The Student Evaluation Department of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education held the second meeting with the Administrators of government and private schools for the academic year 2019-2020. It was a preparatory meeting for the final exams of the second semester.
During the meeting, summative assessments — which are tests organised for the third, sixth and ninth grades that evaluate the students' achievement of knowledge and skills in the second semester curriculum only — were discussed.
The subject of high school exam committees was also discussed, with all its details, as well as the National Students Information System (NSIS), and the importance of constantly updating it, so that schools will not have to make many amendments and the system will remain constantly updated.
The Director of the Student Evaluation Department, Khalifa Al Dirham said that they used to hold the meeting with schools’ administrators at the end of every semester, in preparation for the final exams, as the meeting emphasised a number of points related to the exams.
Al Dirham explained that the summative assessments are routine and very similar to the tests that are arranged by the schools, expect that they are arranged by the Ministry, pointing out that the benefit of these assessments is to identify the academic levels of students in the classes.
Al Dirham also affirmed the Ministry’s keenness to achieve successful test results, which comes through good preparation and pre-positioning.
