Ofqual consultation : awarding CAGs

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Out today :

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/879627/Exceptional_arrangements_for_exam_grading_and_assessment_in_2020.pdf

Long read. Interesting stuff about how they trust us to rank order and that that may be the most important thing we do.

I am worried about the constant assertion that we predict inaccurately. Does anyone know where they get this from? I have not been asked to submit PGs for donkey's years! It says in here that 1/3 of PGs are too generous. This makes me worry a little bit..

I can now answer my own question. I cannot be alone in thinking this is a shit evidence base:

the teacher estimated grades that were submitted to exam boards to support awarding of GCSEs, AS and A levels prior to 2015. While some of this work is unpublished, it looks at how teacher estimated
grades at both GCSE and A level compare with students’ actual results, and as such is directly relevant to this work
• predicted A level grades used for university entry. While these predictions only cover A levels, and are made for a different purpose, they nonetheless provide helpful insight into reliability of teacher assessed grades

If we predict inaccurately, we will rank inaccurately. Especially as we are told to use a wide (and differing) evidence base.

I'm actually pretty confident I will rank accurately, but i only have 14 students across 4 grades, so...

According to Ofqual our rank ordering is usually accurate (again, no idea how they know this!).

Rank ordering for coursework maybe. One piece of evidence, clear marking guidelines. This?

Not mentioned in the report as a source of info. they don't care about coursework!