PEP spin doctor won't fool me
Published:Tuesday | November 27, 2018 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
I am writing in response to Marlon Morgan's letter published on November 27, 2018 ('The facts on PEP mock exam'). No doubt, this technical person out of Heroes Circle is just another spin doctor placed out there to continue the public relations exercise in recent months.
Stakeholders have made it clear that mere PR exercises cannot resolve the issues regarding the roll-out of the Primary Exit Profile (PEP). It is ever so clear that these technocrats down at the Ministry of Education need to be retrained in 'Testing and Evaluation 101', as they have started to mix red herring with apples when they use similar measures for CSEC in a bid to compare PEP. If they were mixing mangoes and apples, at least we could understand, as those are both fruits.
The leader of the Opposition rightly suggested only recently that our children are being used as guinea pigs in a programme that has been inadequately prepared and which condemns them to failure from the start.
The Heroes Circle team needs to look in the mirror and address this shaky start. They need to also check with Michael-Anthony Dobson-Lewis, the specialist quoted in the story 'Ministry wrong to compare PEP with CSEC', published on November 27, 2018.
R. PINADO