{"id":78987,"date":"2017-02-16T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e07f17dcbc723c436203d20beae63f25"},"modified":"2017-02-16T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:14:00","slug":"news-story-further-decisions-on-reviews-of-marking-reviews-of-moderation-and-appeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78987","title":{"rendered":"News story: Further decisions on reviews of marking, reviews of moderation, and appeals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Ofqual has today (16 February) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/changes-to-regulations-for-enquiries-and-appeals\">announced a number of decisions<\/a> about the future arrangements for reviews of marking, reviews of moderation, and appeals services.<\/p>\n<p>The exams regulator for England announced in July 2016 a number of decisions related to how it intended to make the systems schools and colleges use to challenge GCSE, AS and A level results in England clearer, more consistent, and fairer for all students. Today\u2019s decisions were deferred at that time so that more evidence could be gathered about their potential impact.<br \/>\nIn light of feedback from a range of stakeholders, Ofqual has decided:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>to introduce the requirement for exam boards to make marked GCSE scripts available to centres, before their deadline for requesting a review of marking, for the summer 2020 exam series onwards<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>to introduce the requirement for exam boards to provide the reasons for review of marking decisions automatically for the summer 2020 exam series onwards<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>to introduce the requirement for exam boards to grant learners the ability to request results of centre-marked assessments for the summer 2018 exam series onwards<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>to defer implementation of the removal of automatic grade protection that currently applies, following a review of moderation for at least two years. During this time, we will review the approaches exam boards take to moderation before deciding whether to remove this protection<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ofqual has announced requirements for key dates for the completion of reviews and appeals. These will ensure common, minimum timelines for centres and students.<\/p>\n<p>A final decision regarding extending the grounds for appeal will be taken later this Spring once analysis of a pilot study has been completed. Official statistics on GCSE, AS and A level result appeals will be published on 21 March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Ofqual has also launched a <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surveygizmo.com\/s3\/3316586\/OfqualSurvey\">survey for teachers about their experience of the review of marking and moderation services<\/a> (formerly known as EARs).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changes to arrangements for reviews and appeals in GCSEs, AS and A levels<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78993,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78987\/revisions\/78993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}