No Multiple Choice

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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…

Leaving Cert exams will not go ahead this summer (RTÉ)

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13 thoughts on “No Multiple Choice

  1. SOQ

    Good news for those who were plodding along all year – bad news for crammers. .

  2. Ingrid Sewage (Royal Doulton Watcher)

    Whole thing sounds like a Higher Maths question

  3. Tinytim

    I hope there is some control in the system to prevent paying your principal for results

  4. Ger

    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.

  5. Maski

    Step 4 – Standardisation using Statistical methods.

    Wonder if private schools will come out with the highest results.

    1. Cian

      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.

  6. Rob_G

    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.

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