The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is set to undergo a radical transformation through artificial intelligence, marking “the beginning of the end of CXC as we know it”, the regional exam board’s chief executive announced Wednesday.Speaking at the 4th Ministerial Summit, Registrar and CEO Dr Wayne Wesley unveiled an ambitious five-year strategic plan to reshape the examination body into a “digitally transformed enterprise providing quality, relevant educational services.”The summit, themed Artificial Intelligence and Technological Innovations in Shaping Caribbean Education, heard how AI technology would be leveraged to create personalised learning experiences and address declining academic performance, particularly in mathematics.“AI has come to really change the mundane and allow us to do a lot more things efficiently,” Dr Wesley told delegates, suggesting that traditional teaching methods were failing to engage today’s students.Drawing an analogy with the popular mobile game Candy Crush, Dr Wesley challenged educators: “Can you imagine students just wanting to crush that level of mathematics, crush that next level of algebra, crush that next level of matrix?”
