The Ministry of Education and Higher Education through a number of programmes, initiatives as envisaged in its strategy continuously strives to ensure and maintain quality of education in the country from primary to higher education level.
Under different programmes of the Ministry meant to evaluate and ensure quality education in Qatar’s schools is an annual exercise of conducting educational surveys.
Recently, the Schools Evaluation Department at the Evaluation Sector of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education began the implementation of first phase of the comprehensive educational survey for the academic year 2020-2021. The survey is annually implemented by the department for all the government and private schools and preschools.
The first phase, which will last by the end of February, includes four questionnaires: school questionnaire, preschool questionnaire, school principal’s questionnaire, and the preschools director’s questionnaire, to be filled out by an online link for each school and preschool.
The department has urged school leaders to fill these questionnaires, where it considered as a community mirror that reflects the quality of the advanced education in all the schools in the State of Qatar, via school leaders surveys, getting acquainted with their experiences and opinions on teaching and learning in those schools, and comparing between the government and private education performance indicators.
The results of analysing these questionnaires are considered an important tool to help the Ministry’s specialists in identifying the problems facing schools, and working to find appropriate solutions to it, in addition to identifying the quality of services available in each school in the State of Qatar.
Meanwhile, Assistant Undersecretary for Education Affairs at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Fawzia Al Khater, has asked principals of primary schools to create awareness of international tests among their students. During a meeting with principals of primary schools yesterday, she also asked the principals to give importance to internationals studies and take its results seriously.
The meeting emphasised that the performance of Qatar’s students in the international tests (TIMSS, PIRLS, PISA) is considered a major indicator of the performance of the educational system in the country compared to other countries of the world. In a related development, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education has said that 18 private schools have been selected out of 42 schools to participate in the pilot Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2021 test which will take place in March and April of this year.
