What is the Extended Project Qualification? How can students build their self-directed study skills, explore their passions and get credit for it?

Jennifer Obaditch, AQA’s Head of Curriculum Projects, enlightens Craig Barton about how the EPQ can help students with their A-levels and university studies, as well as telling him about some of the most impressive projects she’s come across. Craig also meets Julie Greenhough, who coordinates the EPQ at St Benedict’s, to find out how they implement it.

Watch our video with an EPQ student: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6s8_tE_JdU&t=12s

Read more research into the EPQ and students' performance: https://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/our-research/all-published-resources/research-matters/rm-23/

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02671522.2017.1302498

https://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/Images/178062-predictive-validity-of-level-3-qualifications.pdf

What is the Extended Project Qualification? How can students build their self-directed study skills, explore their passions and get credit for it?
Jennifer Obaditch, AQA&rsquo;s Head of Curriculum Projects, enlightens Craig Barton about how the EPQ can help students with their A-levels and university studies, as well as telling him about some of the most impressive projects she&rsquo;s come across. Craig also meets Julie Greenhough, who coordinates the EPQ at St Benedict&rsquo;s, to find out how they implement it.
Watch our video with an EPQ student: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6s8_tE_JdU&amp;t=12s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6s8_tE_JdU&amp;t=12s</a>
Read more research into the EPQ and students' performance: <a href="https://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/our-research/all-published-resources/research-matters/rm-23/">https://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/our-research/all-published-resources/research-matters/rm-23/</a>
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02671522.2017.1302498">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02671522.2017.1302498</a>
<a href="https://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/Images/178062-predictive-validity-of-level-3-qualifications.pdf">https://www.cambridgeassessment.org.uk/Images/178062-predictive-validity-of-level-3-qualifications.pdf</a>

How are exams made accessible for students from different backgrounds? How are clever multiple choice questions written? And just how are grade boundaries awarded? 
Teacher Craig Barton meets the people involved in producing and marking exams to get the answers to your most pressing questions, as well as talking to fellow teachers about how you can apply all this new knowledge in the classroom.

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