Sentence examples for marking of papers from inspiring English sources

Officials began considering contingency plans to delay publication of results last August after the OCR examination board was reported to be far behind in its marking of papers in England.

That is why Ofqual works with exam boards to ensure they have sufficient capacity to make sure the marking of exam papers is prompt and accurate".

Teenagers who took GCSE English and English language exams in England and Wales this summer are to be offered special resits in November despite the exam regulator Ofqual saying there was no problem with the marking of their June papers.

The results obtained fell into three main sections: 1. Markers' appreciation of the inherent subjectivity of the marking of 'essay' style papers, and their concerns to mark reliably.

Jeyaretnam argued that since "the marking of a ballot paper is an expression of the voter", the right to vote is protected by the freedom of expression clause set out in Article 14 of the Constitution of Singapore.

Peer calibration prior to marking a written paper that does not involve meeting and discussing marking interpretation has been described [ 18, 19], but we would advocate face to face structured peer review following the initial marking of a small sample of papers.

The company responsible for the marking of 600,000 pupils' Sats papers appeared to blame its own markers' equipment last week for problems that, we are told, had the system almost grinding to a halt.

The DfE had outsourced the marking of key stage 2 Sats papers to Pearson, the multinational educational publisher, which previously published the test answers only after the tests had been taken.

The neatly marked boxes of papers will go in the second-floor study.

Tolkien himself described the day in the early nineteen-thirties when, in the midst of marking examination papers, he came to a blank page and scribbled on it, "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit".

It was considered that the most appropriate way to explore the contextual issues of marking subjective papers, was to adopt a qualitative approach.