oWhat is PEAS?“ To build assessment capacity at the school, provincial and federal level, to better measure learning outcomes, improve the quality and effectiveness of program interventions.”

Education policies 1992,1998-2010 ESR action plan 2001-2005 Workshop at Lahore in December 1997 TGMs at Islamabad in February 2000 TGM in March 2002

PEACE started functioning in May 2002 under DSD. PEACE declared as constituent of UE in 2002. In July 2005,PEACE project was revised with new name

‘Punjab Education Assessment System’.

PEAS aims to provide fair and valid assessment.

Role of Teacher Role of Parents

PEAS is responsible for NEAS and PEAS project activities in Punjab

PEAS(2008) focuses on the Achievement tests in the subject of o Science ando Social Studies Planned for the students of Grade VIII

Collect and analyze data with reference to factors associated with students’ learning achievement level.

PEAS foccused more on the massess than on individuals.

Sample frame prepared by NEMS and it divided provinces in 4 parts with respect to the gender and location of the school.

222schools

108Urban area

114Rural area

Gender-wise distributionGender-wise

distribution

Male411

Female111

National Achievement testing (NAT) 2007 Grade VIII, the subject of Urdu and Mathematics.

Punjab Education Assessment System conducted

NAT 2007 grade VIII, the subjects of Urdu and Mathematics

Provincial Achievement test (PAT) grade VIII,English.

Workshop on multilevel modeling and data analysis in subjects of English and Social Studies for Grade IV.

PEAS organised its 3rd stake holder conference on 19-20 August 2009.

The item writing and review workshop of science and Social Studies of Grade IV was also planned for year 2008.

Now, within Pakistan,NEAS/PEAS has established a partnership with the Institute of Education and Research (IER), P.U.Lhr.

And With the Federal College of Education (FCE) Islamabad

as its assessment training centres (ATCs)

Data Analysis by PEAS to report the learning achievement level of the students

Representation of Boys and Girls in sample data is ratio 6:4

SubjectsSubjects GirlsGirls BoysBoys

ScienceScience 498498 494494

Social Social StudiesStudies

538538 536536

The scaled mean score of Punjab is higher than the other provinces.

The scaled mean score of students of Punjab in Social Studies is Higher than the rest of the nation.

PEAS 2008 Assessment says:

PUNJAB

OTHER PROVINCES

Score of Students in Punjab

SubjectsSubjects Score in PunjabScore in Punjab

ScienceScience 496496

Social studiesSocial studies 537537

SubjectsSubjects Score of NationScore of Nation

ScienceScience 477477

Social studiesSocial studies 516516

Finally, it would be pertinent to note that the development of National/provincial assessment is a challenging and complex task.

NEAS/PEAS have generated data that can be used in research for high student achievement.

Hence, assessment can help• Teachers improve their classroom practices through assessment

and professional development.• Parents understand and use assessment findings to help their

children reach their potentials.

References

www.peas.gop.pk PEAS school Education Department, Government of the

Punjab “Provincial report on Assessment of students’ Learning 2008.”

Difference Between Education Systems