Damascus-SANA
Developing the final exam for the pilot course of the category “B” curriculum related to compensating educational losses and presenting the work plan of the Central Measurement and Curriculum Development Center on this was the main focus of the workshop launched by the Ministry of Education in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund “UNICEF” in the Ministry’s building today.
The two-day workshop aims to complete the work on developing the unified final exam questions for all subjects and levels, in addition to presenting the work mechanism that was followed to develop and review the unified final exams, approve their forms, and determine the steps for their implementation.
The workshop participants will discuss the specifications of the final exams, the evaluation strategy and the work mechanism that was followed to develop the unified final exams and work with all the concerned directorates to adopt an implementation plan and determine the executive procedures at the level of each directorate.
During the workshop, Minister of Education Dr. Darem Tabbaa confirmed that all facilities are provided for Syrian students who have dropped out of school to return to school according to the “B” category curriculum in the compulsory basic education stage, pointing out that the Ministry is seeking to expand further to include the rest of the educational stages through automated tests.
Minister Tabbaa pointed out to studying the possibility of opening a free virtual school for the category “B” curriculum to secure all the programs of this curriculum through which to register these dropout students so that they can continue their education and take automated tests for them that can be done automatically by default.
In turn, the Director of Planning and International Cooperation at the Ministry, Ghassan Shoghari, pointed out the importance of the workshop to assess the experience of the “B” curriculum and to develop standards and indicators related to it, explaining that the workshop will produce a final standardized exam form for this curriculum.
The Director of the Center for Educational Measurement and Evaluation, Dr. Ramadan Darwish, pointed out that, in cooperation with the Center for the Development of Educational Curricula, a special curriculum for category “B” has been prepared, noting that the workshop will contribute to the preparation of tests for this curriculum so that it can be approved according to levels starting next September.
The workshop was attended by Dr. Claudine Rizkallah Aziz, the international expert in curriculum development at UNICEF.
It is noteworthy that the category “B” curriculum targets students who have dropped out of school for two years or more, who are over the age of eight and who have returned to school, where they are compensated within a developed curriculum that reduces every two academic years to one year with a focus on basic subjects and began to be applied at the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year.
Rehab Ali
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