A level consultation responses

22 September 2014

ACME published two consultation responses in response to the latest A level consultations from the Department for Education and Ofqual.

The Department for Education response can be found here.

The Ofqual response can be found here.

In these consultation responses ACME highlights the need for a good deal of investment in professional development to ensure that teachers are equipped to teach the new specifications and are confident in teaching problem solving and modelling as suggested in the drafts.

ACME also highlights the need for there to be more analysis of how to validly assess A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics.

Further details on the consultations and report can be found below and on ACME's A level page:

Department for Education (DfE): The consultation documents on subject content from the DfE can be found  here, including the GCE AS and A level Mathematics subject content and the GCE AS and A level Further Mathematics subject content.

Ofqual: The Ofqual consultation on the recommendations for assessment: 'Developing new GCSE, A level and AS qualifications for first teaching in 2016' can be found  here.

ALCAB: The ALCAB report from the mathematics and further mathematics panel and the  correspondence to the DfE from Chair of the ALCAB mathematics panel, Professor Richard Craster are available on the ALCAB website.

Professor Nigel Thrift, Chair of ALCAB wrote a covering letter to Michael Gove. The letter can be found  here. The  response from Michael Gove is available of the DfE website.

In addition ALCAB has issued a press notice regarding the reports and letters.