Pupils will be able to challenge teachers if they believe their GCSE or A-level grade is being based on unfair assessments of their work, the head of Ofqual suggested yesterday.
Simon Lebus, interim chief regulator, told the Commons’ education select committee that teenagers could raise concerns with schools if they felt assessments did not represent “the best of their ability”. This would take place before grades are submitted by schools to exam boards in June and pupils will also have a chance to appeal against the final grade they receive in August.
He said: “There’s an opportunity for a student to say if they think the evidence being used doesn’t accurately reflect the best of their ability, to say ‘actually I don’t think that’s fair,
