Kenya's exam board is telling schools to cut it out with the fake report cards they keep sending to parents about junior high test scores. Education officials are mad because institutions keep dropping phony league tables and average scores, even though the new system literally does not work that way anymore.
The competency-based setup ditches the old ranking game for an eight-level scale that checks each subject separately instead of cramming everything into one number. Schools apparently missed the memo and started manufacturing their own analyses that look like the outdated format, which is confusing families who are already trying to figure out how this whole thing operates.
Over a million kids took the first round of these assessments, and the government says results only show up through official channels like the exam council's website or text messages. The education secretary pointed out that creative subjects and agriculture did well while math struggled, but the whole point is identifying what students are actually good at rather than just sorting them by test performance.
The competency-based setup ditches the old ranking game for an eight-level scale that checks each subject separately instead of cramming everything into one number. Schools apparently missed the memo and started manufacturing their own analyses that look like the outdated format, which is confusing families who are already trying to figure out how this whole thing operates.
Over a million kids took the first round of these assessments, and the government says results only show up through official channels like the exam council's website or text messages. The education secretary pointed out that creative subjects and agriculture did well while math struggled, but the whole point is identifying what students are actually good at rather than just sorting them by test performance.
