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Marking of NGSA papers to be completed today
Marking of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) is slated to be completed today. This is according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Education yesterday.
The Education Minister (centre) during his recent visit to the marking centre.
Marking, the statement revealed, commenced on May 9, 2016.
Last week Friday Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine, and team visited the marking centre for the 2016 NGSA which was written by approximately 14,500 candidates on April 27 and April 28, 2016. The subject areas in which candidates participated were Mathematics, English, Science and Social Studies.
During the recent visit, to the marking centre, the Minister and his team were apprised of the administrative processing of the marking of the assessment scripts. This process entails the recording of, and separation of the bio data information from the scripts in preparation for marking.
A Caribbean Examination Council’s (CXC) representative at the marking centre explained that there is a four tier verification system in place at the marking centre which will ensure that scores are recorded correctly.
The Minister and his team also visited the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD) where they met with Measurement and Evaluation Specialists and Chief Examiners for the various subject areas during the standardization of the NGSA 2016 scripts.
The 2016 NGSA this year had incorporated some changes. But according to the Ministry these were related to the question paper and answer sheets and not to the structure or format of the questions on the question paper.
To clarify this development, the Ministry had explained that while each of the four subjects written in the NGSA continues to have two papers (Paper 1 and Paper 2) as it relates to candidate information, the two papers require different sets of information. For paper one, the answer sheets the candidate information –candidate name and identification number – were already printed or ‘pre-slugged’.
The candidates however were required to write/sign their names as a mechanism to ensure that the candidate for whom the paper was prepared was actually the one who answered the questions. But according to the Ministry, this would have had no implications for marking since the Ministry this year planned to mark all answer sheets electronically.
As it relates to paper two, the cover page of the answer sheet was bifurcated and perforated. The Test Code, Subject, and Candidate Number were required on both sides. The Test Code and Subject were printed on while candidates were required to write in their Candidate Number.
In addition to this, on the right half of the paper only, candidates were required to write on the name of their school, their full name, date of birth and gender. The right side of the sheets were all detached prior to the commencement of the marking of paper two and retained for administrative purposes only.
But the information required for the marking process, according to the Ministry, is the Test Code, Subject, and Candidate Number only. ”These are administrative mechanisms and will have no bearing on the marking process whatsoever,” the Ministry has insisted.
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