Subject: Re: gcse controlled assessment - method or madness?
We have been aware of the potential nightmare of controlled assessments for over a year now and have had many discussions about how to get round it/cope with it. I've also mentioned it to many people outside my school at all levels and in both sectors. There seemed to be a lack of concern. Only now does it seem that people are waking up to the reality. Our solution? IGCSE - no controlled assessment.
Roger Loxley
Director of Studies
RGS Newcastle
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Subject: Re: gcse controlled assessment - method or madness?
A timely post as just this week it has suddenly dawned on our school that
there may be a whole swathe of subjects that require supervised access to IT
rooms so that students can use ICT to create their coursework under
supervised conditions.
SMT are saying that coursework does not necessarily need a computer and they
are right but a return to pen paper and compass to generate graphs to
illustrate a key finding of research eg market share fills me with concern
The link for the regulations is
http://www.qca.org.uk/libraryAssets/media/GCSE_Controlled_Assessment_Regulat
ions_February_2008_QCA-08-3512.pdf With a separate section on Business
studies and business-related subjects on page 14.The 4 pages of regulations.
I am sure this thread will generate some discussion. I am currently not sure
what is required or the implications. Thank goodness for erudite colleagues
on this list :-)
Regards
Richard Young
Director of ICT & Business Education
Deputy Head of Sixth Form (Year 12)
Wood Green School Woodstock Road Witney OX28 1DX
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Subject: gcse controlled assessment - method or madness?
hello
most of you are probably aware that the new qca regulations for gcse applied
business include 60% ‘controlled assessment’ – they also say that ‘research
may be completed under limited supervision’ i.e. teachers will only be
expected
to enforce a ‘low level of control’ because ‘some work may be completed
without direct supervision and will not contribute directly to assessable
outcomes’
i understand the practicalities of controlling ‘where and when’ some of the
research is completed – however the assumption that such research may not
directly affect the student’s submitted work [and therefore warrants a
lesser
degree of control] is a little naive at its best, and quite foolhardy at its
worst –
a relaxed approach to the supervision of research would only serve to
encourage the incidents of plagiarism that riddled the predecessor to this
new
system
the qca’s efforts to introduce a sliding scale of assessment control is
quite
admirable, but i can’t help wondering if the underlying motivation is
clearly
known to themselves [let alone made clear to the rest of the business-
teaching community] – is this just a way of formally recognising that we had
little control over the research stage in the past, and formally accepting
that
we will continue to have little control over it in the future?
comments please!
TJ
business lecturer [cheshire]
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