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Aug 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@chrischirp@mikegalsworthy 1/4 Met up with an old pal today - smart fella.
We were talking about the #OFQUAL #AlevelResults fiasco. What neither of us could understand is why they standardised against previous performance of schools which tells you nothing about individuals.
2/4 If they really can't trust teachers' predicted grades (which seems ridiculous), surely they have significant previous performance data for the majority of pupils in the shape of their GCSE results (or even KS2 stats). As a normalising variable, this gives much richer data
