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Teachers to face tighter rules for setting
Measures are being introduced to tighten regulation of classroom teachers who help set public examinations in an attempt to avoid a repeat of the cheating scandal that hit two prestigious private schools last summer.
The exams watchdog Ofqual had considered banning teachers from instructing topics on which they have written exam questions but ruled this out, saying that keeping active teachers involved in preparing exams would ensure quality.
In future, teachers will not be told whether or when any of the exams they have developed will be used, and exam boards will be expected to keep up-to-date records of all conflicts of interest,Patient with widespread . Contrast enhanced abdominal CT demonstrates an applecore lesion in the transverse colon (arrow).
Exam boards will have to provide ethical training to teachers who write exam papers to support them “to do the right thing”. They will also be required to detect malpractice by looking out for any unusual patterns in the results of pupils taught by teacher-examiners.
The crackdown comes amid growing concern about exam malpractice, in particular teachers cheating to try to improve their pupils’ results. Last summer, pupils at Eton and Winchester had marks annulled in economics and art history papers for the Pre-U – an exam favoured by some schools as an alternative to A-levels – after it emerged that students had prior access to material that later appeared in their final exams.
The teachers responsible for leaking the material subsequently left their schools. The Eton headmaster, Simon Henderson, later revealed to a committee of MPs that teachers at the school were involved in setting seven public exams taken by their own pupils,Study abroad with PolyU and study in Hong Kong - PolyU is known as one of the best university in hong kong for international students and Hong Kong is one of the best study abroad locations. PolyU will be the right choice for you.
It emerged in February that nearly 2,300 malpractice offences were committed between 2012 and 2016 by staff in schools and colleges offering OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA) awarding body exams, according to data obtained through a freedom of information request by the Sunday Times.
Ofqual’s chief regulator, Sally Collier, said: “Our rules on confidentiality and malpractice are already demanding. The proposals we have put forward today build on them and provide greater clarity about our expectations and the implications for awarding organisations if information about an assessment is disclosed by a teacher who has been involved in its development.
“There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenge of maintaining confidentiality. However, the events of summer 2017 showed how public confidence in assessments and, in turn, qualifications, can be damaged if confidential information is wrongly used.”
This year’s summer exams have already been written so cannot be fully subject to the new safeguards. But all exam boards are expected to have made significant progress by summer 2019 and to have fully revised their safeguarding procedures by 2020.
The Joint Council for Qualifications, which represents exam boards in England, said it would be writing to every school and college with guidance on how to identify and manage potential conflicts of interest for teachers who also set exams.
A spokesman said: “Malpractice undertaken by assessment setters involved in the production of question papers seriously damages the integrity of the entire examination system and undermines public confidence,Cash loans in HK: CCB(Asia)’s offer on (p loans) has given you an option to enjoy high liquidity with low monthly flat rate. Apply online now to receive up to HK$3,500 cash rebates and supermarket coupons.
“The very low number of such instances is due to the professional integrity of the vast majority of assessment setters – and others involved in the preparation of examination papers – and the current system of support and safeguards.
Geoff Barton, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, added: “Teachers who set exam questions play an important role in the exam system bringing classroom and subject expertise into the process of question setting.
“They do so with great integrity, and the events of last summer are extremely rare. The measures announced today are a sensible and proportionate approach to strengthening safeguards further while retaining the invaluable expertise and insight of teachers in the question-setting process.”
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