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Gadgets could cause disqualification of NGSA candidates

Apr 03, 2014 News

Failure to adhere to the Ministry of Education’s caution to keep all cellular phones and other electronic devices out of examination rooms could see candidates of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), set for next week, being barred from the examination.
This is according to a candid statement issued by the Ministry yesterday which stated that “we are therefore asking candidates to leave such devices at home. Any candidate found with such devices during the examination will be disqualified.”
Just over 15,000 candidates are set to sit the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) this year.
The NGSA is slated to be conducted on Wednesday, April 16, and Thursday, April 17, 2014, at centres across the country.  The participating candidates will be assessed in the four subject areas of English Language, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.
English Language and Science will be administered on Wednesday while Mathematics and Social Studies will be done the following day. Each subject will consist of two papers.
According to the Education Ministry, timetables for the candidates were prepared and since last month distributed to schools across the country.
Additionally, it was disclosed that seminars are being held to train supervisors and invigilators in the administration of all examinations and to enlighten them on the new procedures for these examinations.
To date training has been concluded in Region Seven – Kamarang and Bartica; Region Eight – Paramakatoi; Region Two – Essequibo; Region Nine – Lethem and Region 10 – Linden.
Seminars are also set to be conducted in all the other Regions prior to the administration of the NGSA.
According to the Education Ministry too, other logistical preparations are ongoing in the various Regional Education Departments for the successful administration of the examinations.
The Ministry had since earlier this month identified the dates for the NGSA as well as the date by which the results should be available. This development, according to Minister Priya Manickchand, is in keeping with efforts to regularise the NGSA programme so as to ensure that “people are not waiting and anxious and asking us every day when it will be out; we kind of know when that will happen,” assured the Minister.
The results of the NGSA last year saw Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam, in his attempt to offer an analysis, disclosing that schools in the Coastal Region have over the years outperformed those in the Hinterland Regions. Moreover, he called for education stakeholders to redouble their efforts to reverse the prevailing trend.
According to Sam, efforts must be directed at ensuring that there is improved performance in all subject areas, more specifically in the key areas of English and Science which have fluctuated over the years. He disclosed however that the statistical evidence suggest that the performance in Mathematics has improved generally over previous years.
Sam in sharing the details of the analysis said that some of the overarching findings clearly suggest that females have continued to outperform males in all subject areas and in all Regions.
The analysis, however, did not see the Ministry seeking to disaggregate the performance of public and private schools. According to Sam “I am more concerned about how all children are doing and I am convinced that the schools are using the same curriculum.”

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