Leaving Certificate 2020 Calculated Grades: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2020-10-01
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Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (SF), Cork South-Central

The Minister has announced an external review and appointed ETS to conduct it. The company is entirely independent of the Department and this process. A paper from the national standardisation group to the independent steering group and the programme board stated that Dr. Kentaro Yamamoto was appointed in an expert role, which included a level of contingency cover for Polymetrika, as technical adviser on the standardisation process and to provide expert advice and oversight regarding data integrity. He was part of checking the data integrity in the process that the Department set up. Am I right in saying that Dr. Yamamoto is an ETS employee, the same ETS that is essentially externally reviewing the calculated grades process? Does the Minister see a problem with that in terms of a conflict of interest?

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Sitting date: 2020-10-01