This will help to know about the assessment system at elementary level( PRIMARY AND MIDDLE LEVEL) in Pakistan in the year 2019.

1. Assessment system at
Elementary level in Pakistan
Made By:
Dular Tufail

2. Assessment
 In education, the term refers to the wide variety of methods or tools that
educators use to evaluate, measure, and document the academic readiness,
learning progress, skill acquisition, or educational needs of students.

3. Types of assessment
 Placement Assessment:
 Assess students readiness for specific course before instructions.
 Formative Assessment:
 Assess students learning during instructions.
 Diagnostic assessment:
 To diagnose the problems faced by the student in learning
 Summative Assessment:
 Assess students at the end of instructions.

4. Education levels in Pakistan
 Primary level (1-5)
 Elementary level (6-8)
 Secondary level (9-10)
 Higher secondary level (11-12)
 University level (13-onward)

5. According to page and Thomas (1978)
1. Assessment of ability, achievement or present performance in a subject is called
examination.
2. Instrument of assessment can be long essay or mixed form of assessment may be used
for qualifying for entrance to professional and higher education
Assessment Examination
in some cases

6. examination
Examination system is to judge the achievement of students in different areas such as
personality development, creative thinking, and love for Islamic values examination is the
only tool for measuring these aspects.

7. Purposes of assessment and examination
system
 Accountability for institution and their standings
 For the achievement of objectives
 Examination for certification and placement in grades
 Admission test for next level of studies
 To assess the effectiveness of education system as a whole
 To assess the deficiencies in education system and curriculum

8. elementary school
Elementary school is known as a period of formal education following pre school
but before high school it usually 1-8 and students learn basic skills in area such as
reading, writing and maths.

9. Significance of elementary level
 Primary and elementary education is the most important and cardinal sub-sector
and the very foundation of education edifice.
 It is the bed rock of the entire education pyramid.
 The research studies conducted in developing countries including Pakistan and the
world over indicate that primary and elementary education have the highest rates
of return, both social and private, as compared to other sub-sector of education
i.e. secondary and tertiary etc.
 Furthermore, the first years of primary school generally yield the highest returns,
additional years of education yield comparatively lower rates of return.
 The educational and socio-economic indicators of the developed and developing
countries of the world provide convincing evidences that education in general and
primary education and literacy in particular have deep, direct and determining
positive effects on overall development of the country.

10. At school level there is….
 Internal assessment / examination
 An examination that is set and marks by the teacher in school.
 External assessment /examination
 An external examination that is set by the board.

11. Examination system at primary and
elementary level
Examination commission for
elementary level;
 Punjab and Baluchistan have recently established new organizational
structure for terminal examinations of Grade 5 and Grade 8 (Primary and
middle levels). These are called, Punjab Examination Commission (PEC) and
Baluchistan Examination and Assessment Commission (BEAC).
 Both Commissions have been mandated to conduct examination of public and
private sector schools for Grade V and VIII.
 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has also initiated preparatory work for conducting
centralized examination of primary and middle level by the existing Boards.

12. Examination commission in Pakistan
 Punjab Examination Commission (PEC)
 Sindh Examination Commission (SEC)
 Baluchistan Examination and Assessment Commission (BEAC)
 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has also initiated preparatory work for conducting
centralized examination of primary and middle level by the existing Boards.

13. Examination commission for elementary
level
 Examination commission is an autonomous body set up by Government of
Pakistan to assess and examine student's learning achievements particularly of
grade 5 and 8.

14. PEC establishment
 PEC started function in 2005 and in 2006 conducted 5th grade population
examination for the first time in province.
 Now PEC is a statutory body working under Punjab examination Act 6 of 2010.

15. Elementary examination in SINDH
 The Standardized Achievement Test (SAT) .It is administered to all students in
public schools and selected private schools across the province of Sindh in
grades 5 and 8 in key subjects each year.
 Sukkar IBA is responsible for development of test at elementary level.

16. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
 The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Government has launched an annual
centralized assessment for all students across the province in grades 5 and 8.
 The first high stakes centralized assessment in both grades 5 and 8 will take
place in 2017.

17. Baluchistan
 Baluchistan Examination and Assessment Commission (BEAC)

18. Function of Examination Commission
 Function of Examination commission is an organized and strategic manner
that begins with the registration for exams and end at formulation of district
wise analytical exams reports.

19. Registration
 EC does not register any student. Registration is done by only district
education department.
 Registration is free from cost. All districts register their students by using PEC
registration software.
 Roll Number Slips
 After issuing roll number slips, EC send the data to the presentative district
for future verification.
 Once verified, EC issue the final roll number slips to each district which are
then delivered to school and private candidates.

20. Conducting and scoring
 Administration of the test is the responsibility of the executive district office
(education).
 They allocate examination centers for nearby school or students, select
supervisory staff, monitoring staff, examiners for scoring and head examiners
foe monitoring the scoring process.

21. Preparation of results
 After scoring the papers, districts supply scoring sheets of all the students of
all subjects to EC.
 The result can be checked on EC website as well.
 Later on the results reports are published.
 EC deliver the results reports to districts for distribution to the students.
 The error and complaints against results, name, date of birth settled down
through district education offices.

22. At primary level
Internal assessment/examination
 From 1-4 stander assessment is totally based on internal assessment.
 Both formative and summative assessment is done by the teacher in the
school.
 December test as formative assessment
 Annual examination as summative assessment
External assessment
 Assessment at 5th grade is done through external examination.
 Examination is taken by the board.

23. Examination At elementary level
 Internal assessment/examination
 At Grade 6 and 7 assessment is done through internal examination.
 External assessment/examination
 At grade 8 assessment is done through external examination.
 Examination is taken by the board.

24. Disadvantages of internal examination
 The teacher with in the school may give hint to students
about internal assessment so the learner are not
challenged by internal assessment.
 We cannot assess exactly the effectiveness of curriculum,
students learning and teaching methods.
 Biasness mostly occurs in internal examination.

25. Advantages of external examination
 External assessment helps in developing complement personal from
practicing.
 It justifies the decision either the student should move to the next class or
not.
 It is useful in determining the abilities of a student before developing a plan.
 It is designed to detect and locate faults and problems which often are
overseen by internal assessment.
 The vital advantage of external assessment is that it makes easier to compare
diverse situation and condition and articulate their judgements both the
quality of measure.

26. Disadvantages of external examination
 Stressful condition may leads to students not demonstrating real capacities.
 Double marking, examiners' judgement can be effected by various factors,
e.g. task difficulty, topic interest level, tiredness etc.
 Fairness can only be achieved by treating everyone the same. i.e. setting the
same task at same time.
 Teacher has no opportunity to build their assessment skill, get little or no
feedback on how to improve as teachers.

27. Deficiencies in assessment system in
Pakistan
 Pakistan is one of only 12 courtiers in the world that spend less than two
percent of GDP on education.
 Corruption is one of the major contributing factors for failure of educational
policy.
 Lack of accountability and transparency along with low salaries of staff.
 Quality of education and curriculum Is up to date.
 Faults in Education policies.

28. Some suggestions for making up the
deficiencies in assessment system
 There should be stick rules for accountability
 Corruption should be removed by punishing corrupts.
 We should follow the framework of education and assessment of successful
counties.
 We should take an overview on curriculum after every 3 years for assessing
the effectiveness.
 Govt. has to spent at least 10% of GDP on education system.
 There should be a proper workshop for teachers training to improve teaching
method and assessment methods.

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