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Tests for Math Teachers in Costa Rica
Mathematics teachers who request a permanent post with the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) in Costa Rica will have to pass an examination. Thereby, the Ministry aims to ensure that these educators have mastery over the content and reduce the possibility that students will not properly learn all of the material. Teachers have not had to pass an exam up until now. Their only requirement had been to have a teaching degree.
The test will allow the MEP in Costa Rica to train the teachers who do not pass the test and hire them again when they overcome their deficiencies. Alejandrina Mata, academic vice minister of Education, said that the test will be given beginning with the next school year.
This means that it will not be a requirement for math teachers who have already applied to qualify for a permanent post. There are about 3,000 educators on the list, said Mata. However, these teachers could take the test to detect any weaknesses they might have and then receive training. “The test will not be applied to current applicants because it would be changing the rules of game,” explained vice minister Mata.
The Ministry will ask math teachers to solve the test in order to validate it this month. In this manner, questions which are not properly presented can be identified. “A decision such as this is very serious and the test must go through the phases that enable validation,” said Mata.
A similar mechanism is being applied to English teachers in Costa Rica. New applicants must demonstrate their mastery of the language through a test. Moreover, since last year, MEP has been training English teachers who have shown they are deficient in their mastery of the language.
As long as the tests are well thought out and presented properly, this is a good idea because there are still teachers in the system who do not have the adequate characteristics to provide a quality education in Costa Rica.
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