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Direct linkBenton, Tom; Elliott, Gill – Research Papers in Education, 2016
In recent years the use of expert judgement to set and maintain examination standards has been increasingly criticised in favour of approaches based on statistical modelling. This paper reviews existing research on this controversy and attempts to unify the evidence within a framework where expertise is utilised in the form of comparative…
Descriptors: Reliability, Expertise, Mathematical Models, Standard Setting (Scoring)
Benton, Tom – Oxford Review of Education, 2015
A key predictor of young people's future outcomes is their level of academic achievement whilst at school. In England this is most commonly measured by achievement in GCSEs. However, not all pupils will have taken the same set of GCSE examinations as, for example, they may make different subject choices. For this reason, GCSE performance is often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Exit Examinations, Models
Carroll, Matthew; Benton, Tom – Cambridge Assessment, 2018
The purpose of this report is to compare individual pupil achievement on two high profile sets of assessments in England: the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). The research in this report will add to well-documented differences between PISA and GCSEs to look at the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Profiles, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests
Carroll, Matthew; Benton, Tom – Cambridge Assessment, 2018
The purpose of this report is to compare individual pupil achievement on two high profile sets of assessments in England: the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). The research in this report will add to well-documented differences between PISA and GCSEs to look at the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement, Exit Examinations, Scores
