Urgent: Disclosure of the decision of the Ministry of Education in Sana’a regarding standardization of classroom exams
Yemeni news – follow-up
The Ministry of Education in the Sana’a government clarified, regarding what was published in the media and circulated in educational circles, about the inclusion of the sixth-seventh-eighth grades in the list of ministerial exams.
The Director of the Education Office in the Capital Municipality, Abdul Qadir Al-Mahdi, confirmed that what the ministry seeks is to standardize the tests for the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, and the goal is to “measure the real educational level of students in these grades through the application of educational and educational standards in a manner that ensures students’ assimilation of information and skills included in the curricula.”
Regarding the mechanism of standardization of tests, he indicated that Amana schools will standardize the tests resulting from an educational decision taken based on “the technical reports of the educational guidance teams that found abnormal differences in the assessment process and recommended unifying assessment criteria for these classes by a neutral party.”
And he indicated that the exams will be “articles, not automated, and serve the educational movement pursued by the Ministry of Education to develop the educational process, and the ministry and education offices will bear its costs.”