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The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) under a mandate from fifteen territories of the English speaking Caribbean region (Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent, Trinidad & Tobago, and the Turks & Caicos Islands), has been constructing and administering secondary school certificate examinations since 1979. These territories are members of the regional organization, the Caribbean Community for Economic and Social Development (CARICOM). They spread across the Caribbean Sea, blue and green, in a crescent of islands and two mainland territories from Belize in the northwest to Guyana in the south, cover a total land area of about 258,000 km2 and have a population of 5.5 million approximately.
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Broomes, D.R., Halliday, J.A. (1993). Major Issues in Assessing Mathematics Performance at 16+ Level: A Caribbean Perspective. In: Niss, M. (eds) Cases of Assessment in Mathematics Education. New ICMI Study Series, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0980-4_3
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