Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (LASUBEB) has introduced the Let’s Mark App for the 2022/2023 term two end-of-term examinations for the EKOEXCEL programme.
This is to further build on its impact, improve its process and ensure head teachers and teachers maintain the highest possible standard in giving their best to pupils.
Commenting on the App’s benefits, LASUBEB Chairman Wahab Alawiye-King said the introduction of the App had further positioned Lagos State public primary schools as a leader in transformative public education reform in Nigeria through the use of technology, thereby enabling widespread acceptance of EKOEXCEL among stakeholders within the Lagos State political class, including end users of the programme.
He said: “The app allows teachers to quickly and accurately mark multiple choice exams, using the school leader’s smartphone.
“The teacher uses the app to ‘scan’ the answer sheet. The app, in turn, automatically marks responses and identifies incorrect responses. The teacher then marks the incorrect answers on the paper.”
“The app also uploads all item-level data to remote servers. Let’s Mark can also be used with thermal printers. Thermal printers are small battery-powered printers that print the results of an exam for each pupil. “The printout includes the pupil’s details, the answers to questions the pupil answers incorrectly, and a QR code that links to either the exam PDF or to the mobile quizzing platform.”
The App was introduced as a pilot phase to 200 select Lagos State public primary schools prior to the end-of-term examinations, where the teachers underwent a week-long capacity-building exercise on how to use the App, facilitated by LASUBEB’s BEQA Mentoring Field Officers.
Furthermore, as part of the pilot phase, the Let’s Mark is only applicable to Supplementary Maths (Numeracy Levels C-E) exams. Other syllabus subjects will be introduced in the future.
Speaking about the use of the App during the end of term two examinations, Mrs. Francisca Okafo, head teacher of Federal Housing Estate Primary School, Victoria Island, Lagos hailed the introduction of the Let’s Mark App.
She said: “The Let’s Mark App is a very commendable one. It will ease the stress of going through exam scripts to mark one after the other.”
