(MENAFN - The Peninsula) By Mohammed Osman / The Peninsula

Doha: The Department of Schools Evaluation at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education announced yesterday that it is going to start implementing the second phase of the comprehensive educational survey from March 4, 2018.
The comprehensive survey will include parents, students and teachers. The survey is going to cover a total of 147 government schools, 148 private schools and a total of 196 KGs out of which 94 are private KGs according to Omar Al-Naama, the Director of the Schools Evaluation Department of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education.
Addressing a news conference yesterday, Al-Naama said that the evaluation questionnaire is aimed at surveying the views of the different stakeholders in the educational process including parents, students and teachers on an annual basis. The ministry is keen to know the level of satisfaction of the stakeholders in the educational process and get feedback to assess the quality of services being provided, he added.
He said that the results of survey are used to improve the services provided to them and they are used in issuing different educational reports that give a clear picture of the reality of education in schools, which helps to improve the educational output.
The press conference was attended by Omani educational delegation headed by Dr. Mohammed bin Ali Al Alawi, Deputy Director of School Performance Evaluation Center in Oman and Hamad Ali, Head of the media section of the Ministry of Education.
Throughout 13 years the ministry conducted different types of evaluation surveys, Al-Naama stressed, noting that the questionnaires will be available online for one month for students of public and private schools from grades 4 to 12 while KGs questionnaire will be answered by parents on paper.
The parents' survey which is conducted every year in all public and private schools and kindergartens, which is a questionnaire paper distributed to school students to be delivered to their parents, to be filled in and returned by their children in a closed envelope to the school on the following day. The evaluation survey covers 35 percent of the students in each school, and it will also be implemented on all public and private kindergarten students not affiliated with the school.
The survey will also be carried out electronically by 35 percent of the teachers of each public and private school, as well as by all teachers in the target kindergartens.

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