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Download full textTom Bramley; Carmen Vidal Rodeiro; Frances Wilson – Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2024
Traditionally in England, exam results in General Certificates of Secondary Education (GCSEs) (and before them O levels) and A levels have been reported as letter grades, with A (or A*) as the top grade, then B, C etc. The reforms gave the opportunity to revisit the arguments for different formats of reporting, and Cambridge Assessment contributed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Rating Scales, Scoring Formulas
Direct linkKelly, Anthony – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
The COVID pandemic and the cancellation of state examinations caused unprecedented turmoil in the education systems on both sides of the Irish Sea. As the policy of calculating grades using purpose-built algorithms came undone in the face of a barrage of appeal, protest and legal action, the context in which the policies had been devised…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Scoring Formulas, Testing, COVID-19
Handley, Fiona J. L.; Read, Ann – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2017
In 2011, Southampton Solent University, a post-1992 university in southern England, introduced a new marking scheme with the aims of changing marking practice to achieve greater transparency and consistency in marking, and to ensure that the full range of marks was being awarded to students. This paper discusses the strategic background to the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Grading, Strategic Planning, Evaluation Methods
Doyle, Ann – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2008
This article evaluates PISA 2000 as a resource for providing information on educational attainment and inequality, focusing on France and England. Going beyond pupils' performance, it assesses levels of educational inequality by examining distributions of scores and the relationship between socio-economic status and performance. This review raises…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
Peer reviewedGreen, J. R.; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1981
A simple unbalanced block model is proposed for examination marks, as an improvement on the usual implicit model. The new model is applied to some real data and is found, by the usual normal linear theory F test, to give a highly significant improvement. Some alternative models are also considered. (Author)
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Models, Scoring Formulas
Hutchinson, T. P. – 1984
One means of learning about the processes operating in a multiple choice test is to include some test items, called nonsense items, which have no correct answer. This paper compares two versions of a mathematical model of test performance to interpret test data that includes both genuine and nonsense items. One formula is based on the usual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guessing (Tests), Mathematical Models, Multiple Choice Tests
