WJEC GCSE
Geography A
Autumn CPD 2013
Today’s agenda
9:00 – 9:30
Arrival and coffee
9:30 – 10:00
Welcome by WJEC officer
10:00 – 12:15
Lessons from the moderation of controlled assessment
in 2013 and a marking exercise based on the Fieldwork
Enquiry. An opportunity to consider the development of
new fieldwork tasks for 2015. This session includes
advice from the Field Studies Council.
(includes coffee
break)
12:15 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 15:15
DME marking exercise. Advice & discussion around the
development of new DME tasks for 2015.
15:15 – 15:30
Any questions?
Item Level Data
Item Level Data shows the breakdown
of marks of a script by Theme for
geography A.
For centres, it is a data source that can
be used to:
• evaluate their own performance
against specification norms
• assist candidates in improving
individual performance.
Walled Garden
• On the secure website (your exams
officer will have a login) in the Walled
Garden area, there are two ‘buttons that
give access to item level data:
– Item Level Summary (Candidates)
– Centre Performance in Context
Item Level Summary
(Candidates)
Use the drop down menu to select the
series
Item Level Summary
(Candidates)
• For each unit a candidate has sat, the
mark achieved on each item is given.
• At any stage the data can be exported as
a spread sheet or pdf document
Item Level Summary
(Candidates)
• By clicking on a candidate name, an individual
report is given
• The report shows:
– Mark achieved by candidate
– Average mark achieved by centre
– Average mark achieved for all candidates
entered with WJEC
Centre Performance in
Context
• To see how your centre performed, relative
to other centres with WJEC, the Centre
Performance in Context should be selected:
Centre Performance in
Context
This gives (for each item) the mean, facility
factor and attempt %, for all candidates as
well as males and females separately.
The white columns show the centre result,
the grey columns all WJEC candidates'
results.
Using the mean mark
Mean
• If all candidates perform well on a
particular item, the mean score will be
close to the maximum mark.
• Conversely, if candidates as a whole
perform poorly on the item there will be a
large difference between the mean score
and the maximum mark.
• A simple comparison of the mean marks
will identify those items that contribute
significantly to the overall performance of
the candidates.
Using the facility factor
For questions with different maximum marks,
the facility factor should be used to
compare performance.
• Facility factor expresses the mean mark
as a percentage of the maximum mark
• It is a measure of the accessibility of the
item.
• If the mean mark obtained by candidates
is close to the maximum mark, the facility
factor will be close to 100 per cent and the
item would be considered to be very
accessible.
Using Attempt %
Attempt %
• In Geography A UNIT 2, where candidates
have a choice of question, the statistics
evidence candidate preferences / the
teaching policy within centres.
• In UNIT 1, a lower figure for question 6 (the
final question) would indicate candidates
were short of time. Happily, at a national
scale, this does not seem to be a
significant issue.
Centre Performance in
Context
The guidance notes which can be
downloaded give an explanation of the data
analysis provided.
Feedback on the summer
series of exams
Available now
Available from
later in autumn
WJEC is not providing face-to-face
feedback on this summer’s GCSE
Geography exams. However, centres
are encouraged to:
• Use the Principal Examiners’ report
which is available on the WJEC
website.
• Use the new, interactive materials
being developed for the WJEC
website
Sample feedback (Geog A 2012)
• Feedback opens in a web browser
• Initial screen provides item level data
for one paper.
• Tools (on right) allow interactive use on
whiteboard
Drop down boxes explain
the item level data for use in
departmental training
Facility factor may be represented as a
graph. The shorter bars represent the
more demanding questions
2 Toggle the
mark on/off
3 Toggle
the
examiner’s
comment
on/off
4 Open
the
mark
scheme
1 Click on the
candidate to
open a
response
Toggle
examiner
comments on
to assist AfL