Exams: What we can learn from Singapore
THE STANDARD By Andrew Kipkemboi | February 8th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 “Mass failure!” screamed the national dailies last week. The results of tests taken by two classes - Grade 4 and Standard 8 - that reported back after the Covid-19 pandemic, make for depressing reading. Obviously, this will call for serious soul-searching and hand-wringing in the education sector. Ten years ago, reports that Standard 8 children could not do basic Standard 2 arithmetic or Standard 6 pupils could not string a simple sentence, caused an outrage. Then, the blame was heaped on the discredited 8-4-4 s...