Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 13 October 2020
252. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the dates on which the first calculated grades were made in relation to the 2020 leaving certificate results; the date on which the rounds of CAO offers were made; the date on which errors were discovered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30014/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe decision to adopt a model of Calculated Grades by my Department was a direct result of COVID-19, which prevented the state from running the conventional Leaving Certificate Examinations.
The information requested by the Deputy set out in the following table.
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Date |
Event |
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7 September |
Calculated Grades results provided to students |
|
11 September |
CAO Round 1 offers released |
|
14 September |
Applications for appeals for Calculated Grades open |
|
14 September |
Access for students, via the Calculated Grades Student Portal, to their estimated subject percentage marks from schools and to calculated marks from the Calculated Grades process. |
|
16 September |
Appeals application process closes at 5pm |
|
22 September |
Department advised by Polymetrika of inconsistency in how the data in the Calculated Grades model was performing. |
|
23 September |
- Minister advised of coding error in relation to Calculated Grades standardisation process. - CAO Round 2 offers released |
|
28 September |
Applications to sit postponed Leaving Certificate examinations open |
|
28 September |
Access for students via the Calculated Grades Student Portal to their class rank order in each subject from the Calculated Grades process. |
|
30 September |
The Minister announced that two errors had been found in the Leaving Certificate 2020 Calculated Grades process, relating to the way in which the coding for the process utilised Junior Cycle data. |
|
1 October |
CAO Round 3 offers released |
|
3 October |
The Minister, following a further review of the coding by an independent third party, announced that a third coding error had been identified, that all three errors had been corrected, following which 6,100 students received higher grades. |
|
7 October |
Applications to sit postponed Leaving Certificate examinations closed |
|
8 October |
CAO Round 4 offers released |
