BEAM hosts national workshop on testing and assessment
BEAM Project recently hosted a national workshop of the DepEd Technical Working Group-Quality Assurance
and Accountability (TWG-QAA) on May 19-20, 2008 at Paradise Island Resort, IGACOS. The two-day workshop was aimed to review the Proposed Student Assessment Policy and action plan prepared by BEAM for possible national adoption by DepEd as part of its Quality Assurance and Accountability Framework (QAAF).
The workshop was headed by the QAAF co-chair and the present chief of the National Educational Testing and Research Center (NETRC), Dr. Nelia V. Benito. Also present were Dr. Mirla Olares of the Bureau of Elementary Education, Roger Masapol and Miriam Coprado, both of the Office of the Planning Service (OPS); Napoleon Imperial of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), Socorro Pilor of the Instructional Materials Council Secretariat (IMCS), and Roderick Cedeño and Danilyn Joy Lontiong of the NETRC.
In the workshop, BEAM was represented by its Inservice Adviser, Deborah Moulton, and the Student Assessment Officers, Anwar Ito and Melanie Estacio. They presented some reflections from the Teacher In-service Workshops conducted & the 2008 BEAM External Evaluation, as well as the rationale and contents of the discussion paper on the Proposed Policy on Student Assessment.
Some existing DepEd Orders were also reviewed during the workshop to ensure that the proposed policy is in accordance to the system and regulations of the Department. Representatives from various sectors actively participated in the discussion and provided inputs from their respective offices. These will be reflected in the revised Proposed National Assessment Policy as a result of the said activity. In culmination, the group identified the elements of the policy and created subgroups that will work on the development and improvement of the components. The group agreed to conduct a follow-up session to review the subgroups’ output and integrate these in the proposed policy. This activity will lead to the issuance of a DepEd order providing for a National Policy on Student Assessment in all levels with an accompanying manual of operations for its eventual implementation in both the public and private schools.
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