MONTEGO BAY, St James — Owen Speid, president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, says the organisation is satisfied with the methodology used by the Government for students' Primary Exit Profile (PEP) placements.
PEP is a series of assessments for grade four to six students at the primary level that has replaced the Grade Six Achievement Test.
Last Friday the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Information released the results of the assessment and announced student placements which were done based on their grade four literacy and numeracy test scores, the grade five performance test results, and the results of the grade six ability test.
According to the education ministry, 100 per cent of the 38,918 students who were eligible for the PEP assessment have been placed in high schools.
Addressing the JTA's St James annual general meeting via Zoom on Monday, Speid told the teachers that while most students would have preferred the top three placements out of the seven schools of their choice, some were placed in their fourth or fifth school of choice.
