Mr. Dalton Tattan:

I will reply first and then pass over to Dr. Hislop. It is very heartening to hear the stories the Senator mentioned with the opportunities that people have. It underlines the point I was making earlier. The approach with standardisation was very much to try to ensure we did not exacerbate any disadvantage this year. We were very pleased that we were able to achieve that through the calculated grades. We cannot mistake that for genuine equity in society and ensuring that people have those opportunities in more normal times.

Part of that informs the approach we have of being very determined to run exams and, as far as we possibly can, run all components of exams.

We know that students can demonstrate their abilities, skills and talents in lots of different ways. It was not possible in November to do anything other than simply to run the written examinations, but for next year we want to run as far as possible all components of the process to ensure that those sort of inequities do not start to reassert themselves in the system. I will hand over to Dr. Hislop to speak about continuous assessment.