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Findings indicate that support quality, procedural clarity, and pressure levels are strongly linked to intentions to continue examining, while pay satisfaction shows weaker or non-significant associations after accounting for background variables. 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It is likely, therefore, that a large amount of stress is caused by examiners balancing their work commitments with their examining role. Examiners may need to be given relief from their everyday work commitments to examine.  \nRespondents who reported experiencing problems with support from the AQA or Senior Examiners were less likely to intend to continue examining. This suggests that the support offered to examiners could be improved. The clarity of marking procedures and the competency of the Senior Examiner were most strongly associated with intention to continue and perhaps this is where improvements should first be sought. However, very few respondents reported problems with the support they had received either from the AQA or their Senior Examiner, so improvements would require increasing the satisfaction levels of examiners who are already relatively satisfied. This is likely to be relatively difficult and expensive.  \nMost respondents were dissatisfied with the amount they were paid for examining and it is likely that an attractive level of pay is important in recruiting new examiners (although research with potential examiners would be required to test this empirically) . However, examiners’ responses to the Pay Scale items were significantly less associated with intention to continue examining than their responses to the Pressure, Insight and Support Scale items. Further, once examiner background variables were taken into account, examiners’ satisfaction with pay had no significant association with intention to continue examining.  \nThe conclusions of this study are that if the AQA’s priority is to retain examiners, resources would be better used to reduce the amount of pressure examiners experience (perhaps by lobbying for examiners to be given time away from teaching) and to improve the level of support offered to examiners, than increasing the amount examiners are paid. If, on the other hand, the AQA’s goal is to increase the job satisfaction of examiners, offering increased remuneration would help achieve this objective. It would be incorrect to assume, however, that increasing examiners’ job satisfaction would decrease the likelihood of their giving up examining. The link between job satisfaction and employee turnover is not simple, nor direct.  \nKEYWORDS  \nExaminer recruitment, job satisfaction, attitudes to examining.  \n2  \nINTRODUCTION  \nThere is no published research on examiners’ attitudes to examining, except for a survey focused on examiners’ attitudes to standardisation meetings (Pinot de Moira, 1999) . To inform the retention of examiners who have marked in the past and the recruitment of new examiners, a survey of examiners’ attitudes to various aspects of examining was conducted. The following report outlines analyses of the examiners’ responses to the closed and open response questions included in the survey. The examiners canvassed include those who currently examine or who have examined in the recent past for the AQA.  \nQuestionnaire construction  \nThe anonymous questionnaire consisted of three sections, the first section elicited background information about the respondents’ examining experience, including the following:  \n• When they first began examining for the AQA (or its predecessor Boards);  \n• How many examination series they had examined for the AQA (or its predecessor Boards);  \n• Which other Awarding Body(s) they had examined for either currently or in the past;  \n• Their examining role within the AQA;  \n• The qualifications they had examined during summer 2003;  \n• The AQA office(s) they had dealt with during the 2003 examinations;  \n• Their occupation;  \n• If they taught, the type of centre they worked at;  \n• The subject they examined (if they felt it would not threaten the anonymity of their responses) .  \nThe second section of the questionnaire consisted mostly of 58 closed response items measuring re","cbCaivKyU1OnbcF3","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivKyU1OnbcF3","pdf",817780,"English","# Introduction\n## Questionnaire construction\n# Measures of examiner job satisfaction as predictors of intention to continue examining\n## Sample characteristics","[{\"question\":\"What was the purpose of the AQA examiners’ attitudes survey?\",\"answer\":\"To support retaining past examiners and recruiting new ones by assessing examiners’ attitudes to multiple aspects of examining, using closed and open response questions.\"},{\"question\":\"Which factors were most associated with intention to continue examining?\",\"answer\":\"Clarity of marking procedures and the competency of the Senior Examiner showed the strongest associations, and support problems reduced the likelihood of intending to continue.\"},{\"question\":\"How did pay relate to examiners’ intention to continue?\",\"answer\":\"Most respondents were dissatisfied with pay, but pay satisfaction had significantly weaker associations with continued examining intentions and no significant association after background variables were considered.\"}]","Examiners’ attitudes to examining - recruitment and job satisfaction survey report | PDF",1792464705,101]