Awarding TAGs at TCC A guide for students and

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Awarding TAGs at TCC A guide for students and parents 1 2 The process of awarding grades as stipulated by JCQ: subject teams consider what has been taught and what evidence they will ask students to produce in order to support the awarding of a grade; Subject teams create an assessment record – a list of the pieces of evidence students will produce (or have produced) that will be the basis for deciding upon a TAG (assessment records for every subject are included later in this booklet); Students complete the work and teachers mark it. Students are told the mark they receive; Once all of the pieces of work have been completed, teachers compare them to a list of grade descriptors in order to arrive at a ‘holistic’ judgement about which grade to award. This grade is released to students in August (10th August A level 12th August GCSE). Teachers cannot share any information about your grade until this date. 3 https://www.jcq.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Summer-2021-Grade-Descriptors-GCSE.pdf 4 Important points The evidence used should be consistent across the cohort – this means that you all produce the same pieces of work for us to make a judgement. Where there is a valid reason that you have not completed a piece of work, we can ask you to complete a comparable alternative to ensure that you have as much evidence as possible; All evidence in the assessment record will be used to judge your grade, but work completed in controlled conditions will enable greater confidence that it is authentically your own; We cannot use any other evidence – the assessment record created by subject teams is “not negotiable”; For tiered GCSEs, your grade will reflect you tier of entry; Your teachers have to keep all of your work; We cannot consider your potential ability – we can only make grading decisions based on the evidence you produce 5 Absent students After College weekly catch up sessions You will be invited to stay after College for up to an hour if you miss work that your teacher will use as evidence to determine your TAG Your parents will receive a letter from the College to let them know when “the same range of evidence should be used for all students, although there may be individual students for whom the proposed evidence is not appropriate… some students may have missed a section of teaching due to valid reasons”