...Then there is the critical question of not how the high fliers, but how the whole cohort fared in the Grade Six Assessment. In the days before Ms Manickchand’s tenure, when Mr Shaik Baksh was the ministerial incumbent, the public was sometimes given a fuller account of what the results signified. The current incumbent has shrunk from doing this, however, and so we only have the impressive marks of the top 1% to go on, and generalities about the pass rate in the four subject areas. But would the Minister or the Chief Education Officer kindly inform us exactly how many children did not ‘pass,’ and exactly how bad their failure was. Education is far too important for the public only to be exposed to feel-good information, and former Minister Baksh, at least, should be held up as an example for his frankness in this area – albeit intermittent. However, his staff did one year supply details of how badly an alarming number of candidates had performed, suggesting that they were not really functionally literate, since some of them clearly did not understand the questions or else could not read them at all. This information formed the basis for strategies to address the literacy problem in schools...
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:37:54 +0000
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