Words we use.
Coursework comes with a lot of jargon. Here’s what we mean, in plain words.
35 words, A to Z
- AI detector
- Software that guesses whether AI wrote something. It can get it wrong both ways, so Askel doesn’t use one.See AI and the rules
- AI misuse
- Using AI to do the work and passing it off as your own.
- AI tool
- An app, like ChatGPT, that can write or change text for you.See AI and the rules
- Candidate
- The exam boards’ word for a student.
- Centre
- The exam boards’ word for a school or college.
- Changed records show
- If anyone changes a record later, it shows. Each record is linked to the ones before it, so a change can’t be hidden.Also called: tamper-evidentSee Trust and data
- ChatGPT
- A well-known AI tool. You type a question and it writes an answer.
- Confirming the work is the student’s own
- Teachers and students sign to say the work is the student’s own.Also called: authenticationSee How it works
- CPAC
- The common practical assessment criteria: what A Level science students are judged on in practical work, for the science practical endorsement.See Science practical endorsement
- DPIA
- A data protection impact assessment: a form your school uses to check the risks of a new app.See Trust and data
- EPQ
- The Extended Project Qualification: one long project a student plans, researches and writes up, usually alongside A Levels.See The EPQ page
- ESA
- The externally set assignment: a task set by the exam board and finished in supervised time, for example in Art and Design.See Art and Design
- Exam board
- The organisation that sets the qualification and checks the marks, like AQA, OCR, Pearson or WJEC/Eduqas.
- Exams officer
- The person in a school who looks after exam entries, forms and deadlines.See For schools
- Fingerprint
- A unique code worked out from a file. If the file changes, the code changes. The file never leaves your device.Also called: hashSee Verify a record
- Five steps
- Prepare, Show, Notice, Resolve and Prove: how Askel keeps coursework trusted, from the first week to the moderator’s desk.See How it works
- Inspection pack
- The records a JCQ inspector may ask to see, in one place.See For schools
- JCQ
- The group that writes the shared rules for the main exam boards.Also called: Joint Council for QualificationsSee JCQ rules map
- Maladministration
- Mistakes in how exams are run.
- Moderation
- When the exam board checks a sample of the school’s marks.
- NEA
- Non-exam assessment: coursework marked in school, then checked by the exam board.See Subjects
- Ofqual
- The exam regulator for England.
- Production log
- The EPQ diary. The student writes up each stage of their project, and their supervisor signs it off.See The EPQ page
- Readiness
- What’s done and what’s still to do.
- Record of how the work was made
- Dated steps, saved drafts, help given and sign-offs, kept as the project happens.Also called: process evidenceSee How it works
- SENCo
- The teacher who leads support for students with special educational needs.See Accessibility
- Signed PDF
- A PDF signed by Askel, with a short code anyone can check.Also called: sealed exportSee Verify a record
- Signed statement
- A statement you sign, for example to say the work is your own.Also called: declaration
- Specification
- The exam board’s document that sets out what’s taught and how it’s assessed. Each has a code, like AQA 7993.
- Standardisation
- Teachers checking they all mark to the same standard.
- Sub-processor
- Another company we use to run Askel.See Trust and data
- Supervisor
- The teacher who guides a student through their EPQ.
- Teacher signs it too
- When your teacher adds their signature to something you’ve signed, like your AI-use record.Also called: countersign
- Version history
- Every saved version of a piece of writing, with its date, so you can see how it grew.
- Worried about a piece of work
- What happens when a teacher is worried about a piece of work: a fair, written-down conversation. The student is invited to talk and gives their side. A named senior teacher decides.Also called: concern workflow, ResolveSee How it works