{"id":83586,"date":"2017-08-22T07:28:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T07:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=6483d39894ae284e1ce6d3f7b54c52d5"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:28:43","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T07:28:43","slug":"news-story-response-to-daily-telegraph-story-on-new-gcse-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=83586","title":{"rendered":"News story: Response to Daily Telegraph story on new GCSE grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Today\u2019s Daily Telegraph (22 Aug) contains both inaccurate and misleading statements in relation to new GCSEs. The assessment of new GCSEs has been designed to support 9 to 1 grading and we have not \u2018warned\u2019 about their use as suggested. The Ofqual report cited is not a commentary on the new grades and the selected excerpts within the story are taken completely out of context.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Michelle Meadows, Executive Director, Strategy, Risk and Research said: \u201cNew GCSEs have been designed from first principles to deliver better differentiation on the new 9 to 1 grading scale. The new GCSE exams and mark schemes have been created to support the increase in the number of grades, with better spread of grade boundaries and reliable assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement in relation to misleading story ahead of GCSE results<\/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\/83586"}],"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=83586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}