KNEC, the Kenya National Examinations Council responsible for developing national examinations, registering candidates, and conducting the exams, has announced that the 2024 Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) results and performance reports are ready.
In an announcement on Tuesday, the assessment authority notified schools that the examination results and insights have been uploaded on the CBA portal: https://cba.knec.ac.ke.
“Schools that presented candidates for the assessment are advised to log into the portal and access the learner-specific reports,” KNEC said.
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KNEC administered KPSEA 2024 between October 27 and November 1, with a total of 1,313,913 Grade 6 students across Kenya sitting for the exam, whose key purpose is to monitor learner progress as they proceed to Junior School.
“Assessments are critical to the educational process. Without them, teachers would never know when to move on to the next concept or how to enhance understanding of concepts when facilitating learning,” KNEC states in the Competency-Based Assessment Framework for the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), under which KPSEA lies.
KPSEA’s main objective is to establish the levels of achievement among Grade 6 learners in English, Mathematics, Kiswahili, Integrated Science, and Creative Arts and Social Studies.
In CBC, learners are assessed at each of the Upper Primary grades (4, 5, 6) to track their learning progress ahead of the national assessment at Grade 6. The school-based assessments will account for 60 per cent of the total score, while KPSEA comprises the remaining 40 per cent of the total score at the end of the primary cycle.
“Performance of the learners at this level and their interests will be used to place them in junior secondary schools,” KNEC says.
CBC’s KPSEA 2024 marked a historical turning point for the country because it was the first time there was no summative national examination in the form of the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE), which was first administered in 1985 when the 8-4-4 system was established. The last KCPE was held last-last year (2023).
Moving away from tradition, the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Julius Migos Ogamba, said the nation will no longer be holding ceremonies to release the results of KPSEA, as had been the case with KCPE in previous years. This, he said, aligns with the spirit of CBC, which aims to reduce the competition that is traditionally associated with national examinations.
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