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GCSE reform and redevelopment

1. GCSE reform and redevelopment. GCSE English: structural changes. First teaching September 2015 Untiered New 1 to 9 grading scale 100% external, terminal assessment November re-take opportunity, but only for 16+ No single English option Speaking and Listening as separate endorsement.

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GCSE reform and redevelopment

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  1. 1 GCSE reform and redevelopment

  2. GCSE English: structural changes • First teaching September 2015 • Untiered • New 1 to 9 grading scale • 100% external, terminal assessment • November re-take opportunity, but only for 16+ • No single English option • Speaking and Listening as separate endorsement

  3. GCSE English Language: criteria • Reading (50%): • Students should read ‘high quality, challenging texts from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries’ • The text types must include literature, literary non-fiction and other non-fiction writing such as essays, reviews and journalism (both printed and online) • All examination texts will be unseen, and be drawn from each of the three centuries • Assessing: comprehension, critical reading, summary and synthesis, writers’ choices (including grammatical) ones and comparison

  4. GCSE English Language: criteria • Writing (50%): • clear and coherent text, for different audiences and purposes • for impact • including ‘creatively and imaginatively’ • 20% of whole qualification allocated to SPaG • Speaking and Listening(unweighted): • renamed Spoken Language • focuses on presentation skills, effective listening and use of standard English

  5. What choices do boards have? • Matching text types and periods • Number of texts; length of texts • Types of texts (within the broader categories); themes • Paper structure: relationship between reading and writing • Writing tasks • Number and length of papers

  6. GCSE English Literature criteria • Students should study a range of high quality, intellectually challenging, and substantial whole texts in detail. These must include: • at least one play by Shakespeare • at least one 19th century novel (not short stories) • a selection of poetry since 1789, including representative Romantic poetry • fiction or drama from the British Isles from 1914 onwards.

  7. GCSE English Literature criteria • To ensure students read widely within these categories, there must be unseen texts in the assessment • Students must compare texts they have studied, as well as comparing unseen texts • 5% of the qualification is devoted to SPaG, or ‘using a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation’ • Note also reference to grammatical / linguistic terms to aid literary analysis

  8. What choices do boards have? • More scope here for variation: • Choice of set texts • Placement of poetry / prose / drama • Treatment of unseen • Comparison • Recreative response? • Question types

  9. Accountability reform • From 2016, in new Progress 8 headline measure • Double weighting for English as enabling subject • This can now be either of GCSE English Language or GCSE English Literature, but both must be taken to secure the double points • (Same is true for Attainment 8 and eBacc measures) • Still awaiting a view on International GCSE and Certificate

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