Results: Anyone admitting to crazy algorithm uplift?

[vellvellvell]

Just reading about a student being bizarrely upgraded from a 1 to an 8 and wondering if anyone here had seen any strange uplifts in grades? ... www.tes.com/news/watch-gcse-2020-bizarre-rises-moderated-grades

@Revengeofthepangolins

Back on main topic, does anyone know why they kept the moderation at all for gcse (I believe it ended up as best of both). Surely by definition the only time a result was moderated up (so the only moderation still retained) would be if there had been strong cohorts at that school in the past but the teachers didn't think this candidate would perform like their historic peers ? Why should that grade be moved up?

Probably because they'd already said the higher would apply with the A-Levels.

@iolaus

How do people know what was algorithm and what was CAG?

Our school went for full transparency and correlated all the results on one page. We had Teacher Predicted, CAG and Exam Board. My sons results remained the same across every subject accept for Eng Lit where the algorithm marked him down by one grade.

Yup. My son got a 6 in science when the highest in that level was a 5. Doesn’t effect what he plans to do going forward but strange

Why did they do it? They should have just done it on teachers grades
Surely they must have seen this?

Schools Still Used the Abandoned Algorithm.

Up to 1,900 schools still used a similar algorithm to the one the government abandoned due to "too many significant inconsistent and unfair outcomes". 1,900 schools sent their CAGs to FFT Datalab who sent back to them, information about how many grades to change to fit their school's 2019 data. 1,000 schools sent them to FFT again to further check their CAGs.

I'm writing to FFT, my MP, Ofqual, my school, exam boards, any journalist whose written about the algorithm. I suggest you share this information and do the same. My child's grades were at or lower than his most recent sustained, attainment grades.

Grades should have been, per Ofqual, "[a CAG] which represented the grade that student would have been most likely to achieve if teaching and learning had continued and student had taken their exams as planned."
AND
"Working At Grades" as well as "Target Grades" (FFT Target Data) were not to be used as per Ofqual, "note that these centre assessment grades [CAGs] are not the same as - working at grades (the grade a student is currently working at) [and] - target grades". Rather, the DfE and Ofqual stated when determining CAGs to use "student's knowledge, skills and abilities in relation to the subject. This evidence should inform teachers' professional judgements about each student's likely performance at the time of the exam."; "those judgements should be holistic, based on the range of evidence that schools and colleges have. So students shouldn't worry about one disappointing mock exam result"; "performance over the course of study"; "review data, classwork, bookwork"; "performance on any class or homework assessments"; "signed off by at least 2 teachers [or an equal] in that subject .... [stating] fairly represent the grades".

Please see the following: ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2020/06/gcse-results-2020-a-look-at-the-grades-proposed-by-schools/?fbclid=IwAR1i6OB4gEvjEcBa4yCWW9xYW83S5EM1K2WiWanh-BKoqTpo1Q0V2Z9-V1g

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