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Rank: Veteran Joined: 8/25/2012 Posts: 1,826
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any system that gets rid of kcpe and kcse and replaces the same with continuous assessment test will be better
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Rank: Member Joined: 1/27/2012 Posts: 851 Location: Nairobi
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tycho wrote:The proposed system, the thinking and politics behind it, the implementation ... all lead to failure.
It's a case of the blind leading the blind into quicksand. Isn't this the sort of system most of the 'Americanized' world use?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/22/2009 Posts: 2,449 Location: Africa
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:any system that gets rid of kcpe and kcse and replaces the same with continuous assessment test will be better Will the CAT's be standardized? Will they become mini KCPEs? I don't get it. How will universities do their intakes?
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/19/2010 Posts: 3,505 Location: Uganda
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I have had a chance of working with interns, I can tell you the current system is churning out very half-baked graduates. Imagine a university graduate who can't write a cheque in words and figures correctly! punda amecheka
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Rank: User Joined: 8/15/2013 Posts: 13,237 Location: Vacuum
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newfarer wrote:I have had a chance of working with interns, I can tell you the current system is churning out very half-baked graduates. Imagine a university graduate who can't write a cheque in words and figures correctly!  Kes 100,002....One Hundred and Two Thousand shillings only If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 1/3/2014 Posts: 1,063
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I watched a TED video explaining how the current education system came about and what is ailing the current education system. RINKHe talks of current education system initially used in industrialization to make the workers behave and do the same thing. The reality however is that we are all diverse and therefore we cannot all behave the same way and therefore the metrics for measuring education are rigged. That is what needs to be addressed in the current education system.We need to accommodate diversity both in learning and in testing. Consistency is better than intensity
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Rank: Member Joined: 7/27/2014 Posts: 560 Location: Eastlando
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newfarer wrote:I have had a chance of working with interns, I can tell you the current system is churning out very half-baked graduates. Imagine a university graduate who can't write a cheque in words and figures correctly! Last time i was at home, i realised a big difference between a european teenager and a kenyan teenager.You can discuss almost everything with a european teenager, the same cannot be said of our teenagers. I had a feeling our kids are ten years behind. They are shy, lack decorum and manners and cant express themselves coherently.There is also a huge difference between 8.4.4 graduates and graduates from that old system. Guys from the old system are more sure of themselves and possess survival skills that our kids lack
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 8/25/2012 Posts: 1,826
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Shak wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:any system that gets rid of kcpe and kcse and replaces the same with continuous assessment test will be better Will the CAT's be standardized? Will they become mini KCPEs? I don't get it. How will universities do their intakes? the teachers will be required to get of their behinds and do their work, teach and test the kids, after all its the teacher who knows the kids well, and thats what they are paid to do. The universities will use the teachers recommendation, i.e the tests and reports to do their intake, they might add an aptitude test when admitting, lakini they will also be required to get of their behinds and look for kids who fit their institutions, after all they are the ones who know their institutions better and they know who can fit or not.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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Our views on education need to be informed by views of the kind of citizens are needed in an age where there are great advances in technology, cities are becoming more complex and populous and politics more and more intriguing. For example, corporate organizations will be more politically conspicuous.
How will Kenyans live? Education in the 21st century demands visionary leadership, and equally visionary citizenship.
So, for example, children should be trained on tools like critical thinking, research, community sustainance, technology and manufacture- robotics ...
And, exams and assesment tests? No way! Let's focus on making. Let's make the children make things that can sustain themselves in an interactive environment called the 'morphosphere'.
As cities grow more populous, then even places of living would be work places. One's own existence is their work.
All these changes are needed now because they are happening now. We are lagging behind in terms of intellectual capital, which could as well be the greatest asset a people can ever have.
Before the cities become smart, let the citizens be smarter.
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 8/25/2012 Posts: 1,826
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Fullykenyan wrote:newfarer wrote:I have had a chance of working with interns, I can tell you the current system is churning out very half-baked graduates. Imagine a university graduate who can't write a cheque in words and figures correctly! Last time i was at home, i realised a big difference between a european teenager and a kenyan teenager.You can discuss almost everything with a european teenager, the same cannot be said of our teenagers. I had a feeling our kids are ten years behind. They are shy, lack decorum and manners and cant express themselves coherently.There is also a huge difference between 8.4.4 graduates and graduates from that old system. Guys from the old system are more sure of themselves and possess survival skills that our kids lack wacha bias Did you try discussing with the kenyan teenager in their mother toungue, did you discuss with the kenyan teenager about baba and uk, shida you are discussing with a Kenyan teenager in a foreign language about foreign issues, of course they will falter, try discussing with that european kid in swahili and ask them about issues africa.
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