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Download full textGill, Tim – Cambridge Assessment, 2020
The aim of this research was to determine the standard that was effectively applied to General Certificates of Secondary Education (GCSE) and A levels in June 2020 by the decision to accept the maximum of the centre-assessed grade and the calculated grade. The data for this analysis came from the results tables for GCSEs and A levels in 2019 and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grades (Scholastic), Secondary Education, Exit Examinations
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Direct linkChamberlain, Suzanne – Research in Education, 2008
For a multitude of reasons candidates do not always complete all assessments in the examinations they are entered for. Using examination data across a range of GCSE specifications offered by the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, this article details the impact of "unaccepted" absence on educational attainment, and explores absence…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Outcomes of Education, Educational Attainment, Exit Examinations
Shayer, Michael; Ginsburg, Denise; Coe, Robert – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: "Volume & Heaviness" was one of three Piagetian tests used in the CSMS survey in 1975/76. However unlike psychometric tests showing the Flynn effect--that is with students showing steady improvements year by year requiring tests to be restandardized--it appeared that the performance of Y7 students has recently been…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Females, Males, Intelligence
