The reforms, which switch the emphasis from coursework marked by teachers to end-of-course exams, will start to put pressure on exam boards to recruit extra teachers from next year – with the full impact being felt by 2019.
Just as Ms. Serrano was nearing the end of her coursework, she fell behind in her day care payments.
e-Portfolios are ideal for supporting coursework and end-of-course assessments.
Gove's reforms were designed to toughen up the A-levels, moving away from coursework towards end-of-course examinations.
From 2015, there will be a return to end-of-course exams and less coursework in GCSE English, geography, history, maths and the sciences.
Michael Gove's "reforms" would reinstate the single end-of-course exam, with no coursework, which must adversely effect some female students.
The data in 2014 showed little change in the pattern of results by male and female students, despite the shift from coursework towards end-of-course exams, thought by some to favour boys.
The A-level changes call for the end of assessing "modular" chunks of learning, and a return to a "linear" form, with exams at the end of the course - but Ofqual says this will not necessarily mean an end to coursework in A-levels.
The government is stressing the need to prepare students for further and higher education, as well as employment, so they want to downgrade assessed coursework in favour of end-of-course exams.
In addition, one in four schools (24 per cent) said they expected fewer pupils to opt for A-levels as they felt the switch from coursework to a final end-of-course exam would make it too hard for them.
