The Basic Education Principal Dr Belio Kipsang’ has comprehensively elaborated how Grade 12 assessment will be different from that of Grade 9.
The PS noted that Grade 9 assessment will help learners decide which career pathway they will opt for as they go into Senior School in Grade 10 while Grade 12 assessment will be used to place learners into tertiary institutions.
“At Grade 12, the assessment will be for both placement and certification. But that of Grade 9 is purely transition. You are moving from one level to the next and you are all aware we are at 100 per cent transition,” he said.
The learners will have three career pathways to choose from once they transit to Senior School starting from Grade 10.The three pathways are Sciences, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), Social Sciences commonly known as humanities and Performing Arts, Music and Athletics.
Dr Kipsang’ spoke on Wednesday, April 3, when he officiated a stakeholders’ engagement on Senior School and Teachers Education at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development in Nairobi.
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He added that the assessment for Grade 9 leaners will be both formative and summative.
“We shall have assessment which is both formative and summative. Just like we had KPSEA for Grade 6 which is both formative and summative, the same will be in Grade 9,” he said.
According to the recommendation by the Presidential Working Party on Education reforms, the Grade 9 summative assessment will make up 60 per cent of learner’s final score as the remaining 40 per cent will be from formative assessment as at the end of Grade 7 and 8, each making up 20 per cent of their final work.
He affirmed that it is in Grade 12 that the assessment will be for both placement and certification as grade G purely is for transition to Senior School.
“After Grade 12, you will get certificate which will prepare you either to progress to the next level or make you move to start a certain aspect of life like going into police force,” Belio said.
The Presidential Working Party had recommended that the final assessment to Grade 12 constitute 70 per cent of the total score, while the remaining 30 per cent come from school assessment. It is because it will be the only one used under CBC to place a leaner in another institution.
By Brian Ndigo
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