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How did they deal with this problem in other countries, say Ireland or Japan?

by agent008t 6y ago

makomk 6y ago
It looks to me like Ireland was planning on using literally the exact same process, but after it caused such a political problem for the UK government they announced that data on how schools had previously performed wouldn't be used in the standardisation process: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/education/state_examinations/leaving_certificate_2020_calculated_grades.html https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/education/state_examin... (Notice how the linked explaination document from May 2020 says this would be the basis for the calculated results.) How that's meant to work I'm not sure. The results aren't out yet.
- smcl 6y ago
  Additionally Scotland had an similar issue - algorithmically adjusted grade estimates were discovered to have punished kids from poorer schools. This happened a few weeks earlier than the English A-Level results, which is interesting because the ruling party in the rest of the UK: 1. took a GREAT deal of pleasure in loudly trashing the Scottish government in the press ... 2. knew they faced the EXACT same issue themselves ... 3. did absolutely nothing about it ... 4. then did a frantic cleanup of the attacks (deleting tweets and such) after the English debacle unfolded At this point I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s to be expected - they’re politicians playing their little game. But this debacle was avoidable - they could have faced the music earlier and started coming up with an alternative, but they chose instead to gloat, score a cheap win and kick the metaphorical can down the road.
Barrin92 6y ago
Japan for the most part just continued with their exams as usual. I think they delayed bar exams for a bit, but for the most part school activity has continued throughout the pandemic, disease burden in the country hasn't been that high.

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How did they deal with this problem in other countries, say Ireland or Japan?

by agent008t 6y ago

How did they deal with this problem in other countries, say Ireland or Japan?

makomk 6y ago
It looks to me like Ireland was planning on using literally the exact same process, but after it caused such a political problem for the UK government they announced that data on how schools had previously performed wouldn't be used in the standardisation process: https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/education/state_examinations/leaving_certificate_2020_calculated_grades.html https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/education/state_examin... (Notice how the linked explaination document from May 2020 says this would be the basis for the calculated results.) How that's meant to work I'm not sure. The results aren't out yet.
- smcl 6y ago
  Additionally Scotland had an similar issue - algorithmically adjusted grade estimates were discovered to have punished kids from poorer schools. This happened a few weeks earlier than the English A-Level results, which is interesting because the ruling party in the rest of the UK: 1. took a GREAT deal of pleasure in loudly trashing the Scottish government in the press ... 2. knew they faced the EXACT same issue themselves ... 3. did absolutely nothing about it ... 4. then did a frantic cleanup of the attacks (deleting tweets and such) after the English debacle unfolded At this point I shouldn’t be surprised. It’s to be expected - they’re politicians playing their little game. But this debacle was avoidable - they could have faced the music earlier and started coming up with an alternative, but they chose instead to gloat, score a cheap win and kick the metaphorical can down the road.
Barrin92 6y ago
Japan for the most part just continued with their exams as usual. I think they delayed bar exams for a bit, but for the most part school activity has continued throughout the pandemic, disease burden in the country hasn't been that high.