National Achievement Assessment and National Pilot Achievement Assessment-2006 held throughout Pakistan from 17-20 April, 2006

Second Large Scale National Assessment-2006 and Pilot Assessment is being conducted by NEAS throughout Pakistan in 808 schools in the subjects of Urdu, Mathematics, social Studies and General Science for Grade 4 students from 17-20 April, 2006 respectively . The test will be administered by 2000 trained Test Administrators.  In addition to Large Scale Assessment, Pilot Assessment for Grade-8 in 113 schools will also be conducted for the refinement of instruments and estimation of logistics and expenditures for the next round of Large Scale Assessment, in the subjects of Urdu and Mathematics on 19-20 April, 2006.  Sample was drawn carefully to represent whole population enrolled in Grade-4 and Grade-8.

The whole activity will be monitored (10%) throughout country by the staff of NEAS, PEACEs, Areas and other renowned educationists and teacher educators.

First National Stakeholder Conference-2006 for dissemination organized by NEAS held at Kohinoor Hall, Marriott Hotel, Islamabad on March 21, 2006

First National Stakeholder conference-2006 was held on March 21, 2006at Marriott Hotel, Islamabad. Lt. Gen. (Retd) Javed Ashraf Qazi (Federal Minister for Education) inaugurated this conference.  Federal Education Secretary Mr. Sajid Hassan, Provincial Education Ministers, Provincial Education Secretaries, renowned educationists, teachers, teacher educators, NGOs, heads of education departments, The World Bank, British Council, DfID, other international educational bodies, parents etc. were invited to attend this conference.

NEAS disseminated results of first large scale testing of grade-4 (2005) to the stakeholders.  The stakeholders shown their interest in the results and said that these results will really give some clear guidelines for policy makers. 

Training of Lead Test Administrators for National Achievement Assessment and National Pilot Achievement Assessment-2006 held at NEAS from 22-27 March, 2006

Lead Test Administrators (LTA) were trained at NEAS from 22-27 March, 2006 at NEAS, Islamabad.  The objectives of this training were to prepare LTAs so that they can train Test Administrators (TAs) through out Pakistan to conduct National Achievement Assessment and National Pilot Achievement Assessment-2006.  At the closing of training, participants showed their satisfaction and informed NEAS that they will be training TAs throughout Pakistan effectively. 

Three days Information Technology Training at PEACEs and AEACEs.

February, March and May-2006

NEAS have arranged a three days IT Training for its attached offices (PEACEs and AEACEs) in all provinces and areas offices.  IT Specialist NEAS, Mr. Shafiq Ur Rahman visited some local offices to train PEACEs and AEACEs for their training as resource person. 

In this training round local offices trained for use of Information Technology in their routine work and to cover communication gaps between NEAS, PEACEs, AEACEs and ATCs.