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Please provide any comments.  \n1. AQA agrees with Ofqual’s proposal to have separate definitions for moderation and verification. They are two separate processes. The distinction between them has sometimes been a grey area, and AQA would welcome a clear, working definition.  \nQuestion 2: Do you have any comments on our proposed definitions for moderation and verification? Please provide any comments.  \n2. Overall, the proposed definitions are a slight improvement, but arguably a missed opportunity. For example, AQA has some reservations about the reference to the marking of assessments, as this might imply numerical marks will be assigned. In fact, in verification and occasionally in moderation, grades rather than marks are assigned. Rather than ‘marking of assessments’, ‘assessment of learner work’ might be more suitable.  \n3. AQA would like to see the definition of moderation make clear that it must be carried out for every centre in every series.  \n4. Rather than ‘result’, AQA would like to see ‘outcome’ used, given that in most instances moderated units contribute to an overall result, rather than constitute a result in their own right.  \n5. The definition for verification only becomes clear – particularly for lay readers – by reading the definitions alongside paragraphs 2.13 and 2.14 of the consultation document, which is problematic if they do not form part of the final definition or context.  \nQuestion 3: Are there any alternative approaches we should consider for regulating the controls between awarding organisations and centres that we have not set out? Please provide any suggested alternatives.  \n6. Where the same qualification, or a very similar qualification, is offered by several awarding organisations (eg A-levels and GCSEs ), AQA would recommend that, for consistency and fairness, Ofqual ensure that adjustments to a centre’s proposed marks or results are made-or not made-by following similar criteria; and that, for comparable sets of centre marks and moderator marks, the size of any adjustments made is also consistent.  \n7. AQA would recommend that, where the nature of the work allows , it is made clear that it can be submitted by post or electronically for verification, as this could reduce the frequently of visits.  \nQuestion 4: Do you have any comments on our proposed approach to determining which qualifications should be subject to moderation?  \n8. For an awarding organisation to have to provide a rationale for using verification in every individual instance where it wishes to do so would represent a disproportionate burden. We recommend that Ofqual, in consultation with the awarding organisations, identify classes of qualifications or units where verification would be more appropriate and develop criteria for using verification rather than moderation.  \n9. We agree that where there is an endorsement that is additional to the final subject grade, as in GCSE English Language, it may be appropriate for this to be verified and not moderated.  \nQuestion 5: Do you have any comments on the qualifications we have identified that should always be subject to moderation?  \n10. If assessments have already been developed, it may be difficult to switch to moderation if the intended approach was verification. If an assessment is by its nature criterionreferenced (such as when it determines whether the candidate can or cannot perform certain tasks) , then it does not lend itself to a continuous, linear scale and again moderation will be difficult. An insistence on moderation, particularly in instances such as these, might limit the validity of assessments.  \nQuestion 6: To what extent do you agree or disagree that qualifications should be subject to stronger verification controls in the circumst","cbCaiijuGERRatdM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiijuGERRatdM","pdf",154772,"English","# Question 1\n## Proposed separate definitions\n# Question 2\n## Comments on proposed definitions\n# Question 3\n## Alternative regulatory approaches\n# Question 4\n## Which qualifications should be moderated\n# Question 5\n## Qualifications that should always be moderated\n# Question 6\n## Stronger verification controls\n# Question 7\n## Other enhanced verification circumstances\n# Question 8\n## Burden of requiring moderation\n# Question 9\n## Burden for qualifications subject to verification\n# Question 10\n## Other regulatory burdens","[{\"question\":\"How does AQA view the difference between moderation and verification?\",\"answer\":\"AQA agrees the processes should be separately defined and notes the distinction has sometimes been unclear. 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