Enhance students’ learning through more meaningful educational assessment and practices that achieve educational credibility and reputation through deep partnerships with education and assessment leaders in Iraqi and international universities to design assessment policies and programs, quality assurance, and designing technical qualified solutions to support important educational goals. Support leaders and administrators (personnel) in dealing with ongoing developments in educational assessment, required standards and future challenges that will arise while working to improve their systems and deal with the challenges that always arise when they maintain or develop existing systems.

Equity, Inclusiveness, Coherence and Integration, Balance and Systems Thinking are the main principles in the center.

The main task is to support improvement and development according to the results of the evaluation through the following :

• - Formulation of evaluation systems, policies and procedures for them.
• - Use of techniques in storing, using and developing exam material.
• - Develop exam instructions in line with scientific principles and use the means to keep up to date with global developments.
• - Reliance of data and evidence in strategic plans for education.

• Training on:

  • - Modern methods of assessment for examination and quality committees.
  • - Establishing Vocabulary Banks for colleges and universities.
  • - Using results analysis to be a basis for the development of teaching, learner and curriculum.

The work in the field of Educational Assessment Systems (EAS) ranges from helping universities and colleges design and implement performance assessment systems in subjects to working with them on technical and practical issues associated with large-scale assessments. More specifically, it focuses on technical issues and processes that affect the effectiveness of educational assessment policies and programs to support universities in many ways including:

• - Provide dedicated support to colleges in designing, implementing and improving fair, effective and useful assessment programs that comply with the requirements of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The Center provides a full range of support, including technical analysis, skilled facilities, policy and management support, documentation, communication, and training.
• - Coordinate and work with technical advisory committees to ensure that Deans receive the best possible technical advice to support their assessment programs.
• - Develop and distribute practical standards for assessment programs and their quality that include specific information about what universities and colleges should do to have technically sound programs.
• - Assist colleges in developing balanced and innovative assessment systems to support teaching and learning, as well as provide data that can be used in quality systems.
• - Promote best practices in the field by acting as an information conduit for all the concerned in educational reform through sponsorship and leadership at conferences, initiating studies, and collaborating with other key services provided.
• - Administer and supervise exams centrally as a second auditor or to support a third-party auditor.

• Preparing electronic programs for question banks, analysis programs, implementation of exams, models and templates for quality.
• Introducing the international platforms for evaluation and approved question banks and ways to deal and cooperate with them.
• Identifying and supporting the faithful staff in developing assessment applications on modern methods in Iraqi universities.
• Cooperation with Arab and international expertise and bodies in the field of evaluation.
• Holding workshops, national, Arab and international conferences.

• Assessment System

 

The national center relies on assessment system that compose of the following:

First: Competencies and learning outcomes.

Second: Assessment policy.

Third: Assessment plan.

Fourth: Blueprinting.

Fifth: Test administration.

Sixth: Standard setting .

Seventh: Quality Assurance pre and post exam.

Eighth: Feedback to students, Staff and curriculum designers.

Ninth: Formulating proposals for developing strategic plans.

Tenth: Development and innovation in assessment tools and procedures.