Monday 28 October 2013

Grade inflation claim at Harris Academy

From the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/insider-claims-top-academy-inflated-grades-8846573.html

" A flagship academy is facing allegations that teachers inflated their pupils' GCSE coursework marks in this summer's English exams.

"A complaint against the Harris Academy Beckenham, in south London, has been lodged with the exams regulator Ofqual claiming that there is a "drastic discrepancy" between the grades awarded for coursework marked internally by teachers – especially for the paper's speaking and listening section – and the externally marked written exam at the end of the course."

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