TEST SCORESTesting competencies will help teachers to spend their time well without exams. Exam scores not just test children, but also teachers, parents and schools. These developments beg some severe questions about the logic, practicability, and actual impact of testing and intervention strategies: Are children acquiring competencies? The learning curve protracted by testing competencies is difficult to measure due to challenges related to its implementation. QUALITYAlthough the ranking of schools has been criticised as punitive; in the absence of adequate resources needed to test competencies, the learning curve will take a different dimension altogether.

Source: Daily Nation November 04, 2018 22:52 UTC