#Ofqual

Jude Enright

judeenright

In defence of @Ofqual they had to design a system for an extraordinary time. They met the government imposed brief - minimum grade inflation, to the timescale set by government

Stephen Meek

StephenMeek52

Interesting that Ofqual is seen in the CH piece as part of the "quangocracy" doing stuff that should be done by DfE. Worth remembering that Ofqual is independent (and accountable

Andy Jolley 🌹

ajjolley

Many of you will have seem my FOI asking @ofqual about @GavinWilliamson claim that lots of schools were entering CAGS of As & BsI revealed that only 14 centres had

Mr McCarey | Holyport College

HolyportHead

The guidance from Ofqual on validity of mock exams makes clear that, for the overwhelming majority of students, the lowest grade they can now expect to receive is their CAG.

Carole Cadwalladr

carolecadwalla

I have an answer!https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1295356798531178496 But first, the context: 'The govt had its own political agenda to keep grade inflation low. And they don't listen to experts. There was no system-level

Lucy Parsons

LucyCParsons

What I don’t get about this whole exams debacle @ofqual @GavinWilliamson is why a really simple check, like comparing the grade produced by the algorithm to the CAG wasn’t made

Andy Jolley 🌹

ajjolley

Anyone remember Gavin Williamson talking about assessed grades at A level, when he claimed “Some schools... have literally put every child in as either an A, an A* or a

Cirian75 #YNWA 62.5% 🇬🇧 25% 🇳🇱 12.5% 🇦🇺

cirian75

So @GavinWilliamson is trying to blame Ofqual for #ALevelsResults exams fiascoNo!It is 100% his and his fellow Tory MP @NickGibbUK's faultI shall now explain why They had a problemKids unable

John Bull

garius

University admissions teams right now. Website/phone and infrastructure teams are all... Russell Group are all over in the corner right now being proper... Meanwhile over in the accomodation office... The

Warwick Mansell

warwickmansell

Legislation passed in 2009 under Labour, with this section left unamended by the coalition under Michael Gove in 2011, effectively required Ofqual to keep national results roughly constant every year.

Alex Ford

apf102

So now @GavinWilliamson has promised free A Level appeals, let's look at how that might work out. Let's take a real student predicted AAA but who ended up with ACC

(((Frances *Cassandra* Coppola)))🕷️

Frances_Coppola

I have to go and do some work in a minute. But before I go, there is one more little gem that I discovered in this algorithm. The grade distribution

Mark Sully

marksully9

@iborganization your consultation with schools this week including a 2 question survey, which failed to ask the most important question. Your two questions focussed on whether the SCHOOL could administer

Tom Richmond

Tom_Richmond

Gavin Williamson has written to Ofqual about their upcoming consultation on this year's exams, and it contains some *ahem* fairly bold aspirations....https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_

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JaneFae

Did Ofqual use "professional" statisticians with experience of the type of question they were asked to answer?Or was this a bunch of folks drawn on for their academic skill and

Jo Maugham

JolyonMaugham

So. Here is yet another public contract awarded to long time associates of Gove and Cummings without any tender process using the exceptional urgency procedure. 1/4https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/20/firm-linked-to-gove-and-cu

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