Leaving Cert calculated grades system may need more homework, college tables show
“Students from lower- and middle-income backgrounds scooped up more college places in the autumn after the June 2020 Leaving Cert was replaced by calculated grades. They were buoyed by a big rise in the number of CAO offers made to adjust for the extraordinary circumstances of 2020 when teacher assessments combined with a computer algorithm decided the grades of more than 60,000 candidates …” (more)
[Katherine Donnelly, Independent, 8 January]
Tags: CAO, inequality, leaving cert, social disadvantage, undergraduate admissions