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Written question asked by Toby Perkins (Labour) on Monday, 24 October 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 27 October 2022 (named day). It was answered by Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative) on Thursday, 27 October 2022 on behalf of the Department for Education.

T-levels: Health and Science

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the Year 1 (a) Health, (b) Healthcare Science and (c) Science T Level exam papers were retrospectively removed from the paper before those papers were regraded further to Ofqual's announcement on 8 September 2022.

Answer

Ofqual conducted a thorough review of the full range of questions in the Core examination papers for Health, Healthcare Science and Science T Levels and concluded that the assessments did not secure a sufficiently valid or reliable measure of student performance.

The department wrote to providers who started teaching T Levels in Health, Healthcare Science and Science in September 2021. The letter confirmed that in light of Ofqual’s findings, students’ grades for the core could be revised to be based entirely on their employer set project grade. To ensure that students were not unfairly penalised by this decision, any students who secured a higher grade in their overall core component than their employer set project were able to carry forward the higher mark.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
69585
Session
2022-23
Subjects
Assessments Health Science T-levels
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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