Serious determination of education to strengthen national final exams

According to the education reporter of Fars news agency, the meeting to explain the titles of the final exams of the theoretical high school was hosted by the Educational Research and Planning Organization and was organized by the high school textbook authoring office with the presence of the deputy minister and the head of the educational research and planning organization, the secretary of the Supreme Council of Education. and Education, the deputy of secondary education of the Minister of Education, the head and deputies of the center for evaluation and quality assurance of the education system, the managers of the secondary education office, the planning and authoring office of secondary school textbooks, a number of managers of secondary schools in Tehran , heads and experts in the fields of education and learning of the office of planning and authoring textbooks was held in Dar al-Funun historical school.

Hojjat-ul-Islam Wal-Muslimin Ali Latifi, Deputy Minister and Head of the Educational Research and Planning Organization, while expressing his satisfaction with the good cooperation formed in the Ministry and the interaction of the departments related to the final exams, said: We hope that in these meetings, we will find solutions to strengthen the standards of conducting nationwide exams. To be able to reduce the psychological pressure of entrance exams on students and their parents.

He added: The decision to modify the selection pattern in entrance exam was made by the Supreme Council of Education and the major part of it is allocated to the academic record so that students can make decisions for their future using the grades during their studies.

Hojjatul-Islam Wal-Muslimin Latifi, pointing out that the solution to weakening the entrance exam is through the final exams, said: 3 subjects should be considered in order to achieve national standard exams with the least possibility of errors and problems in the 10th, 11th and 12th grades.

He continued: The first issue is that the curriculum as the most important influencing factor should be changed and this change should be based on standard criteria.

The head of the Educational Research and Planning Organization stated that in the second step, it should be possible to implement the tests and its necessary infrastructure, and said: the student as a participant in these tests should be fully justified and receive the necessary training.

In this meeting, while emphasizing the necessity of consensus between the four effective departments in holding national exams, it was decided that the organization of research and educational planning along with the deputy of secondary education, the center for evaluation and quality assurance of the education system as the most important department and the Supreme Council of Education By expanding interactions and holding meetings, put the solutions for the implementation of this important transformational program on the agenda based on creating consensus about the conscious choice based on the above three components.

The main concern of those present in the meeting was to examine the harms caused by entrance exams in recent years, and it was emphasized that care should be taken today to create healthy competition in entrance examinations, and we, as the guardians of education, are obliged to prevent unhealthy competition that has existed in the past years. had come.

Based on the components that were mentioned, these meetings should be continued to reach a solid and comprehensive solution with the opinion of all the groups related to national exams in the Ministry of Education.
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