{"id":2131,"date":"2021-01-06T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1333253"},"modified":"2021-01-06T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T16:34:44","slug":"uk-government-to-put-trust-in-teachers-not-algorithms-on-exam-results-after-last-years-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2131","title":{"rendered":"UK government to put \u2018trust in teachers not algorithms\u2019 on exam results after last year\u2019s debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/neural?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F01%2FUntitled-design-2021-01-06T160200.943.png&amp;signature=620fe418963d9c1e89f31e135aae931d\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>The British government is replacing this summer\u2019s school-leaving exams in England with teacher assessments, after admitting <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/08\/18\/england-ditches-its-shitty-exam-result-algorithm-after-it-penalized-poorer-students\/\">that the algorithms used in 2021<\/a> \u201cdid not deliver what they needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year we\u2019re going to put our trust in teachers rather than algorithms,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-12BgPY5zk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> Education Secretary Gavin Williamson.<\/p>\n<p>The decision will come as a relief to the thousands of students who last year initially had their marks downgraded by a statistical model,&nbsp;after&nbsp;tests were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Around 40% of students were marked down from their predicted grades by the algorithm, which used a formula based on a school\u2019s historical results and each pupil\u2019s attainment. Research showed that pupils from fee-paying schools had disproportionately benefited from the calculations.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/dutch-disruptors\/2020\/12\/15\/meet-the-4-scale-ups-using-data-to-save-the-planet\/\">Meet the 4 scale-ups using data to save the planet<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A day after demonstrators gathered outside Parliament&nbsp;to protest the&nbsp;results, the government announced it would ditch the system and replace it with teacher assessments. Prime Minister Boris Johnson blamed the fiasco on \u201ca&nbsp;mutant algorithm,\u201d after initially describing the results as \u201crobust\u201d and \u201cdependable.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.0267379679144\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">chants of \u201cfuck the algorithm\u201d as a speaker talks of losing her place at medical school because she was downgraded. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P15jpuBscB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/P15jpuBscB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 huck (@HUCKmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HUCKmagazine\/status\/1294985562106015750?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">August 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Today\u2019s announcement marks yet another major U-turn for the government, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/politics\/gcse-level-exams-absolutely-not-23110961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">last month vowed<\/a> that&nbsp;GCSEs and A-Levels would \u201cabsolutely\u201d go ahead this year.&nbsp;But the move suggests it\u2019s learned at least one lesson from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/radio\/presenters\/david-lammy\/one-year-anniversary-tory-election-win-u-turns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">catalog of failures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published January 6, 2021 \u2014 16:34 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/01\/06\/uk-government-to-put-trust-in-teachers-not-algorithms-on-exam-results-after-last-years-debacle\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government is replacing this summer\u2019s school-leaving exams in England with teacher assessments, after admitting that the algorithms used in 2021 \u201cdid not deliver what they needed.\u201d \u201cThis year we\u2019re going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}