Chief Examiner’s Report To The Chair Of Examiners (CERC)

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Chief Examiner’s Report to the Chair of Examiners (CERC)
Year ending June Series: Enter year
For all 14-19 qualifications
Guidance notes
Purpose and audience
The CERC provides comment on your qualification for the whole of the
year, ending in August. It provides a useful and informative document
that will help to improve the quality of OCR assessments and
processes. The CERC is confidential to OCR. It is addressed to the
Chair of Examiners, but may be read by the Qualifications
Manager/Leader and others within OCR.
Submission
Please complete the CERC as soon as possible after the award and
submit it to [email protected] by 10 August 2012 at the latest.
Confidential assessment materials (question papers, mark-schemes,
pre-release materials, comments on such materials exchanged between
assessors must not be circulated by e-mail (either on an e-mail or as
an attachment to an e-mail).
Report forms may be emailed. However, please take the following
security measures:
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Do not store either the completed report or the email you send on
your PC, but delete both report and email after receiving our
acknowledgment of receipt. (If you keep a printed copy of the
form, it should be stored in a secure place.)
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Double-check, before pressing the “Send” button, that your email
is addressed correctly to [email protected] and not copied to
anyone else.
Content
The main focus is recommendations for improvement, but please also
identify aspects that went well. Please comment on aspects which you
feel are significant for your qualification, giving specification unit
numbers where appropriate.
For any aspect, you may wish to comment on:
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your own involvement/contribution
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the involvement/contribution of others in the team
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aspects of good practice
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overall effectiveness
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any concerns
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any suggestions/proposals for improvement.
Because of the potential impact of the Freedom of Information Act,
under no circumstances mention individuals by name in your report.
Year ending June Series Enter year
Chief Examiner’s Report to the Chair of Examiners (CERC)
Specification Level
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Specification Name
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Specification Number
 
Name of Chief Examiner
 
e-mail address
 
Date completed
 
Report to be completed below, with the help of the attached Guidance
notes.
How well the assessment team has worked
You may wish to comment on matters such as:
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performance of assessors
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quality of tasks, assessment materials, question papers, mark
schemes
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standardisation, checking
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marking review
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EARs/appeals
 
How well OCR procedures and systems have worked
You may wish to comment on matters such as:
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administration
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scheduling, deadlines
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apportionment
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support for new assessors
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assessor training
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systems eg scoris, ModMan
 
How well the qualification has worked
You may wish to comment on matters such as:
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specification issues
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standards, comparability
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CA/coursework
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customer/competitors
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INSET
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competitor/market share issues
 
Other comments
 
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