| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced 15:31 - Aug 11 with 1429 views | Mullet |
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53740588?fbclid=IwAR30PQ0T0h5wq_dagXslvsv
This is a fascinating development. I've kept my mouth shut given the rumours about the English and Welsh results aren't good.
It's A Level on Thursday and GCSE the Thursday after. I wonder if we will see any capitulation or cover-up now? The stuff from the TES and other media wasn't sounding promising for anyone so this will prove very interesting. |  |
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| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 15:37 - Aug 11 with 1382 views | Ftnfwest |
Doesn't his now mean that this years pupils look like geniuses? I've lost the thread of how high they were marked against what the expectation otherwise would have been. |  | | |
| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 15:43 - Aug 11 with 1361 views | Bluefish |
Going to be late in the day to be able to change, the schools have had the results for a couple of weeks |  |
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| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 16:56 - Aug 11 with 1280 views | Mullet |
| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 15:37 - Aug 11 by Ftnfwest |
Doesn't his now mean that this years pupils look like geniuses? I've lost the thread of how high they were marked against what the expectation otherwise would have been. |
Not exactly. But it does open up several ethical dilemmas on both sides.
Why ask and insist teachers spend hours agonising and making decisions if you're not going to honour or even acknowledge that input? Why ensure there is very little reflection of the trends in education other than exam results?
Richer schools weed out weaker students as they go most obviously. But there are all sorts of trends such as kids in poorer schools doing better later in their career. So if you're only going to go off raw numbers it discriminates against them, something which education must not do when it suits the government etc.
It's incredibly complex and this has just chucked a huge spanner in. I'll see if I can find some data if you're interested, but from memory it was the bottom 25% of students economically speaking that had their grades affected generally.
In the coming results it's subjects like Latin which have tiny numbers that were going to be left alone - guess which kids do Latin? | |
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| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 18:52 - Aug 11 with 1223 views | Ftnfwest |
| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 16:56 - Aug 11 by Mullet |
Not exactly. But it does open up several ethical dilemmas on both sides.
Why ask and insist teachers spend hours agonising and making decisions if you're not going to honour or even acknowledge that input? Why ensure there is very little reflection of the trends in education other than exam results?
Richer schools weed out weaker students as they go most obviously. But there are all sorts of trends such as kids in poorer schools doing better later in their career. So if you're only going to go off raw numbers it discriminates against them, something which education must not do when it suits the government etc.
It's incredibly complex and this has just chucked a huge spanner in. I'll see if I can find some data if you're interested, but from memory it was the bottom 25% of students economically speaking that had their grades affected generally.
In the coming results it's subjects like Latin which have tiny numbers that were going to be left alone - guess which kids do Latin? |
Very difficult one tbh. The universities may have a surfeit of Scots in the next few years unless we do the same with results. | | | |
| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 19:08 - Aug 11 with 1204 views | GlasgowBlue |
Fingers crossed 🤞 |  |
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| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 20:14 - Aug 11 with 1158 views | factual_blue |
| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 15:37 - Aug 11 by Ftnfwest |
Doesn't his now mean that this years pupils look like geniuses? I've lost the thread of how high they were marked against what the expectation otherwise would have been. |
Nicely played by Sturgeon. Helps the SNP for the next elections in Scotland, forces boris to an impossible position where he's damned whatever he does.
He should damned in the old-fashioned religious sense in any event. |  |
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| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 20:33 - Aug 11 with 1133 views | WeWereZombies |
| GB - Scottish exam reversal just announced on 18:52 - Aug 11 by Ftnfwest |
Very difficult one tbh. The universities may have a surfeit of Scots in the next few years unless we do the same with results. |
At the moment there is the small matter of fees which will keep most Scottish students in Scottish universities. |  |
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