Media coursework moderated from A* to a D

[FancyBird]

DD got an A* grade by her teacher and after receiving results, this dropped to a D. Her teacher has left, and I am wondering how this grade could drop by so much. The school does not want to get it remarked as they say they would have to remark the entire class' work. Is this a thing? What can I do?

@FrippEnos What was the outcome?

This was all pre submission to the exam board.

The outcome was that the exam board rep had to go back to the exam board, then come back to us a clarify the marking scheme.
They then has a series of webinars to make sure that the information was available to all the schools.

Even though we were not the only school to do this they didn't even put the mark submission date back

Yes, but a change that big would not have been the decision of one moderator. When I was moderating, a change that big would have required it to go up the chain (moderator, team leader etc…) until 2 moderators got the same mark (in tolerance). Therefore, a change that big would have had at least two moderators agreeing the standard, one of which would be more senior. There’s different rules for different boards / papers etc, but for large mark adjustments the process is quite robust.

@meimum is there anything we can do?

Surely the school have to accept some responsibility for a teacher who was clearly incompetent. A similar thing happened to my daughter - and the school actually asked for a remark. It was with AQA. Only her paper was re-marked and the school paid. The re-mark was better by a grade and meant she could go to the uni of her choice.

It’s not really the teacher. I marked coursework 25 years. Apart from the 2 years where the moderators decided to be bastards my results were always outstanding.

Its not teacher incompetence.

Marking coursework is hard and you don’t get much training.

Hi, has anyone had any experience with AQA and NEA work being marked down. My daughter had 2 subjects mismarked this summer. We paid for a review of marking in both subjects. One came back identifying a mismark of 8 marks and the other subject was mismarked by 18 marks. The NEA has also been downgraded by 6 marks. AQA has said that they use a line of regression which I can only see penalises the highest achievers and benefits the lower achievers. I have asked they mark her coursework independently but they have refused. I am not happy and wondered if anyone else has had a similar experience.

Exam boards deal with NEA at a cohort level. If they've used regression, it's because the whole lot was too highly awarded and it's brought them all into line with the standard.

@Dancedad13 You might be best starting your own thread

This is my arguament, the same exam board also missed 18 marks off one paper and 8 off another subject. I do not trust them in the slightest. Hopefully they will be fined again for their poor quality.

When I was at school a friend of mine was in a car crash getting to her second exam for English. She missed the exam but had to be kept in isolation. Later on the same day a senior examiner rang her and quizzed her about the paper she had missed. She got an A in her first paper an A for her coursework but only a B for the missed paper and this was before there were any A*'s. She thought herself lucky to end up with a high B due to completely missing a paper.