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In evidence to the Commons education select committee, David Leitch, a supervisor working for OCR's parent body, Cambridge Assessment, says that senior OCR managers tried to stop further checks being carried out on the accuracy of examiners' marks after he and colleagues found 300 students' scripts containing basic mistakes in markers' adding-up.
Taking all of the examiners' marks together, 8% were 'Clear fail', 27% were 'Fail', 40% were 'Pass' and 25% were 'Clear Pass'.
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But when multiple examiners mark each bank's performance against others on all manner of parameters, potential weaknesses become easier to detect.
When multiple examiners mark each firm's performance against others on all manner of parameters, potential weaknesses become easier to detect.
Since 2009, the exams regulator Ofqual has adopted a new approach intended to contain grade inflation by comparing examiners' marking of candidates against the performance of that year-group at GCSE, as well as previous years' A-level results.
A spokesperson added: "In broad terms WJEC consider that their examiners marked question papers correctly and accurately.
A rating scale written with reference to the learning outcomes can help examiners mark portfolios consistently [ 14] [see additional file 1].
For the DMH video, in order to capture the maximum number of students, the results from 3 different examiners were included for the analysis, as most students had only one examiner at this station, rather than 2 examiners marking independently.
This table demonstrates that there was considerable variability in examiners' scores in this fully crossed assessment, whereby all examiners marked the same (and all) candidate performances in the recorded OSCE.
PACES was introduced in 2001 to replace a traditional "long-case, short-case, viva" clinical examination, and comprised five stations, each of 20 minutes, in which each candidate was assessed by two senior clinical examiners marking independently [ 6].
A model under development by forensic scientist Cedric Neumann and statistician Christopher Saunders at South Dakota State University in Brookings can estimate a likelihood ratio for prints once a trained examiner marks their similarities (see diagram, above).
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