Study finds students in England from graduate households received more generously assessed grades
Teachers face an “almost impossible task” in fairly awarding A-level and GCSE grades in place of exams during the pandemic, according to researchers who found that students in England from highly educated backgrounds benefited from more generously assessed grades.
The study by University College London and the London School of Economics found that pupils whose parents had degrees were the beneficiaries of last year’s government U-turn that replaced grades determined by an algorithm in favour of grades decided by teacher assessments.
