The Executive Secretary Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has actually concluded plans to carry out a globally accepted nationwide evaluation.

Bobboyi disclosed this at a five-day workshop for the advancement of test items for the 2022 National Assessment of Learning Achievement in Basic Education (NALABE) in Nigeria kept in Kaduna this week.

In a statement signed by David Apeh, the Commission’s Head of Public Relations and Protocol, Bobboyi said UBEC and UNICEF have actually put whatever together for the conduct of a worldwide accepted National evaluation.

According to him, the workshop is aimed at achieving the following goals amongst others i.e to produce the test items in 4 core topics in main 3 and 5, JSS 2, development of assessment framework that will assist to come up with the test blueprint that will guide in test products, objectives and material.

The workshop will likewise produce a development test plan and create test products that will be trial checked for standardization.

Bobboyi, who was represented by the Deputy Executive secretary Prof Bala Zakari, stated given that the inception of UBEC, the commission has actually up until now carried out 5 studies, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2011 and 2017, based upon its mandate as preserved in the UBE act of 2004.

National assessment is a study of schools and discovering to offer evidence about students’ achievement in identified curriculum locations, such as reading/literacy, mathematics/numeracy, science and other skills, for a plainly defined part of the education system.