Grenada sees slight increase in students' performance in CPEA 2023
Students in Grenada have received results of the 2023 Caribbean Primary Exit Assessment (CPEA), with the Ministry of Education noting a slight improvement in the performance of students this year.
Although this year, the ministry will not be publicly publishing the scores and rankings of students; it has provided an analysis of the overall performance of students.
The ministry says 1,877 students were registered for the Assessment in 2023, and 1,858 students who sat the external component of CPEA 2023 have all been assigned to a secondary school. The remaining 17 students who were absent would be supported to sit the assessment in 2024.
The Ministry of Education says 95.8 per cent of the CPEA candidates writing the assessment in 2023 obtained 50 per cent or more. This reflects an improvement of 4.1 per cent compared with 91.7 per cent achieving the same mark in 2022.
The national mean for 2023 is 72.21. This reflects a small but significant improvement of 3.62 per cent against 68.59 in 2022.
In 2021, the national mean was 69.69.
In the external component, students performed best in Science. Out of a possible score of 100, the national mean in Science was 66.07, an improvement of 6.19 against 2022’s 59.88.
A slight drop was seen in Mathematics, shifting from 53.88 in 2022 to 53.56 in 2023.
The subject Language Arts document the most significant increase, from a mean score of 46.92 in 2022 to 59.75.
The mean for the Social Studies external component in 2022 was 59.87 compared to 60.30 in 2023.
In the internal assessment, the best performance was recorded in Social Studies, followed by Language Arts, Science and Mathematics.
The mean score in Language Arts, internal component was 84.89 and Mathematics mean score was 84.43.
It was noted that 1,348 students attained 50 per cent or above in the internal component of the examination. In comparison, 1,875 students achieved the 50 per cent or above mark in the internal part of the examination.
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