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World Class Exams – Syllabus Development






            CXC® LEARNING HUB






            Content Creation                                    User Support
            The Content Creation and Resource Development for Level   A number of initiatives were undertaken to support users
            1  and  2  resources  resulted  in  the  attainment  of  the  agreed   with a view to improving access and user experience.  This
            targets and the publication of:                     included  the  monitoring,  responding, resolving  the  issues
            1.   95 Practice Tests (51 at the CAPE® level, 36 for CSEC®,   raised by stakeholders.  The platform functionality was
               4 for CCSLC® and 4 for CPEA™);                   improved to include announcement  features, feedback
            2.  364 Subject Reports;                            opportunities, reports and analytics.  To further increase the
            3.  6 Exemplars;                                    user experience adjustments were also made to the  CVQ*
            4.  4,568 levels 1 (curated) and level 2 (created) resources   and CPEA™ portals on the platform.  The team also on boarded
               which include a wide range of resources including   two vendors namely Macmillan and BookFusion.  Through
               simulations;                                     these arrangements, students will be able to purchase
            5.  37 Study Guides Samples as flipbooks and PDFs   electronic copies of past papers and textbooks to support their
               (21 CSEC® and 16 CAPE®); and,                    preparation for examination.
            6.  7 revised and amended syllabuses uploaded both as
               Flipbooks and PDFs. (See Table 2)                User Engagement
                                                                In order to obtain an overall feel of the level of satisfaction being
            Table 2: Number of Revised and Amended Syllabuses   experienced by users of the Learning Hub a Perception Survey
            Uploaded to the CXC® Learning Hub in 2020           was designed and launched in July 2020. The satisfaction rate
             LEVEL   SYLLABUS                                   for 2020 was approximately 75 per cent.
                     1.   Human and Social Biology
                     2.  Caribbean History
             CSEC®
                     3.  Music
                     4.  Additional Mathematics
                     1.  Entrepreneurship
             CAPE®   2.  Logistics and Supply Chain Operations
                     3.  Caribbean Studies


            User Growth
            This user growth data is used to monitor the growth and
            retention on the Learning Hub.  In September 2020 the 2020
            target of 20,000 was surpassed. There is a total of 20,729
            active users from 19 territories on the  CXC® Learning Hub.
            Additionally,  over  600  instructors  from  19  territories  have
            classes on the Learning Hub.








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