Assessment
The latest news and analysis on exams in the UK, including key dates, timetables, results and statistics for Sats, GCSEs and A levels
Tuesday
13th Apr 2021
SQA: ‘No requirement to replicate full formal exams’
SQA insists that there should not be ‘one-off, high-stakes’ assessments this year after exams were cancelled
Banned: Teacher who changed students’ coursework
Teacher who admitted altering his students’ coursework before submitting it to exam board is banned from profession
No Sats...and pupils and teachers are happier for it
Chris Dyson has noticed something unusual among staff and Year 6 pupils since Sats were cancelled – they’re having fun
Friday
9th Apr 2021
Sugata Mitra: PhD-style vivas should replace exams
Asking students to discuss their learning would be a more reliable form of assessment than exams, suggests Sugata Mitra
Exclusive GCSEs 2021: Old questions ‘may not be unfair’
Board defends recycled questions for this year’s A levels and GCSEs saying advanced sight will ‘not necessarily create an unfair advantage’
Wednesday
7th Apr 2021
Teachers back GCSE reform ‘to restore love of learning’
‘Exam factory culture’ causing mental health crisis and driving teachers form schools, conference told
Teachers to devise alternative to ‘toxic’ Sats
NEU delays plans to ballot for a boycott of high-stakes primary school assessments
‘Saying there’s no need for exams lets down schools’
Yesterday, Nicola Sturgeon said there is no requirement for exams this year – here’s why teachers are outraged, writes this school leader