Can Teachers Enter Candidates Appropriately for Examinations Involving Differentiated Papers?
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Educational Studies
- Vol. 14 (3) , 289-297
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0305569880140305
Abstract
The ability of teachers to enter candidates for appropriate combinations of differentiated papers is considered. The results of experimental work suggest that teachers would be able to predict their pupils’ examination performance accurately enough to enter almost all pupils at appropriate levels of such examinations; and that they would be able to do this as early as the January preceding the examination. However, they will be able to enter candidates effectively only if the standards required for the overlapping grades are the same at all levels of an examination. There is some evidence to suggest that this condition may not always hold. In addition, results from some Joint 16+ examinations suggest that there may be a considerable number of inappropriate entries to GCSE examinations which use differentiated papers.Keywords
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