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GCSE results - will the results be published by school?

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Twiningalldaylong · 22/08/2020 08:23

I feel like my son's GCSE results were very fair. He got what he was predicted to get which was also what he got in his mocks. There was one subject where he went down a grade on his predicted and mock result for no apparent reason. His class mates were the same, all felt that it was fair if slightly harsh. We were happy on the day but more annoyed as we started to hear about how inflated the results have been. I also keep.bumping into parents from other schools in town and hearing about all the 9s.
Im just wondering if the results will ever come out in public? I would like to be able to compare the schools in our town and see how many 9s per subject were handed out? Not that we can do anything about it, and I know it will all come out in the wash at A-levels, I'm just interested.

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HPFA · 22/08/2020 22:51

Possibly this school should have kept quiet though:

LVS, ASCOT: The independent day and boarding school is celebrating a good set of results following a challenging year as students receiving grades 9-8 (A equivalent) increased by 26.6 per cent from last year.

Overall, 97.2 per cent of students achieved a 9 – 4 grade, up from 85.7 per cent in 2019.

Principal Christine Cunniffe said: “These are unprecedented times and despite the current situation, we are happy with the results our students have achieved.*

www.sloughexpress.co.uk/gallery/education/160946/gcse-students-in-maidenhead-slough-and-windsor-receive-results-following-week-of-controversy.html

Revengeofthepangolins · 22/08/2020 23:08

@Haskell

A 9 was supposed to be the top 3% of those sitting, so schools shouldn't have been allowed to allocate 9s IMO, only the algorithm. These results won't be published, schools are under no obligation to do so, and there are lots that have been conservative and kept CAGs within expected range from last three years whose results will only be as spectacular/ropey as usual.
But for some schools 9s are predictable - if 51% and 79% of last year's number GCSEs were 9s, as in the case of my two DS's schools, then they can reasonably predict 9s this year.

But you still have the "on the balance of probabilities/ assuming nothing goes wrong problem adding to inflation

Dilworth1234 · 26/08/2020 15:56

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."
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"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

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/909035/6656-2_-_Executive_summary.pdf

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/887018/Summer_2020_Awarding_GCSEs_A_levels_-_Info_for_Heads_of_Centre_22MAY2020.pdf

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