[kictanet] KCSE

[alice wanjira]

I don't know what the fuss is about the errors in KCSE...in fact getting an
education. Why not just pass a law that prohibits anybody from learning
anything? If it works then we shall have the smartest people in the world.

On 10/04/2008, Dorcas Muthoni <dmuthoni at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Well,
>
> Whatever might have gone wrong should to be corrected:
>
>    1. Students must receive the correct marks, the KCSE results are
>    really key to anyones career and it's is very important that candidates feel
>    they are holding the result which they indeed achieved.
>    2. To ensure that whatever error in data mining or otherwise is
>    corrected, this can only be guaranteed through a code audit. That
>    application can be vetted and there really software houses that can do this.
>    I hope Bwana PS will assist in ensuring ICT is seen as a positive
>    contributor. This is now turning out to be a software issue and its
>    important that we take note of the questions that may arise with regard to
>    locally produced software.
>
> Muthoni
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 4:34 PM, <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> > My earlier e-mail to Aduda has elisted direct questions as to how the
> > programing error could have occured.  Usually errors such as the one
> > explained by the Minister occur during Data Mining.
> >
> > Researchers generally define data mining (sometimes called data or
> > knowledge discovery) as the process of analyzing data from different
> > perspectives and summarizing it into useful information - information
> > that
> > can be used to increase revenue, cuts costs, or both. Data mining
> > software
> > is one of a number of analytical tools for analyzing data. It allows
> > users
> > to analyze data from many different dimensions or angles, categorize it,
> > and summarize the relationships identified. Technically, data mining is
> > the process of finding correlations or patterns among dozens of fields
> > in
> > large relational databases like KCSE.
> >
> > Data does not automatically become information unless it is mined
> > properly.
> >
> >
> > Ndemo
> >
> >
> >
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