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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : No GSAT For Students Who Failed Literacy Test ( Gleaner )...</span>
A NUMBER of students who failed to master the Grade Four Literacy Test are to be prevented from participating in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) when the next sitting of the exam takes place in March.The students, who failed to master the test after four attempts, will instead be placed in designated centres under the Alternative Secondary Education Programe (ASEP) in September.According to Grace McLean, the chief education officer, the issue is to be discussed in Parliament today.Though she could not give much more information, McLean said students who did not meet the requirements of being literate in last December's sitting of the literacy exam would be exposed to special training to get them on par with the other students. But president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Nadine Molloy-Young, said with only one month left before the sitting of the GSAT, the announcement was too sudden.Molloy-Young argued that while the JTA supported any intervention that was directed at improving literacy, the associa-tion had not been informed of the withdrawal of students from this sitting of the exam."It took me a bit by surprise. I didn't know it would happen now, and we would have preferred to get longer notice so that we could consult some more on the matter," she charged.
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Confirmed : No GSAT For Students Who Failed Literacy Test ( Gleaner )...</span>
A NUMBER of students who failed to master the Grade Four Literacy Test are to be prevented from participating in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) when the next sitting of the exam takes place in March.The students, who failed to master the test after four attempts, will instead be placed in designated centres under the Alternative Secondary Education Programe (ASEP) in September.According to Grace McLean, the chief education officer, the issue is to be discussed in Parliament today.Though she could not give much more information, McLean said students who did not meet the requirements of being literate in last December's sitting of the literacy exam would be exposed to special training to get them on par with the other students. But president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), Nadine Molloy-Young, said with only one month left before the sitting of the GSAT, the announcement was too sudden.Molloy-Young argued that while the JTA supported any intervention that was directed at improving literacy, the associa-tion had not been informed of the withdrawal of students from this sitting of the exam."It took me a bit by surprise. I didn't know it would happen now, and we would have preferred to get longer notice so that we could consult some more on the matter," she charged.