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Over 4,000 Abu Dhabi students to take part in assessment programme
The three-year global assessment examines the performance of 15-year-old students in key skill areas such as Reading, Mathematics and Science Literacy.
Abu Dhabi - More than 4,000 students from private and public schools across Abu Dhabi will be taking part in the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa), a survey to measure how far graduating students have acquired knowledge and skills.
The three-year global assessment examines the performance of 15-year-old students in key skill areas such as Reading, Mathematics and Science Literacy.
The Pisa survey helps create a better understanding of the level of motivation among students to learn. It also creates a better understanding about students’ attitude towards learning, their beliefs about themselves and their learning strategies.
“As part of the Abu Dhabi Education Council’s (Adec) commitment to provide quality education to all students equally, students from both the public and private school sector will participate in Pisa 2015 which will help generate accurate and updated information on achievement levels thus leading to implementing best practices with particular emphasis on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Stem),” stated Dr Amal Al Qubaisi, director-general, Adec.
The Pisa survey will be conducted across 117 schools in both Arabic and English languages. Approximately 42 students have been randomly selected to take part in the survey from each of those schools.
“Adec is taking part in the Pisa 2015 survey with over 40 different countries across the world, with approximately 4,500 students representing each country. Students are selected from a random sample of public and private schools, with the aim of monitoring progress in meeting key learning objectives,” explained Dr Al Qubaisi.
The survey includes a two hour assessment of students’ knowledge and skills in reading literacy, mathematical literacy, scientific literacy and problem solving, as well as, background questionnaires that explore students’ attitudes to learning and their learning environment.
The results will be released in December 2016 and will be shared in the schools here.
The first Pisa survey will take place in English-speaking schools until April 30 followed by Arabic-speaking schools, Ministry of Education schools and Asian schools, from May 18-25.
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