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Results 2021: IOE expert reaction and comment

10 August 2021

IOE academics respond to A-levels and GCSE results.

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With girls earning more top grades than boys in A-level and GCSE maths, Dr Jake Anders and Dr Jennie Golding are asked whether this has anything to do with gender.

Dr Gill Wyness, Dr Jake Anders and Dr Claire Crawford from the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities discuss the future of assessment and grades.

“There will be a huge amount of heat and emotions will run really high because families will be able to put a name and face to the person who has come up with the grade” on results day, says Dr Amelia Roberts.

Dr Jake Anders on bias in teacher-assessed grades:

Dr Gill Wyness on the problem of grade inflation and the lingering education deficit from the pandemic: