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Chair of examiners
Responsibilities
A chair of examiners is responsible to the awarding body for maintaining standards across all the specifications in a particular subject within a particular qualification e.g. if an awarding body has three specifications in GCSE Mathematics, the chair of examiners must ensure that the same standards apply in all three specifications in any particular examination session. The chair is also responsible for ensuring that the standards are maintained year on year.
Roles
Chairs of examiners carry out their responsibilities by chairing the question paper evaluation meetings for their subject and granting final approval to the question papers and their associated mark schemes. They chair all the awarding meetings for specifications in their subject and then recommend grade boundaries for each specification to the awarding body's accountable officer. At the end of the examining process, chairs of examiners produce an overall evaluation report on the external and internal assessment in all the specifications in the qualification concerned.
Chairs of examiners also have a role in the appointment, training and re-appointment of senior examining personnel, in particular the chief examiner for each specification.
Qualifications
Chairs of examiners are normally subject experts with many years of experience of teaching and assessment in the subject for which they are responsible.