colleges this year have to sit for supplementary examinations after performing poorly in some
subjects.
The deputy executive secretary of the National Examinations Council of Tanzania (NECTA), Dr Charles Msonde, however, said 63 per cent of the students passed all exams, hence qualified.
Dr Msonde said yesterday that students normally study a total of nine subjects in the teaching course.
“It’s not that those who sit the supplementary examinations have failed course; but they have
failed in a few subjects for which they have the opportunity to repeat,” he said.
He was speaking in Dar es Salaam at Necta’s headquarters when briefing journalists on the forthcoming international meeting in Arusha whose aim is to look at enhancing assessment practices for quality education.
The five-day meeting to be held from August 12 to 16 would pull together member countries of the Association for Educational Assessment in Africa (AEAA).
That would be the 31st meeting since the association was formed in 1982, and with this year’s conference the Necta would have so far hosted five of them in the country.
During the conference, in which about 400 participants are expected to attend, there will be discussions on innovation in assessment practices and their implications in improving quality of education.
The role of classroom assessment practices is to improve the quality of education. Other areas for brainstorming would include the impact of information and communication technology in educational assessment and the relationship between continuous assessment and final examination score: implications on the quality of education.
The participants will include experts on educational assessment from different countries of Africa,
Europe, America and Asia.
