During the recent Easter break, Ofqual published an interesting consultation about the awarding of examination grades. In brief, the proposal seems to be that we should return to the old model of norm-referenced grading rather than continuing with our current criteria-referenced system.
For any readers who are too young to have experienced norm-referencing or old enough to have wiped it from memory, may I remind you of the essential difference between these systems.
Norm-referencing involved allocating a fixed proportion of grades in advance, following a statistical bell-curve, for example with a pre-determined five per cent or so achieving the highest and lowest grades and a normal distribution between them.
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