Half of school and college staff felt pressured from either senior leaders or parents and students to change teacher assessed grades (TAGs) last year, an Ofqual survey has found.
The exams regulator quizzed schools, colleges and students on how they found the TAGs process, after summer exams were cancelled in 2021 due to the pandemic.
Half of 1,500 staff said they felt “undue pressure” on their professional judgment, an increase from 31 per cent in 2020 when centre assessed grades were awarded.
Thirty-one per cent of respondents felt pressure from their senior leadership team (SLT), which was often “centred around reducing student grades to meet previous year’s grade profiles”.
