Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills
Leaving Certificate Calculated Grades 2020 and Preparations for Leaving Certificate 2021: Department of Education
Mr. Dalton Tattan:
I do not believe so. We went out of our way to try to ensure fairness as far as possible, accepting the limitation that, ultimately, students did not sit examinations during the summer of 2020. What we were asking teachers, principals and schools to do, therefore, was to give their best estimate of what those students were likely to attain. Then we drew on data we had to try to ensure fairness throughout the cohort. Dr. Hislop talked earlier about how we tried to do that to ensure there was as much equity as we could achieve throughout the 2020 cohort and some level of comparability with other years too.
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