School boards of secondary education and mbo want to 'calculate' platform
The school boards in secondary education and MBO want to set up a platform together to guarantee and monitor the quality of the math exams. The ministry must support them in this, the boards report after the education ministers previously clarified the new calculation policy.
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Last week, education ministers Ingrid van Engelshoven (D66) and Arie Slob (ChristenUnie) known that from now on schools can take their own school or institutional exam for arithmetic and can fill in the subject as they see fit. The national calculation test comes to an end.
Secondary schools and MBO institutions are concerned. They believe that the math exams are not easily comparable in this way and that it cannot be established whether a pupil or student has the required math skills.
Quality
Ze argue therefore for a platform in which calculations are made, developed and checked. Schools can submit their own assignments. Determining the quality is important, because secondary vocational schools have a maintenance obligation when it comes to arithmetic. "It is unacceptable if they would feel compelled to take incoming feeders to calculate admission tests prior to the vocational training," the boards said in a letter to the Lower House.
The school boards want the ministry to provide financial support to set up the platform. 'We expect the government to speed up the further elaboration of the policy and to realize the preconditions for setting up the platform with calculations and exams as soon as possible,' the boards write.
