Online standardisation OLS

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Online standardisation(OLS)

• Modernising the quality assurance process in
  preparation for marking

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What you told us about face to face
standardisation

• Effective standardisation reduces QA burden for
  TLs and Principals
• Principal Examiner chooses style/pace
• Difficult examiners disrupt
• Not many recently qualified teachers
• Changes to mark scheme on day are problematic

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What you told us about f2f standardisation

• Little opportunity to review and revisit
  interpretation after meeting
• Not all examiners will ask for help
• Examiners arriving late or not at all creates
  problems some come unprepared
• Administration eats heavily into time-constrained
  activity

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AQAs response?

• A bespoke, web-based and secure individual
  standardisation package
• Comprehensive piloting and lessons learned prior
  to implementation
• Research to compare outcomes of traditional and
  online processes
• Training package and helpdesk to support roll out
  and full implementation

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How is OLS better for you and your team?

• Quality
• Examiner experience
• Marking
• Audit Trail
• Flexibility
• Work at own pace/own style
• Instant feedback
• Wider participation

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How is OLS better for you and your teams?

• Efficiencies
• Streamlined first phase sampling in real time
  can move to mark quickly
• Less travel/printing/postage
• Significant time and cost savings
• Enhanced security

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How is OLS better for centres and candidates?

• Eliminates disruption in centres
• Efficiency savings allow AQA to provide extra
  services
• OLS e-marking e-assessment allows speedier
  delivery of results

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The last word Mike Cresswell, AQA Director
General

• We are committed to the use of new
  technologies where they improve the quality of
  our assessments and the service we provide to
  centres and examiners. The reliability and
  validity of our assessments remain at the heart
  of all our work. To this end we are conducting
  research into this area which will inform the
  extent to which online standardising will play a
  part in AQAs commitment to using technology to
  ensure students get faster, more accurate results
  and an even better service.

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