KNEC addresses Concerns of how National Exams are standardised.
KNEC addresses Concerns of how National Exams are standardised; After KCPE was announced, A section of Kenyans complained while others went to court to raise complaints about the marking process.
Consequently, National Assembly Committee on Education, led by Tinderet Member of Parliament Julius Melly, wrote a letter to the Education Ministry requesting them to respond.
Some of the issues included; expedited marking of Exams, use of mobile service providers to transmit the results and the justification of charging the public x1 to receive results, the marking processes, awarding of marks, and anomalies in capturing of marks, among others.
Njengere explained that in 2023, they adopted the standardisation criteria by computing raw score means performance and standard deviation that is mapped to the percentage scale of normal distribution of mean score of 50 and the standard deviations of 15 and 12 for MCQ and composition papers respectively.
KNEC CEO explained,”Standardisation of raw marks to standard marks is a process that involves adjusting the raw marks for each paper in the exam to allow for differences in difficulty and in the extent to which marks scatter.”
Notably, the examination council has warned Candidates of falling prey to fraudsters who claim to assist candidates score high marks just by sharing their index numbers.
KNEC stated,”Do not fall prey to fraudsters purporting to be able to adjust KCSE scores. Absolutely no one can influence the scores of any national examination.”