Late last year I shared my worry about government’s plans to replace GCSE exams with the English Baccalaureate. I was delighted that in January, the secretary of state announced that rather than introducing a new key stage 4 qualification, there would be an overhaul of GCSEs, the key change being the move to an end-of-course examination as the preferred form of assessment.
On one level this is good news but we need to think carefully about how we will ensure that children have an examination system that enables them to show what they know, understand and can do. The risk of end-of-course examinations is that some students are less likely to meet the assessment requirements.
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