Lessons from the Field Developing and Implementing the Qatar Student Assessment System, 2002-2006

• Main Author: Gonzalez, Gabriella C. (auth)
• Other Authors: Le, Vi-Nhuan (auth), Broer, Markus (auth), Mariano, Louis T. (auth), Froemel, J. Enrique (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2009
• Subjects: Educational strategies & policy; Comparative politics; Age groups: children; Sociology; Political Science; Education
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Central to Qatar's education reform was the development of internationally benchmarked curriculum standards and standards-based assessments in four subjects: Arabic, English as a foreign language, mathematics, and science. This report recounts the development of Qatar's standards-based stu...