am_zarathustra wrote: » Is it a very niche subject you are teaching? Normally you'd get a few people in your subject association with experience correcting. I'd also recommend correcting one year for your own sake, it will give you a much better grounding.
Choochtown wrote: » ... and remember if you guess a student a H2 and they sit the exam and get a H6 the Department will not use that H6 to mark down your "predicted" grade ... ... yeah sure!
Leftwaffe wrote: » Does anyone know when teachers will get the levels from the portal?
Bobtheman wrote: » So will our accredited grades be touched?
Random sample wrote: » Yes, in relation to the curve and the national average. Not in relation to the written exam results of a student.
History Queen wrote: » Has anyone heard back about correcting? I applied this year after a break of 4 years but I didn't hear back. Can I assume at this stage that I won't? And yes I know I can contact the SEC directly to enquire, I just can't remember when you usually get confirmation.
Bobtheman wrote: » I stayed away from this thread as I still find the whole thing farcical. Accredited grades. I have never corrected LC exams. But yet I'm to come up with a grade for a new exam format? I also assume a bell curve will operate?. So if I think Johnny average will get between. 60 - 70 in the new exam - do I inflate to guard against their possible deflation? Kids can surprise you on the day. Plus the lowering of standards can surprise you on the day.
Teach30 wrote: » I have never marked LC and do my best to grade accurately however I will say that despite following a pre- paper marking scheme for one assessment I was still unsure if students were giving enough information for answers as the scheme only give bullet points and key words they should use. I definitely found myself giving students marks despite being unsure if they would get them, I couldn’t be listening to them complain. I’m not the only one doing this! Heard also of colleagues being asked to give a grade for work done on a project submitted in 5th year and they have no record of what students would have got as they are sent off to be corrected, so giving them all top marks for it. Madness.
wirelessdude01 wrote: » I'm primary but I think you need to be more professional in your approach. Give them the grade that they deserve, not one to give you an easy live and appease students and parents.
am_zarathustra wrote: » I'd also recommend correcting one year for your own sake, it will give you a much better grounding.
Leftwaffe wrote: » At risk of being annoying but interviewers and the aide haven’t been paid yet for the orals in our school. Has there been definitive payment documents released for this? I called and was told last Tuesday that they’d be out by Wednesday or Thursday
DubLad69 wrote: » Yes, payment forms have been released for both and are on the schools section of examinations.ie I would suspect that most schools will make the payments for both after all of the exams are completed.
Treppen wrote: » Do you know the timeline as to when the adjustment of accredited grades by the SEC will finish?
Random sample wrote: » Interviewers have all been paid in my school. No idea about the aide, but she’s doing lcvp too, so I don’t know if she’ll get all in one go.
Bobtheman wrote: » If I give a student 80 and he gets 64 in the exam - will the department then drag my accredited grade down?? At what stage is the accredited grade finalised??
RealJohn wrote: » You would hope they wouldn’t do it on student by student basis but it would make sense to look at students’ exam performance versus their teachers’ invented grades and adjust the overall invented grades accordingly. If you’ve only got one student wrong, that student might have had a bad day at the exam, and shouldn’t affect how your grading is viewed, overall. If all of your students go down 10-15% in the exam (or do so on average), then your invented grades should be adjusted accordingly, but for that, they might also have to look at everyone else’s invented grades too, because if that was a national trend, you could say that it was some sort of Covid related effect, and that the invented grades might be an accurate reflection of what they would have got, but for the disruption to their education for the last year. Who knows though? They’ll be adjusted to fit what they want them to look like anyway.
