The delay of students' access to the results of the first semester exams, despite the announcement by the Ministry of Education of its completion and the provision of schools to them a few days ago, caused confusion among students and raised their concerns, especially 12th graders, because they determine their university destinations on the basis of the results of this exam. Semester.
The Ministry's Curriculum and Evaluation Sector directed school principals to take several measures on the results of the first semester exams, in order to effectively assess students' levels.
According to the students, Khalid Othman, Hani Ali, and Aisha Mohammed, the adoption of the letter system in the results may be useful in the years of transport up to the 11th grade. However, in grade 12, , If any, because universities in Arab countries adhere to the system of coordination, which depends on the grades to determine the college to which the student will join, especially the specialization that he wants to study within the college.
Yazid Naim, Hala Emaduddin, and Salah Abdul Hamid (students in public and private schools) complained about the difficulty of obtaining their children's results through the Al-Manhal system, pointing out that other schools had identified students who failed, without declaring the results of the success. From issuing certificates, which makes students anxious, and no one has a specific time to announce the results of their children.
A source at the ministry said that the curriculum and evaluation sector recently distributed a number of procedures to the school principals regarding the results of the first semester: the decision not to apply the return exam to students who did not achieve the basic skills required or postponed for absentee students. Raising the student's performance through programs and development plans, in addition to the distribution of student return notices, even if extracted from the system.
The source added that the results of the performance of the student will appear in letters, not grades, and characterization is linked to the average results of students in a single track, and teachers are building individual treatment plans for students based on the level of performance, which will be available to school administrations, and identify the strengths and weaknesses in schools Performance to take advantage of this in building school performance development plans.
On the electronic short tests, the source said that the curriculum sector in the ministry requested in its circulation that teachers be given the powers in the test system (Swift Assis) to build the optional vocabulary, and builds the teacher short tests within the formative assessment and applied electronically, and enables the teacher to track the performance of students through available reports In the system, in addition to monitoring the student's grades in the accredited monitoring system.
The Ministry adopted the letter system instead of the grades in the final results certificates for the first semester of grade 12, including A +, A, B +, B, C +, C +, D + And (D), and (I), which raised a state of confusion among the students of public school students, as they are not aware of what these characters represent, demanding the Ministry to clarify the implications to accurately assess the levels of their children.
The ministry provided the information system with the results of the first semester exams, last Tuesday, and asked school administrations in an email, to announce the results.
Letters and numbers
One of the directors of public schools in Dubai, who preferred not to be named, said that the results are downloaded through the school program only. The principal of each school downloads the results of the student through this program and prints them to the students. Material, so it is easy for his relatives to know his level.
He said that the analysis of the results carried out by the ministry, and provide each school analysis of the results of its students, and this is not the school, and expected that the ministry will change the way to reveal the results from letters to numbers.