My fix for GSAT placement woes

My fix for GSAT placement woes – Commentary – Jamaica Gleaner – Sunday | November 6, 2011.

 2010 data show that:

1. The top-five schools, as judged by student preference, have 1,300 places; 9,000 students selected these schools as their first choice.

2. The top-10 schools, judged by student preferences had a total 2,565 places; 14,000 students selected them as first choice.

3. The top-20 schools, judged by student preferences had a total of 4,720 places; 24,239 selected these schools as first choices.

4. In 2011, Campion College, which has 210 places, had 1,635 students selecting the school as their first choice. That suggests that only one in every eight students would be successful in ‘passing’ for Campion.

Critical information already acquired from the GSAT review. How can we manage expectations and increase the number of “preferred schools”

Proposed solution

While the long-term solutions exist in the improvement of all schools to a minimum standard and the establishment of a minimum infrastructural blessing that includes an equipped science lab, computer lab, study area, library, playing field and canteen, there is need for a short-term solution which I suggest exists in a model I term the Realistic Objective School Selection Scenarios (ROSSS).

Interesting short term approach. Has the review term or the foreign review consultant been given access to this proposal?