Yesterday, the results for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) 2024 were released, showing a significant increase in passes over 50% in Social Studies and a slight increase in English and Math. While Science showed a slight decrease, the overall performance across the four subjects was deemed satisfactory.
According to Nicole Manning, Director of Operations at CXC, the council implemented a multi-layered approach to standardization and marking to ensure that scores were fair and accurate.
“We have a multi-layered approach to what we call standardization and marking so that means everybody involved has to be on the same page. And that’s very important because the score that is awarded to one candidate must be the same score if another person was marking should have been awarded to that candidate… no candidate is disadvantaged,” she emphasized.
