This afternoon.
Minister for Education Joe McHugh explains ‘his’ decision to cancel the leaving Cert.
There will be four layers to the calculated grades system:
1) An estimation of scores and rankings by a student’s teacher. The teacher will estimate a percentage mark for each student, and also their ranking compared to classmates. This will happen for each individual subject.
2) This will then be subjected to an in-school alignment process, in which subject teachers will work together to finalise their estimated marks and rankings.
3) The school principal will review and sign off on marks, and may return estimated ranking or marks to teachers for further consideration.
4) A process of national standardisation using statistical methods to ensure a common national standard is applied.
What could possibly go wrong?
Meanwhile…
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Leaving Cert exams will not go ahead this summer (RTÉ)
there’ll be some piss up tonight
Good news for those who were plodding along all year – bad news for crammers. .
I’d have been fecked, I had cramming down to an art form
Bad news if your teacher doesn’t like you
Whole thing sounds like a Higher Maths question
I hope there is some control in the system to prevent paying your principal for results
Another useless minister.
Announces exams will go ahead,definitely. Covid infection rates drop, death rate drops, then aforementioned clueless minister announces exams are cancelled
I really despair for this country, managed by morons.
LeoLad didn’t make the announcement then?
Wait for the legal cases now.
Handy for the kids of teachers that teach them.
That’s why there’s steps 2 and 3
Step 4 – Standardisation using Statistical methods.
Wonder if private schools will come out with the highest results.
Probably.
If I were doing it I would look at the last few years of a school’s results – and if there is are any trends. If a particular school/teacher tends to get 10As, 10Bs, 5Cs and 5Ds each year then I would allocate take the teacher’s ranking and allocate the top 10 students with As…
And it would seem that private schools do better than public.
In other countries exams are going ahead, only in classrooms with 10 pupils per classroom instead of big exam halls; I think that’s what should have happened here, also.