Better details on how learners for Grade Six are being evaluated have emerged showing a major withdrawal from the multiple-choice tests administered in KCPE under the former 8-4-4 education system.
The examinations being rolled out under the CBC contains a balance between summative and formative assessments.
This means that the pupils already did the school-based assessments in Grade 4 and 5 and are now doing the last lot of the tests ahead of the December national examinations. The examination is now being stated to as KPSEA.
Grade Four to Six pupils are taught English, , Sign Language, Home Science, Kiswahili, Science and Technology, Mathematics, Agriculture, Religious Education (CRE/IRE/HRE), Social Studies, Physical and Health Education and Creative Arts.
Grade four, five and six school-based assessments help in informing grasp of competencies and willingness of learners to changeover and provide response to stakeholders such as parents, learners and teachers in subsequent grades and curriculum inventers.
Primary school teachers said each query in the continuing assessments requires pupils to think and apply knowledge based on things learnt in class.
The teachers also said that the good thing is that for practical subjects pupils are supposed to go out and do their activities which are earned based on how they achieve. This, is unlike earlier years, where even practical queries were done just on paper.
Primary School Heads Association, Johnstone Nzioka, national chairman said the valuations are practical and help children think.
He also said that it is no longer about memorization but it is about the submission of knowledge and thinking.
In some queries on the continuing assessments, learners are required to recognize objects strained in the question papers and name the several parts by writing down the answers.
This is a withdrawal from past rehearsal where candidates would only gloom boxes of multiple choice while answering questions.
