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Robust assessment data for confidently generating centre assessed grades

January 26, 2021February 10, 2021Oxford Science Team

Public examinations are another casualty of the pandemic.  The 2020 cohort saw centre assessed grades generated, by using the full range of available evidence to generate a fair and objective judgement of the grade each student would have got if the exams had been sat, along with a rank order of students [1].  This information […]

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Making the most of GCSE past papers, mark schemes and examiners’ reports

April 15, 2015March 16, 2016Oxford Geography Team
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As a GCSE Geography examiner, I often feel that examination board websites are designed in ways to support teachers rather than students. As a result, many teachers download past papers, mark schemes and examiners’ reports to their own VLE or choose to point students in the right direction via specific web links. However, we still […]

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