So how do you take account of the centres who don’t sit SATS when they are likely to be a significant percentage, if not at GCSE, at A level at least. Not least of which because elsewhere in the document it makes reference to NOT standardising the evidence which schools can take into account when making their judgments, as this would mean schools with greater evidence have to use less to match schools which have less.
I knew this would be difficult, but it also says that at present the intention is where the same exam board is concerned that two certificates would be issued, one for the summer and one for the autumn, with all grades, which makes it very difficult as far as I can see. Students effectively will need to revise at full pace all summer in case they don’t make the necessary grade through some arbitrary model applied to their school, even though their assessment of teacher judgements appears to be somewhere between 0.75 and 0.85.
There is mention of teacher bias to boys and science/maths, and girls and English predicted grades. They also mention race and ethnicity. I am concerned about how they are going to arrive at the judgements and I think I am right to be.