FBC News Cabinet has approved the removal of scaling of marks for the Fiji Year 12 and Fiji Year 13 Certificate Examinations, effective from this year. Cabinet based its decision on a submission by the Minister for Education, Heritage and Arts, Dr Mahendra Reddy. Scaling is a fundamental process used to convert scores to a common scale which adjusts the results students achieve in their various subjects for the purpose of aggregation, ranking and selection for entry to Universities and scholarships award. The Minister said that despite the good rationales for scaling, scaling conceals the raw marks and does not reflect students’ true achievement. The Minister said that with the removal of scaling from external examinations, the syllabi from Years 1 – 13 will be revised and standardized with specific learning outcomes. The Minister said that the Year 10 National Examination shall be reintroduced and externally prepared final examinations for each subject for Years 6-9 and Year 11 introduced. The scaling system was introduced in 1979 for the Fiji Seventh Form Certificate Examination and in 1989 for Fiji School Leaving Certificate Examinations as a principled method of addressing subject equivalence. - See more at: fbc.fj/fiji/26171/cabinet-approves-removal-of-scaling-marks#sthash.qkoX8gml.dpuf
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 05:09:40 +0000
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