No More CAC at SEA again!

[BRZ]

Finally the ministry of education doing something sensible.
After this standards 5 sitting of SEA, theres to be NO more CAC.

CAC to get the axe

Cabinet has moved to discontinue the Continuous Assessment Component of the primary school curriculum which forms part of the mark for the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA)

Education minister Anthony Garcia announced that the decision taken by Cabinet on Thursday, and was guided by feedback from the public during the ministry’s public consultations in February.

Garcia described the CAC element as an unnecessary burden on pupils and teachers. He said this year’s SEA pupils will be the last of the lot to write the examination with the CAC element in place.

He said the component was poorly thought out and had to go.

The structured assessment component will be removed, but assessment remains inherent in the system by other means such as course exams, said Garcia.

He said that children who were saddled with the CAC were placed at a disadvantage.

The CAC was implemented in 2012 under the former minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

Garcia made the announcement at a press conference on Friday at the ministry’s St Clair office, in the presence of representatives of TTUTA, the National Parent Teachers Association and the Teaching Service Commission.

[Sunic]

Out with that sheit in truth

[bluestarz9]

^agreed

[BRZ]

Finally- lets get back to placing them into Secondary schools solely based on their Academics...

[Duane 3NE 2NR]

thing is though should we place them based on ONE test on ONE day? or assess them with tests over a longer period of time?

[BRZ]

there will always have to be some form of TEst or assessment because the secondary schools are not setup to allow for fair Zoning, yes it maybe unfair for a single test as apposed to an ongoing test throughout the term, but I'm happy that they will do away with the Physical assessment, movement and dance, drama and so forth part of it counting towards a final mark.

[ruffneck_12]

thing is though should we place them based on ONE test on ONE day? or assess them with tests over a longer period of time?

Longer period of time

[civicman]

The structured assessment component will be removed, but assessment remains inherent in the system by other means such as course exams, said Garcia.


So basically the same continuous assessment called something else?

[Gladiator]

Backward forever... forward never!

[buckredan]

use all of the end of term exams as reference

[eliteauto]

Backward forever... forward never!

hopefully we could go further backward and include more 4H, Boy Scouts and other extra curricular activities from the past

[De Dragon]

I hope that some form of replacement supposedly "easier" on the teachers/children will be forthcoming soon.

[~Vēġó~]

It always came down to the Mathematics and Language Arts tests.....

CAC was most infuriating when the Ministry of Education repeatedly couldn't find the samples of pupils' work which had been requested by them (for moderation purposes) and had been submitted at the scheduled time during the pupils' year in Std. 4.... and then would send a new moderation list of the names of pupils for ALL the different CAC areas, that had already been covered and submitted at the STD 4 and STD. 5 levels, just before they write SEA in Std. 5, today and expect submission of everything by noon tomorrow......

[driveshaft]

too much new text books also