OCR Marking – again
November 23rd, 2007 | by Mark Holah |
Last month Warwick Mansell, a journalist working for TES, discovered that examiners who were remarking OCR psychology papers were told not to change students’ A-level marks after school or college appeals unless there are overwhelming reasons to do so.
This is of course particularly cruel for those students who had their papers badly marked the first time and damages the trust that psychology teachers have with OCR.
The advice for those examiners remarking said, “When scripts are re-marked, additional marks should be awarded (or marks deducted) only when a demonstrable error is found in the application of the marking scheme. If a degree of subjectivity is involved, very strong grounds are needed to change the original mark. If you are broadly in agreement with the mark, please do not change it.”
Furthermore, a number of teachers have e-mailed me noting that attempts at discussing this on the OCR psychology e-list have been censored.
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