Evidence for Centre assessed grades

Evidence for Centre assessed grades

JCQ have sent out a press release for centres. How they should treat candidate’s work for the summer of 2021 series. We feel it would be useful for stakeholders to understand how JCQ are treating evidence.

Gcses, as and a levels guidance for centre assessed grades

RETENTION OF CANDIDATES’ WORK FOR THE SUMMER 2021 SERIES

Where possible, all evidence on which a candidate’s grade is based including copies of the candidate’s work and any mark records is retained safely.

This will be needed to support determination of students’ grades and the internal and external quality assurance processes and appeals.

It is not a requirement that the copy retained is the original version, and a scanned copy of handwritten evidence or digital document will be acceptable.

Centres must retain any information relating to a candidate’s access arrangements, or personal circumstances affecting candidate performance, which might need to be taken into account during the process of determining a student’s grade. Records of student evidence should be kept accessible in order that it can be easily drawn upon in the event a student wishes to appeal their grade.

As teachers will not yet have made any final decisions about the range of evidence on which

candidates’ grades will be based, all candidate work and mark records for assessments should be retained for the time being. They might later be selected to form part of the final evidence base.

If some evidence of candidates’ work is not available (e.g. because it was from earlier in the course and evidence was not retained at that point), the marks can still be used in determining the final grade, and the evidence that is available can be considered by the awarding organisations if the candidate decides to appeal on the grounds of the grade being unreasonable based on the evidence provided.