how they did with school evaluation

When closing the first year of implementation of Decree 1290, Medellín educational institutions create support plans that allow a positive finish the school year.

The arrival of the decree of assessment 1290 which regulates the assessment of learning and student promotion levels primary and secondary education, proposed this year a great challenge for the institutions and the autonomy to evaluate.  Finishing the school year, this independence caught an alarm in the country for the possibility that many students can lose the year. "We knew it would to be a bit tricky adaptation. And of course, because as new generating a change in the model to assess. However, support plans are the solution to meet the needs of students. "Said Felipe Gil, Secretary of Education of Medellin.

The stall alarm and repeating national school until September, was about 30 percent. In Medellin, the Ministry of Education conducted a survey this month to review the city on him. The questionnaire results showed that there is a risk of loss of 20 percent in elementary and secondary education, especially in mathematics low performance by 56 percent.  

These results, as educational institutions, partnered by 67 percent to lack of interest, study habits of students and family support. 

Strategies to minimize the risk

of losing alarm originates year because "it came from a very lax system of assessment (Decree 230), where most people considered him the education sector that generated a greater responsibility for the students, "said Education Secretary Felipe Gil. As we know many criticisms of this system and to move to the end as proposed by the 1290 decree, the adjustment has an impact because there is a different method of assessment desubica both parents, and students and teachers. To minimize distress and adaptation of different educational institutions, the Ministry of Education proposed the development of support schemes, which allow to create a strategy for each institution to support the process students who are struggling. This strategy will enable students, through various activities, improve their academic performance so they can advance to the next grade. The idea is that between the last week of the school calendar and the first week of January when they start showing their progress activities and grade promotion and does not create problems. "The most important thing at this late stage of the year is to develop complementary, workshops, training activities and strategies that allow students to recover," said the Secretary. For Felipe Gil, another element adaptation that has affected the evaluation system referred to in Decree 1290, deals with most institutions that became the number system. So the issue is not so novel for adults, but for students themselves, so the support is crucial as they understand and embrace this type of evaluation.