Following concerns here and across the region about this year’s results, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) yesterday announced that an Independent Review Team had found its testing, marking and grading during the 2020 Examination cycle to be “technically sound and quality assured”.
It however has decided to implement a series of measures to address the crisis created by “the variance” between the expected and actual performance of students since “communications between various elements of the [education] system could have been more effective.”
During a press conference yesterday, Council Chair Sir Hilary Beckles stated that the team had found that “CXC did well within the COVID-19 pandemic to implement an innovative modified examination strategy for the region…that the modified approach is educationally and technically sound…that the system of marking and adjudication of performance and assessment is technically sound and quality assured [and] that CXC conducted its remit in a professional manner befitting its reputation and competence.”
