Minister of Education and Higher Education H E Dr Mohammed bin Abdul Wahed Ali Al Hammadi yesterday issued a ministerial decision on the system of national tests in public schools, stipulating that this system be replaced by standardised achievement tests, in order to measure the level of academic achievement of school students, and be carried out within the curriculum designed for the second semester at the end of the third, sixth and ninth levels.
Under the ministerial decision, the Student Assessment Office at the Ministry is tasked with overseeing the organisation of standardised achievement tests, and exam preparation committees shall be formed by a decision from the Undersecretary of the Ministry, and its membership comprises representatives from the student assessment and educational guidance offices and schools.
In the same context, H E the Minister of Education and Higher Education issued a ministerial decision yesterday to form a committee to establish a national evaluation system for state schools, aiming to provide data on the level of performance of schools and the extent of the development of students’ learning, in order to develop the indicators used by the Ministry to measure the quality of education in state schools and the effectiveness of curricula in order to establish the necessary plans to develop the educational process.
Under this decision, the committee is chaired by the Undersecretary of the Ministry, and comprises three members from the Ministry, one from the educational field, one from Qatar University and one from Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
This committee is responsible for developing a national assessment system to assess the skills and abilities of school students.
The committee should take into account the age or study level of the students under evaluation, the establishment of a mechanism for determining the schools and segments of the students selected for the evaluation, the identification of subjects presented to the evaluation process.
The decision stipulates that the committee will complete all its work and submit its recommendations to H E the Minister on December 1 this year, and is allowed to use the expertise and competence it deems appropriate within and outside the ministry to provide advice in order to accomplish its work.
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