CyberSchoolTech (Caribbean)

06/01/2019

CXC Learning Hub in Beta-Testing Phase
October 1, 2018
PRESS RELEASE
27 September 2018 |
Subject: CXC Learning Hub in Beta-Testing Phase
The Caribbean Examinations Councils (CXC) is one step closer to developing the revolutionary tool tailor-made for the Caribbean education market – CXC Learning Hub.

On Monday 1 October, a selected group of learners and teachers from across the Caribbean will commence beta testing the CXC Learning Hub. In conjunction with the developers of the Hub, One on One Educational Services Limited, approximately one thousand students and teachers from seven Caribbean states will have access to the Hub as they test its various features.

The initial beta test will be conducted for one month and testers will have access to all the current features of the Hub. These features include assessment tools, Specimen Papers, study resources including sample study guides; and general resources including, syllabus, exemplars, subject/examination report and mark schemes; and digital toolkits for various subjects.

Beta testing will help CXC and One on One to refine the features of the Learning Hub based on testers’ feedback to improve user experience in the final product.

“We are very excited to be at this phase of the development of the CXC Learning Hub, and we are working to ensure we have the very best product.” Dr Carol Granston, Pro Registrar of CXC stated. “We look forward to receiving feedback from beta testers and refining the features of the hub to meet the need of users. We believe that the CXC Learning Hub will revolutionise the education landscape in the Caribbean and your feedback will help make this happen.”

The CXC Learning Hub is a web-based facility that when completed will provide users with a single access point to resources that support teaching, learning and assessment of all products in the CXC suite of offering: CPEA, CCSLC, CSEC, CVQ and CAPE.

The Learning Hub will be launched in early 2019.

Persons interested in participating in the beta test may contact CXC via e-mail at [email protected] and logging onto https://learninghub.cxc.org/.

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29/06/2015

Overall Improvement in GSAT Results

Education Minister, Hon. Ronald Thwaites is reporting improvement in performance in four of the five subject areas on which students were tested in the 2015 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).

Social Studies recorded the highest percentage increase, of six percentage points above last year’s average; followed by Communication Tasks, three percentage points, with Language Arts and Science showing marginal increases.

http://jis.gov.jm/overall-improvement-gsat-results

Overall Improvement in GSAT Results

29/06/2015

Ministry: GSAT changes will facilitate more targeted approach
Dr Grace McLean

THE Ministry of Education says the changes made to the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) will ensure adequate assessment of the skills and competencies that are necessary for students to transition to secondary school.

Chief Education Officer in the ministry, Dr Grace McLean, said the adjustments will also facilitate a more targeted approach to the preparation for the test.

The changes, which take effect at the next sitting of the examination in March 2015, are consistent with reviews conducted in 2009 and 2012.

But McLean disclosed that the changes will be confined to two of the five subject areas in social studies and science.

“There will be no changes to the mathematics, language arts and communications task [content] at this time. Neither will there be any changes to the types of items used to measure students’ performance on the test,” she noted.

The social studies content will be reduced by 25 per cent and will now consist of 60 items focused on areas such as Jamaica’s location and physical beauty; important events and people in Jamaica’s history; and the effects of weather and climate.

Students will also be tested on Jamaica’s Caribbean neighbors, including their history, culture and co-operation among countries; the planet Earth as part of the solar system, and different climatic zones.

Meanwhile, the science test will be clarified to ensure that teaching and learning emphasis the mastery of general concepts and basic scientific principles.

Content for science will look at areas such as sense organs, simple and complex machines, the earth’s atmosphere, nutrition, energy, and rock, minerals and soils.

The GSAT, Jamaica’s national high school entrance examination, is usually taken in March with the results released in June. The test replaced the Common Entrance Examination in 1999.
http://www.yesgsat.com/2014/08/ministry-gsat-changes-will-facilitate-more-targeted-approach/

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08/05/2014

Goodbye GSAT

The Grade-Six Achievement Test (GSAT) will be history by 2017. Education Minister Ronald Thwaites yesterday announced that a new exit exam will be in primary schools by that time.

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