{"id":610,"date":"2016-08-15T20:32:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T20:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/monitoring-student-progress-in-mathematics-and-science\/"},"modified":"2016-10-17T14:21:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T14:21:30","slug":"monitoring-student-progress-in-mathematics-and-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/monitoring-student-progress-in-mathematics-and-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Student Progress in Mathematics and Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"carouselwrap\"><div id=\"menu-bahrain\" class=\"carouselmenu\"><a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Introduction<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/the-mathematics-curriculum-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>The Mathematics Curriculum in Primary and Lower Secondary Grades<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/the-science-curriculum-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>The Science Curriculum in Primary and Lower Secondary Grades<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/teachers-teacher-education-and-professional-development\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Teachers, Teacher Education, and Professional Development<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/instruction-for-mathematics-and-science-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Instruction for Mathematics and Science in Primary and Lower Secondary Grades<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/monitoring-student-progress-in-mathematics-and-science\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Monitoring Student Progress in Mathematics and Science<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/special-initiatives-in-mathematics-and-science-education\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Special Initiatives in Mathematics and Science Education<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/use-and-impact-of-timss\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Use and Impact of TIMSS<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/suggested-readings\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Suggested Readings<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/references\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>References<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div><\/div>\t<style>\n\t\t.carouselwrap{\n\t\t\tbackground: #e5eaef;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a{\n\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #00b2cc solid;\n\t\t\tcolor: #000000;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a:hover,\n\t\t.owl-item a:focus,\n\t\t.owl-item a.current-menu-item{\n\t\t\tbackground: #00667f;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #00b2cc solid;\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tcolor: #ffffff;\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t\n<h2>Monitoring Student Progress in Mathematics and Science<\/h2>\n<p>As mandated in Article 4 of the Royal Decree, the Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training monitors the quality of education in Bahrain.<sup>11<\/sup>\u00a0Students in basic education take national examinations administered by the Quality Assurance Authority in four subjects: mathematics, science, Arabic, and English. The examinations are designed to evaluate student learning progress and collect information on students, schools, and school performance. Until recently, the national examinations were administered on a yearly basis. Recently, the Quality Assurance Authority decided to administer the examinations in a three year cycle such that examinations last year were administered to students at the end of Cycle 1 (Grade 3) only; this year they will be administered to students at the end of Cycle 2 (Grade 6) only, and next year they will be administered to students at the end of Cycle 3 (Grade 9) only.<\/p>\n<p>In order to monitor student progress, the Ministry of Education&#8217;s school evaluation system, which is applied in all schools in Bahrain,<sup>12<\/sup> assesses student performance based on the following components in all subjects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Daily classwork, homework, and classroom quizzes; teacher observations of student behavior and attitude toward classmates; project work, which varies across subjects; and subject knowledge (30 percent)<\/li>\n<li>Midterm examination (20 percent)<\/li>\n<li>End-of-term examination (50 percent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2013, a ministerial order was issued to allocate 10 percent of total assessment to an oral mathematics examination (i.e., 20 percent of the end-of-term examination) for Cycle 2 students in order to evaluate the new numeracy strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monitoring Student Progress in Mathematics and Science As mandated in Article 4 of the Royal Decree, the Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training monitors the quality of education in Bahrain.11\u00a0Students in basic education take national examinations administered by the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/bahrain\/monitoring-student-progress-in-mathematics-and-science\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":110,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-610","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6892,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/610\/revisions\/6892"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}