There are several levels of significance in what has come to be known on Twitter and elsewhere as the “GCSE fiasco”.
Of greatest importance is the significance for the individual students whose futures may be adversely affected by the GCSE grade decisions.
Then there is the significance for schools and colleges, not only in terms of league table scores but also in the entry arrangements for post-16 courses.
There is significance for teachers, whose students achieved lower grades than they predicted. For many years, the more experienced teachers have been predicting their students’ results with a good degree of accuracy – and suddenly they learn that their predictions are too high. And teachers, having worked to raise student aspirations, care about what their students have achieved too.
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