Assistant Undersecretary for Curricula and Evaluation in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Hamad Al Yahyai, confirmed that the Smart Summer Classes program approved by the Ministry for the academic year 2019-2020 came to emulate educational requirements and developments, as it allows the possibility of improving students ’final grades at a rate of 10% and for all students whether Outstanding students who want to improve their scores and proportions or those who have not been able to meet the minimum success score.
He said that the Ministry of Education, earlier, opened the door for parents and students to apply for grievances, observations and grades, from the fourth to twelfth grade, in order to achieve the principle of enhancing transparency and credibility, stressing the importance of not hesitating all exceptional and special cases for review to raise their observations even It is considered and decided upon, and accordingly, fairness is achieved in the evaluation within the framework of the calculation rules prepared for that.
Parents and students wishing to review called for applying for this through the website announced by the Ministry through its accounts on social networking sites
http://parentsshare.moe.gov.ae/complain/.
He pointed out that the evaluation criteria currently being taken into account the interest of students, which are based on the principle of evaluation for learning, contrary to what was previously followed in the evaluation methodology that falls to judge the level of student performance, pointing out that on July 19 this smart classes will be launched, and will continue until 13 August.
Al-Yahyaihi explained that all the decisions taken by the Ministry in the past academic year 2019-2020 are in the interest of the student, and came in response to the current conditions, and the change in the learning process, through the application of distance learning, noting that the Ministry in this context came out with specific initiatives It would achieve support for the student.
He mentioned that the Smart Classes Program is one of the initiatives that offer the student’s interest and seeks to enable him to target learning outcomes and change the evaluation philosophy that has become more modern and interested in achieving learning outcomes by raising the level of student performance without paying attention to the grades as being the basic and final measure.