ofqual consult on non exam assessments
📅 May 14, 2021
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Ofqual have launched a consultation on the value and requirement of course work. Ie. Non Exam assessments. Here at the Private exam candidate web site we strongly believe there should be no formal non exam assessment. Why: This inevitably ties candidates to schools and colleges. Limiting their choice of where they take exams. It makes schools worry about assessment rather than actual teaching and puts huge stress of other part of a school's complex job.
See below for The Ofqual press release:
Consultation description We are consulting on the arrangements for non-exam assessment (NEA) and fieldwork activities in some GCSE, AS and A level subjects that will be undertaken by students taking exams in summer 2022. We are making our proposal in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
We are seeking views on our proposal that we carry forward changes agreed for summer 2021 for some subjects to take account of any public health restrictions relating to coronavirus (COVID-19) that might be in place during the next academic year. While this consultation does not include science we would hope they would look at the science course work requirements.
This consultation covers:
non-exam assessments in dance, design and technology, drama (and theatre), film studies, food preparation and nutrition, media studies, music, music technology, and physical education (PE) fieldwork activities in geography, geology and environmental science assessment of speaking skills in GCSE modern foreign languages (MFL) assessment of spoken language in GCSE English language We are seeking views specifically on arrangements for the GCSE, AS and A level subjects set out above, and would invite respondents to confine responses to this consultation to those subjects only.
We are not seeking views on other subjects at this time, although we recognise that students, teachers and exam boards may have views about them. Further information and, where necessary, consultations on any proposed changes to other GCSE, AS or A levels will follow.
We will read all responses to this consultation, but will not include in our analysis any responses about subjects that are not the focus of this consultation.
Link to the press release: