For some observers, this high success rate would thus tend to demonstrate that the level of requirement for CEB tests would be too low.
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During the electoral campaign last June, the MR notably pleaded for an increase in this level of requirement (from 50 % to 60 %). Since then, the party has taken orders from the ministry. “”My obsession will be to increase students’ basic skills: read, write, count“, Confirmed us last July Valérie Glatigny, appointed by the MR to put on the costume of Minister of Compulsory Education.
“KEY”
Within the minister’s office, we are confirmed that the work on the reassessment of the CEB’s success threshold are “in progress“. Without further comment.
“If we put the threshold for success above, it would then be a test that would become selective, which would sort out students“, However, had warned, last July, Dominique Lafontaine, professor emeritus in the education sciences of the Uliège and specialist in evaluation processes. Before insisting:”However, this is not at all vocation. The CEB makes it possible to identify the students who are in difficulty to allow them to follow remediations“.
In reality, the majority MR-Engagues are preparing to anticipate this stage in a way.
On April 18, the government of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation adopted a preliminary draft decree at first reading installing a “key test” at the start of the fourth year. “Key”, to “calculate, read, write”.
Diagnostic
This new external evaluation should, subject to validation by the legislative, be organized in all the schools of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation from the 2026-2027 school year.
The objective pursued is to identify any difficulties as soon as possible, in order to offer pupils in difficulty personalized support during the fourth year, and thus allow them to absorb their delay.
“We are more and more confronted with students who, once arrived in secondary, or even in the superior, do not understand the questions asked for them, do not know how to read a graphic, or perform simple calculations. This leads to a significant failure rate, even a dropout. It is therefore fundamental that any difficulty related to basic knowledge is detected as soon as possible, hence this external and common standardized evaluation which aims to confirm the learning acquired, and detect those who are not yet “, specifies Valérie Glatigny.
Important detail: this new test will be not certificating. In other words, “It does not require any prior preparation“and will therefore be”Without pressure for families“, Specifies the cabinet of the Minister. Which insists:”The results will make it possible to identify the acquisition of basic knowledge, and in their absence, will give the teacher the possibility of re -explaining the matter or explaining it otherwise“.
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