Students this year do not have to sit the Fiji lslands Literacy and Numeracy Assessment or FILNA as it will be phased out.
However, this will be replaced by the Literacy and Numeracy Assessment or LANA.
This has been confirmed by Education Minister Filipe Bole who said LANA is strictly a classroom based assessment exercise to determine students' literacy and numeracy skills.
Bole said under FILNA, papers were marked by Examination staff however under LANA the teachers themselves are going to mark the papers adding while FILNA results are made available between two to three months, LANA results are immediate.
He adds an important component of the assessment is remedial exercise, in FILNA intervention is slightly delayed and often no longer relevant whereas in LANA remedial intervention at class and student level is immediate and relevant.
FILNA was an assessment exercise that tests classes four and six literacy and numeracy skills.
FILNA to be phased out
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