The at-home exams would then be assessed by teachers. These exams would only be used as an option if the pandemic made it impossible for them to be sat in school. The new Ofqual proposals say that where exams were due to be taken, education boards should make papers available for students to sit at school or college under teacher supervision.
Ofqual has said papers completed at home should be used as part of final assessments for student results.
The final grade given to each pupil should be based on “evidence of the standard at which their students are performing”, the Ofqual proposals said.
The final assessment for all pupils should be completed by teachers in May and June.
Meaning the results day could be brought forward to July instead of August.
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“This includes a student’s home, where that is an option.”
The proposals add that students who are not able to complete the assessments under the supervision of a teacher will be required to “make an appropriate declaration that they had not received unauthorised assistance”.
The papers that some pupils may take at home will be based on a mixture of past paper questions and new questions.
Ofqual has suggested teachers make an “objective” determination on grades.
The watchdog also said that teachers should “draw on a range of broader evidence of a student’s work” to make the final decision.
Exam boards would then give the teacher assessments an “external quality assurance” check.
These new proposals are an effort to avoid the algorithm complications from results day in 2020.
The algorithm that decided results was found to be inaccurate and gave some pupils much lower marks than they were predicted by their teachers.
