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Barbershop Harmony- Jimmy Fallon Does It Again Wednesday, 12th June 2013Late night comedy shows, is nothing sacred?Preservers and Encouragers of Barbershop all across the land watched in mixed horror and glee as Jimmy Fallon and his merry men in the (appropriately?) named Rag Time Gals took the stage with a rousing rendition of the 90s R&B group Color Me Badd’s I Wanna Sex You Up. (Yes, you’ve read that right.) This was just […]
- A Mighty Wind - Bioshock Infinite Tuesday, 28th May 2013A Mighty Wind quartet performs in #1 selling video game in North America Technically, it’s the #1 and #2 video game in North America (counting Xbox and PS3 titles separately), with a bigger budget and bigger audience than many movie blockbusters. And the makers of BioShock Infinite decided that nothing sets the stage for fantasy violence like good old barber […]
- Jimmy Fallon Does It Again Wednesday, 12th June 2013
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I want to talk about normalized percentages. “What makes these irrational?”, I hear you say. Their application to examinations and assessments is what.
The big change for students completing A-levels this year was the introduction of the A* – an attempt to increase the value of the ‘gold standard’, as I see it. Unless of course you are taking Maths, Further Maths, Further Maths (Additional), Statistics, and Use of Maths AS. No AS will have the A* grade available.
“We can’t rely on A-levels any more.” [Sir Richard Sykes, Rector of Imperial College quoted in The Sunday Times].
Lower tier students (oops, I mean foundation…) are expected to work proportionately harder to achieve the higher grades than those doing the higher tier.
Does a C at GCSE mean they did enough to get 60% of each question correct but not reach the final answer of any of the problems? Or am I just being silly?
I have one word which I feel would address most, if not all, of these issues: portfolios.
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