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SUMMARY:Should we bother with expert judgement in awarding GCSEs and A lev
 els? - Dr Neil Stringer and Dr Chris Wheadon (Assessment and Qualification
 s Alliance)\, Beth Black and Nat Johnson (OCR)
DTSTART:20121204T163000Z
DTEND:20121204T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This forum aims to promote discussion around a key debate in t
 he process of awarding GCSE and A level grades – the ‘statistics versu
 s judgement’ debate.\n\nNeil Stringer and Chris Wheadon will argue for a
 n increased statistical approach in awarding\, proposing ‘contextualised
  cohort referencing’ whereby national outcomes (i.e. percentages of stud
 ents) in GCSE are pegged to fixed outcomes in English and Maths GCSE. Grou
 nds for this approach are posited in terms of the imprecision of expert ju
 dgement\, preventing grade creep and maintaining a more tangible\, tightly
  defined concept of standards.\n\nNat Johnson and Beth Black will argue th
 at\, while the role of statistics is important\, the expert judgement of s
 enior examiners provides a number of crucial functions in respect to stand
 ard maintaining year on year. The involvement of the senior examiners as r
 epresentatives of the teaching profession legitimises where and how the st
 andards are set\, endorsing the standard in relation to the actual quality
  of the examinee work. The speakers will discuss how different models of h
 arnessing expert judgement can help increase the rigour as well as the tra
 nsparency of and public confidence in the awarding process.\n
LOCATION:Downing College\, Regent Street\, Cambridge\, UK
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