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A complaint against the Harris Academy Beckenham, in south London, has been lodged with the exams regulator Ofqual claiming that there is a "drastic discrepancy" between the grades awarded for coursework marked internally by teachers – especially for the paper's speaking and listening section – and the externally marked written exam at the end of the course.
The body may remain erotic, sexual, desired, desiring, but it is well votive: marked, written over in a text of stroke and gesture discovered by my creative female will".
We chose, a priori, to conduct separate meta-analyses for postgraduate and undergraduate assessments; machine marked written and practical clinical assessments; and pass/fail outcomes.
9 51 52 The separate analysis of machine marked written assessments and practical assessments allowed us to investigate possible effects of examiner bias and verbal communication skills on ethnic differences in attainment.
Separate meta-analyses of undergraduate assessments (d=−0.42; P<0.001), postgraduate assessments (d=−0.38; P<0.001), machine marked written assessments (d=−0.35; P<0.001), practical clinical assessments (d=−0.42; P<0.001), assessments with pass/fail outcomes (d=−0.59; P<0.001), and assessments with continuous outcomes (d=−0.38; P<0.001) all showed similar effects in the same direction.
Effects in the same direction and of similar magnitude were found in meta-analyses of undergraduate assessments only, postgraduate assessments only, machine marked written assessments only, practical clinical assessments only, assessments with pass/fail outcomes only, assessments with continuous outcomes only, and in a meta-analysis of white v Asian candidates only.
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We carried out a prospective cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effects of including a brief self-affirmation intervention in the medical school curriculum, using high stakes machine-marked written assessments and OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) assessments as the outcome measures.
This qualitative study describes the processes markers of the described general practice case study undergo when preparing to mark written assessments, describing their ideas, concerns and expectations.
Shortly after the rise in popularity of percentage-based grading systems in the early 1900s, researchers began examining teacher consistency in marking written work by students.
"Strangely reassuring to see the fill-to-line marking," writes Andrew Stephen.
Academics crave "leave" as space to think and to write, unfettered by running departments, advising on policy, poring over accounts, organising conferences, applying for funding, marking, writing lectures, supervising theses and so on.
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