Transcription of Functional Skills Pass Grade Boundaries - All Levels
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Pearson Functional Skills | Grade Boundaries | August Pearson 2021 Functional Skills Pass Grade Boundaries Sawtooth and COVID and Pass Marks What is the Sawtooth Effect? It is generally recognised that as a reformed qualification becomes more established over time, factors such as familiarity, greater availability of professional development and support resources, increased teacher confidence, greater numbers of past papers and so on, can all contribute to improvements in cohort performance. The converse of this is that when new qualifications are introduced, there can often be a dip in cohort performance. This is often referred to as the Sawtooth Effect . To take into consideration the Sawtooth Effect in the reformed qualification and to ensure learners were not disadvantaged, Grade Boundaries in the first few tests were set lower. The expectation was that as we moved out of the saw-tooth effect (which would be evidenced through inspection of learner work at awarding), Grade Boundaries would be raised to reflect the normal level of performance attainment that would be expected of a pass learner.
not disadvantaged, grade boundaries in the first few tests were set lower. The expectation was that as we moved out of the saw-tooth effect (which would be evidenced through inspection of learner work at awarding), grade boundaries would be raised to reflect the normal level of performance attainment that would be expected of a pass learner.
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