By Cleveland Sam
“The Caribbean Examinations Council has successfully launched its Electronic Testing or e-testing service to the region.” The announcement was made by Barbados Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation on Monday, 30 January, 2017.
The January 2017 sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) was a historic moment for both the CXC and for the region as a whole. For the first time, students across the region were taking multiple public examinations, not with pen and paper, but on computers! The age of e-testing is here and once again CXC is blazing the trail.
This position is not unfamiliar to CXC – it was the first Examinations Board to use school-based assessment and profile grades. While it is not the first to use e-testing, it is the first to use it in public examinations in the Caribbean.
