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Almost all students in a Dublin Grinds school have had at least one Leaving Cert reduced with 96% affected.
The Institute of Education, home to the largest number of Leaving Certificate students in the country with more than 800 enrolled, said its students have been “significantly penalized” by the calculated grading process this year.
Almost half – 44% – of all grades estimated by their teachers were lowered in the national standardization process while the equivalent national average was 17%.
These grade reductions affected 96% of the students “some worse than others”.
The Institute, based on Dublin’s Leeson Street, said it commissioned an analysis that found a “serious flaw” in the model used by the Department of Education.
Calls for the appeals process to be expanded for students.
Ms. Yvonne O’Toole, Director of the Institute of Education, said: “Endemic failures in this process have resulted in 96% of our students having a reduced grade.
“This level of reduction, along with national grade inflation of 4.4%, will result in hundreds of our students unfairly losing their chosen majors tomorrow when the CAO offers are made.”
He said the school had written to the Taoiseach and relevant ministers today asking for an appeals system that would allow for questioning the calculated grades given.
Ms. O’Toole said that Institute students should not be penalized in the CAO process tomorrow because there was no redress system to take into account what she called “the flaws in the State’s methodology.”
The school said that, year after year, its students “significantly exceed” the national average on the Leaving Certificate exam.
He stated that the standardization system was biased against larger cohorts of students, as is the case at the Institute.
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