National Education Assessment System

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The National Education Assessment System for Pakistan aims to design and administer assessment mechanisms to establish administrative infrastructure and capacity for assessment administration, analysis and report writing, and to increase stakeholder knowledge and acceptance of assessment. There are three components to the project: 1) Capacity building would be the main component, where the execution of an assessment is unusually technical in nature. Any one of a number of small mistakes can cause serious delays in implementation and, in the worst case, lead to meaningless findings. Therefore, a high-level technical assistance, including the services o f a senior Technical Advisor, would be required to monitor and assist in all aspects of both central and provincial operations. 2) Pilot experiments will be required to determine what will produce the desired, valid results, and what process is most implemented. 3) Information dissemination. Through this component, the project will facilitate information dissemination about assessment to stakeholders in advance of the actual assessment to explain its purpose and to provide insight and reassurance about its intended uses.