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Controlled assessment is GCSE coursework which is sat in the classroom under strict supervision and marked by teachers.
BBC: GCSE English: Teachers' anger over generous marking claim
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They will also mean a better balance between controlled assessment and written exams for the qualification.
BBC: GCSE English plan leaves speaking test out of final grade
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The fiasco centres around the controlled assessment aspect of the new modular English GCSE qualification, sat for the first time this summer.
BBC: GCSE English: Teachers' anger over generous marking claim
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It also suggested the grade boundaries had had to be moved in response to teachers "significantly" overmarking controlled assessment papers.
BBC: GCSE English grades 'statistical fix', High Court told
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This summer's English GCSEs were a new modular qualification, with pupils sitting written exam papers and controlled assessment, and schools decided when pupils submitted that assessment work and sat exams.
BBC: GCSE English: Teachers' anger over generous marking claim
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Under the current arrangements the speaking and listening controlled assessment makes up 20% of the overall grade, with 40% on the reading and writing controlled assessment and 40% on the written exams.
BBC: GCSE English plan leaves speaking test out of final grade
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Most of the controlled assessment work was submitted in the summer and when examiners saw evidence of over-marking, exam boards raised grade boundaries, leading some pupils to receive poorer grades than expected.
BBC: GCSE English: Teachers' anger over generous marking claim
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"The regulator concludes that so much weight on one grade in one subject as part of accountability and performance measures created perverse incentives for schools in the way they marked controlled assessment and led to the over-marking, " the report says.
BBC: GCSE English: Teachers' anger over generous marking claim
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New GCSEs will be taught in certain key subjects from September 2015, which the government says will be linear (exams taken at the end), with less controlled assessment (coursework) and more emphasis on "extended writing" rather than "bite-sized questions".
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Ofqual's research found many schools used the marks pupils received in their first exams and the January grade boundaries to work out what score a pupil would need in their controlled assessment to get a certain grade and marked it accordingly.
BBC: GCSE English: Teachers' anger over generous marking claim