Education
MOE Reports: Turks & Caicos Sixth Graders Score Higher on 2023 CPEA
By Dana Malcolm
Staff Writer
#TurksandCaicos, June 18, 2023 – The results of the Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA) for the Turks and Caicos this year are now in and while it is still struggling slightly in mathematics, the results show a marked improvement on Covid-19 era tests.
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Overall the majority of schools and students performed well, of the 425 who sat exams 47 (11 percent)students were graded in the advanced competence bracket; 226 (53.1 percent)in the competence bracket; 135 near competence (31.7 percent) and only 17 in developing competence (4 percent).
The students sit four exams each year: Math, Social Studies, Civics and Science and are judged based on their scores on a scale of advanced competency (highest) to developing competency (lowest).
In 2022 of the 427 candidates who were assessed 26 (6.08 percent) were developing competence; 175 or 40.98 percent were near competence; 201 or 47.0& percent were competence, and 25 or 5.85 percent demonstrated advanced competence.
Turks and Caicos students this year received especially good marks in Science. A total of 89 students ranked as advanced competent; while 210 others ranked as competent; 109 students were near competent; and 17 were developing competent.
By contrast in mathematics 31 students ranked as advanced competence; 151 in the competence level ; 194 were marked near competence; and 49 marked developing competence.
Languages and civics fell squarely in the middle with 68 and 60 students marked in advanced competence
Ona Glinton Primary school and Oseta Jolly primary performed exceptionally, tying for the most students scoring in the overall advanced competency bracket (eight each). Of Ona Glinton’s 31 students 18 were marked competent and 5 near competence. They had no students scoring in the developing competence bracket.
Of Oseta Jolly’s 56 students they had 30 in the competence category; 17 marked near competence and one marked developing competence.
In addition, of the seven students who scored over 450 marks out of 500 Oseta Jolly and Ona Glinton both had two students each, the only schools to double rank on that list while the top student was from the BEST Institute; Richmond Hill Prep and Shining Stars Prep also made an appearance on the list.
Thelma Lightbourne Primary, Richmond Hill Preparatory and Eliza Simons were the only other schools to have more than four students in the advanced competency bracket with five, six and four respectively.