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Edexcel revealed today at the AoC annual conference the results from their trials of new ways of working. They also provided the results from their new electronic marking system.
In a trial with 23,000 learners across 280 centres, Edexcel focused on the electronic system for Key and Basic Skills. This electronic system will allow Key and Basic Skills tests to be provided on demand instead of four times per a year, significantly reducing the delivery of results from two months to 10 days.
Jerry Jarvis and Rick Firth, representatives from Edexcel also revealed a glimpse of the awarding bodies GCSE strategy through on screen marking of observations by students.
The electronic marking system was piloted with over 1 million exam papers this year alone, with scope to increase this to 3.5 million. The examining body will be investing £30 million over the next five years into the service which provides a completely digitalised image of the whole exam paper.
The new system allows the awarding body to show colleges, training providers through to indiviual learners their performance against the national and local results.
Edexcel have further transformed their way of working, through providing support resources to students and teaching staff and a change in examiners working style. Edexcel and Pearsons collaboration has seen the increase in additional free print and content facilities to both learners and teaching staff. Their e-learning solutions also provides learners and teaching staff with additional teaching resources.
Edexcel have also transformed the way their examiners work by providing hourly contracts instead of a fee per an exam paper. The examiners also mark a series of questions rather than whole papers.
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