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Re: A-level and GCSE results fiasco.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Agreed. Did she not think to tell her staff to actually test the algorithm before approving it? Very careless and unprofessional. Ofqual assured ministers that the algorithm was robust. Were they supposed to disbelieve their advisors? Of course not. She had to go.
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Gavin Williamson was personally told in JULY that the exam grade system was flawed but carried on anyway - as minister insists algorithm did NOT unfairly downgrade poorer pupils despite it being scrapped...
... Sir Jon is also reported to have written to Mr Williamson, the Education Secretary, in July to warn that the Ofqual algorithm, would only be 75 per cent accurate at best when applied to GCSE and A-Level grading.
In his letter Sir Jon also said that using predicted grades for some small groups of students while using the algorithm for large groups would cause unfairness.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-warnings.html
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