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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. That is a very elaborate question. First, the summative KPSEA is administered at the end of the upper primary. For the year 2022, the assessment was administered from the 28th to 30th November. The assessment sought to establish the levels of achievement among grade six learners in English language, mathematics, Kiswahili, Kenyan Sign Language, Integrated Science, Creative Arts and Social Studies. It was administered through written tests that had multiple choice tasks. The purpose of KPSEA is to establish the level of mastery of competencies among learners in the various learning areas. This is in line with the recommendations of the Presidential Working Party on education reform. In its first progress report to His Excellency the President on 1st December, 2022, the Presidential Working Party recommended that KPSEA would be a continuous assessment for monitoring learners’ progress and achievements and not for purposes of placement of learners to grade seven. As indicated in the report, the specific objectives of KPSEA, which is, listed from A to H--- I do not require to go into each and every specific area listed as to what the purpose of this is. The assessment was guided by the Competence Based Assessment Framework for the age-based pathways, which recommends an assessment at every end of upper primary. It is important to know that the summative assessment was preceded by a school-based assessment, which started at grade four. The school-based assessment comprise classroom assessment conducted by teachers. The teachers are guided in the curriculum designs on the activities to carry out to access learner progress and to develop approve remedial action. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this was reinforced by the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) providing standardized tools for this assessment at grades four, five and six in all learning areas of upper primary. They are given opportunity to work out individually and in groups and with the support of resource persons including parents and teachers. The assessment tools include written tests, projects, practical performance tasks, observation checklist, oral and portfolio assessments. Out of this assessment, 60 per cent is based in the school. Commonly known as formative and 40 per cent which they sit for at the end of grade six is commonly known as summative. The scores are analyzed and the reports are used as feedback to the stakeholders. The learners, parents and teachers received instant feedback after the formative assessment. For the summative KPSEA assessment, schools were provided with specific reports that highlighted the performance of candidates in each learning area. The gaps and the suggestive remedies were also given in those particular reports. I have given the breakdown of the numbers as indicated in that table, of all the candidates. A total of 1,194,600 out of the 1,212,000 learners have enrolled in junior secondary schools, translating to a transition rate of 98.54 per cent. It is also shown in the annex. I have shown the numbers for each county and how they transitioned to junior secondary. To answer the second part of the question; the domiciling of junior secondary school in primary schools was also done following the recommendation of the Presidential Working Party and of course, having received information as to what was"
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