Opposition Spokesperson on Education Dr. Angela Brown Burke - file photo
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Dr. Angela Brown Burke
The Parliamentary Opposition is calling for the Performance Task component of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) to be scrapped this year.
Earlier this week, Spokesperson on Education Dr. Angela Brown Burke said the Education Ministry should allow Grade 6 students to sit the PEP Ability Assessment in March instead of this month.
She said the disruption in face-to-face classes due to the COVID-19 pandemic has placed pressure on students.
Dr. Brown Burke said it is unfair to ask students to undertake all the activities for PEP given the significant learning loss.
"There are some students who have only now started to get back into that routine of face-to-face classes, of the discipline, of the learning and all of that. There are some students who were not present in early January. Teachers have had to go out, find them and bring them back in the classroom. So what we find is that the students are really, just now - many of them - settling down and taking seriously the exams and tests and the learning that should have been taking place," she asserted, insisting "they need time".
Dr. Brown Burke, who was speaking Thursday on the Morning Agenda on Power 106, warned that based on feedback from a number of teachers, the majority of Grade 6 students will not do well in the PEP exams.
She suggested that even though the exam will be marked on a curve, the psychological and emotional strain on students would not work in their favour.
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