Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills
4:30 pm
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
No. The work of the State Examinations Commission on those two projects helped it move to operate more in an online way. Other than that, it was not of immediate assistance to the work that needed to be undertaken on the calculated grades. The technical understanding of Mr. Fernando Cartwright and Polymetrika of the way the Irish system works would have meant that he was well positioned to come in and assist. I referred to PISA, but he also did some other work for the Educational Research Centre on PIAAC. In 2019 it consulted him on the procurement of an integrated online assessment platform to supply the Educational Research Centre tests to schools. For that work that was undertaken in 2019 and-----
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