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World Class Exams – Syllabus Development

Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Level Competence

®
(CCSLC )

“This programme will foster the development of Specific Objective was deleted as it was already subsumed
twenty-first (21 ) Century skills such as creativity, in another objective. Changes were made to the Content,
st
collaboration, communication, problem solving, Suggested Teaching and Learning Activities and Assessment
critical thinking and innovation. It encourages the for all the modules where they were deemed necessary. The
use of a variety of teaching, learning and assessment suggested List of Resources was also updated.
strategies to develop the aforementioned skills
while catering to multiple intelligences and different The final draft of the syllabus along with the specimen
learning styles. This course of study also incorporates examination papers, keys and mark schemes will be submitted
the features of Science, Technology, Mathematics, for approval by SUBSEC in October 2021. The approved
and Engineering (STEM) principles. On completion of syllabus along with the specimen examination papers, keys
this programme, learners will have a solid foundation and mark schemes will be distributed to schools in May–June
for further studies as well as to function efficiently in 2022, for first examination in May–June 2024.
their everyday lives.”
MATHEMATICS
Aim 5, appreciate the need to contribute to sustainable A Panel meeting was held in May 2019. The Panellists reviewed
development through living in harmony with the environment and refined all aspects of the draft syllabus. Each module was
was revised to read, increase awareness of the need to carefully reviewed to ensure that the depth and scope of the
contribute to sustainable development through living in Specific Objectives and the Content were clear. While no
harmony with the environment. A new Aim 7, integrate emerging Specific Objective was deleted and no new one was added to
Information, Communication and Technological (ICT) tools and Module 1, several of the related Content for different Specific
skills was also written to bring them in line with the Rationale. Objectives along with the Suggested Teaching and Learning
The Competencies to Be Assessed was revised to include Activities and Assessment were revised. In Module 2, four
Knowledge and Comprehension, and Use of Knowledge. Specific Objectives were rewritten. The relevant Content was
The competence Observation and Reporting was changed added as there was none in the draft document. An additional
to Observation, Recording and Reporting. All these changes Assessment activity was also included. For Module 3, one
were made to mirror the skills and profiles that are assessed in new Specific Objective 4, identify plane shapes based on
the science subjects at the CSEC® and CAPE® levels with the the number of sides, was written to precede the now Specific
exception of Human and Social Biology which does not place a Objective 5, state the properties of a given plane shape, as the
heavy emphasis on the assessment of the experimental skills. members of the Panel were of the opinion that the students
must be able to identify plane shapes before they can state
Each Module was carefully reviewed to ensure that General the properties. The Content for all the Specific Objectives in
Objectives included covered the cognitive, psychomotor and the Module were either revised or rewritten and some of the
affective domains and the depth and scope of the Specific Suggested Teaching and Learning Activities and Assessment
Objectives and the Content were clear. Three new Specific activities were modified. Most of the changes in Module 4
Objectives were added to Module 1, Working Like a Scientist were made to the Content, the Suggested Teaching and
and the Specific Objectives under the topic were rearranged Learning Activities and Assessment in an effort to clarify the
into a more logical teaching sequence. In Module 4, one Specific Objectives. For Module 5 one new Specific Objectives

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