CXC begins standardization process for NGSA 2024 marking

The Director of Operations at the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Dr. Nicole Manning, and a team have commenced the standardization process for marking the National Grade Six Assessment 2024 scripts. This follows other processes, such as batching, which started last week.
The standardization process that is led by Dr. Manning, along with Chiefs, Assistant Chief Examiners (Table Lead), and markers, is a thorough part of the marking process.
During the standardization process, the examiners would be marking sample scripts and discussing to ensure all plausible responses are included in the mark scheme, to guarantee that each child is given the best possible opportunity to be marked fairly and accurately.
Dr. Manning has stressed the importance of standardization, as this process eliminates any possible subjectivity and other hazards, and gives reassurance that all markers are marking at the same level. The marking process continues next week. The results are expected to be released on or before July 10, 2024.
Back in 2021, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), for the first time since it began setting, marking and managing the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA),
completed a process of verification to ensure that the scores that were earned by the candidates are recorded and reflected accurately and fairly in the candidates placements. Chief Examiners and Assistant Chief Examiners employed by CXC have checked an appropriate sample of the NGSA examination scripts. These scripts, which were housed in containers specially sealed by CXC in a manner that would allow detection of any tampering, have been opened in the presence of the CXC Supervisor.
Initially, quality checking was done by the Testing Unit of the National Centre for Education Resource Development (NCERD).
The Ministry of Education aims, with these new measures, to conduct level-appropriate exams that are fairly and transparently marked, and that bear the CXC mark of integrity for which the examining body is renowned across the world.