We train the staff, not just install the software

What a session covers

• How a script becomes a grade, bases, scores of 1 to 4, performance levels, weights, and the weighted average
• Reading the conversion tables, and why a five-base item and a six-base item need different ones
• Writing an analytical rubric, descriptors two examiners can apply to the same script and agree
• Setting an item that reaches every base, worked through on real items in your own subjects
• The compensatory system, what it means for a learner who has had one bad paper, in numbers
• Recording it properly, so the marks you keep can actually produce a grade at the end of term

How it runs

• At your school, with your own staff and your own subjects
• A half day for the grading system; a full day if you want staff to leave having written and marked their own items
• Departments can be split so History and Geography work on History and Geography items, not generic examples
• You keep the materials

It does not require you to use GradeFlex. Several schools we have trained were still on paper or in spreadsheets at the time.