ASCL comment on strengthening teacher-examiner safeguards

Commenting on Ofqual’s consultation and JCQ’s paper on teacher involvement in developing exam papers, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said:

“Teachers who set exam questions play an important role in the exam system bringing classroom and subject expertise into the process of question setting. They do so with great integrity, and the events of last summer are extremely rare. The measures announced today are a sensible and proportionate approach to strengthening safeguards further while retaining the invaluable expertise and insight of teachers in the question-setting process.”