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This year’s Leaving Certificate students could find out over the weekend or Monday if their scores will improve with bug fixes in the calculated grade process.
Education Minister Norma Foley told Dáil last night that an independent review of all grades awarded could be completed today.
The review is to determine how many students should raise the grades they received as a result of the correction.
Ms. Foley said that once her department receives the result of the review, it will make the information available to students “at the earliest opportunity.”
This review will produce the final figures, added the minister.
Later, a spokesperson for Ms. Foley told RTÉ News that once it is done, the Executive Office for Calculated Grades will “finalize the results”, this could take “a day or two” and then the students will be notified.
The corrected results will also be sent to the CAO (Central Applications Office), which will take about a week to determine which students are eligible for renewed college offers and make those offers, some of which will likely be on a deferral basis.
The minister also announced an extension of the deadline from today until next Wednesday to register for the exams postponed in November.
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At the Dáil, Ms. Foley defended what she said were levels of supervision in the computed grade process.
While the Canadian company Polymetrika developed and executed the statistical model for the department, the Irish Center for Educational Research provided quality assurance and verification.
It was running the data in parallel with the contractor, the minister said.
Ms. Foley said that Polymetrika was an expert in the highly specialized field of statistics and psychometrics and had been hired by the Department of Education to work on contingency plans prior to the announcement of the computed grades process in early May.
Announcing details of the mistakes on Wednesday, the minister said they were made by Polymetrika.
Last night in the Dáil he said that in any contract there were sanctions and that the matter “will be pursued.”
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