The Public Board Held the Next Working Meeting
11.04.2010
The Minister of Education and Science, Dimitri Shashkini and the Director of the National Curriculum and Assessment Center, Natia Jokhadze introduced the current system of the schoolchildren evaluation to the members of the Public Board. They discussed the opportunities of advancement and development of this system. The transparent and objective system of evaluation is the main task of the Ministry. So, the opinions of the members of the Public Board and their participation in this process are very important. The 10 point system of schoolchildren evaluation envisages different components in the final grades. The school departments define the compulsory components. The other elective components are decided according to the agreement between the teachers and the schoolchildren.

The new rules of the textbook approval were also introduced to the members of the Public Board at the meeting. As it is known, the Ministry has defined the new approval rules of the textbooks in general education. The National Curriculum and Assessment Center developed the new procedures and approaches of the approval of textbooks in order to eliminate the blemishes in this process. As a result, the schools and the schoolchildren will be supported with the books of high quality.

The procedures of the competitions, the new criteria of textbook evaluation and other important issues were highlighted in the presentation of the National Curriculum and Assessment Center.