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Understanding and establishing standards in qualifications - the use of rank ordering
Despite early origins, these scaling methods have been introduced into the world of assessment relatively recently, and have the potential to lead to exciting innovations in several aspects of the assessment process.
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Building a Better History Curriculum (11-19)
As the Secretary of State for Education prepares to revise the History curriculum, teachers and historians will gather at a one-day conference in October to debate ideas for a revised curriculum.
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New Chief Executive for OCR
Cambridge Assessment has appointed Mark Dawe as the new Chief Executive of its UK awarding body Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations (OCR). Mark, who is currently the Principal and Chief Executive of Oaklands College in Hertfordshire, takes over the role 1st November from Clara Kenyon who has been Acting Chief Executive following the departure of Greg Watson in July 2010.
GCSE modularisation – one size does not fit all
The state-directed “one size fits all” approach to the modularisation of GCSEs was wrong, according to new research which reveals that some subjects are better suited to this form of assessment than others and that it affects boys and girls differently.
