BackGround
For more than years now, educational institutions and other agencies have been
engaged in reforms to improve instructional programs and students’ academic
achievement. A need for quality and appropriate assessment that will identify
what students should know or what students should be able to do at a certain
grade level in various subject areas is at the core of these reforms.
The Standards-Based Assessment (SBA) is a modern trend in education that will
address the needs of schools for quality assessment.
An approach far different from traditional assessment, the SBA evaluates
students’ performance based on the required standards for a specific grade
level, rather than comparing a student’s performance with other students.
Moreover, the SBA specifies academic performance standards by defining different
levels of proficiency.
Based on Department of Education’s curriculum and International Standards, the SBA focuses on
accepted Standards for each level from Preschool to High School. The SBA test
measures student achievement and competencies in the core subject areas: English
Language Arts, Mathematics and Science.
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