An algorithm used to calculate exam results in England risks unfairly punishing poorer pupils, politicians have warned. The system was introduced when school exams were cancelled due to the COVID-19 ...

This repository contains a python implementation for the EXaM algorithm. The paper attached describes the development of the algorithm in further detail. Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT) enroll ...

Approximately 280,000 students had A-Level grades downgraded last week. A political hurricane is raging. Having foreseen many of these points in April, the level of fallout exceeds what our worst-case ...

Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hands At last, Josiah ...

When Colorado high school student Isabel Castaneda checked her final grades for the International Baccalaureate programme in July, she was shocked. Despite being one of the top-ranking students in her ...

Nagpur: When CBSE’s Term-1 board exams for Std X and XII begin later this month, a new invisible ‘invigilator’ will be tracking all malpractices in both India and abroad. Innumerable lines of computer ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A former Ofsted chief told LBC that Ofqual "would have known their algorithm would hit the poorest hardest" and that there would be "an undue advantage" to independent sixth forms. After days of ...

A-LEVEL exam bosses reportedly want controversial algorithm results overturned and replaced with teachers’ predicted grades. Furious students have been protesting after a chaotic results day last ...

LONDON — Following a national outcry, the British government on Monday made a dramatic U-turn on using an algorithm to estimate how students would have done on exams they weren't able to take because ...