The National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) has said the change of Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) assessment model affected the performance of many pupils last year whose teachers have not yet adjusted to train their learners to answer questions using knowledge from daily life.
Mr Santus Cale, the NCDC Integrated Science specialist, told Daily Monitor at the weekend their new guidelines to Uganda National Examinations Board (Uneb) in assessing PLE, require that candidates are able to interpret the questions and apply their daily experiences to answer them. The new changes were introduced in 2018.
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