CONFEMEN 2014

BOX 9.1. Areas Assessed in Programme d’Analyse des Systèmes Éducatifs de la CONFEMEN 2014

Grade 2. Language of instruction assessment

Listening comprehension: Assessed using oral messages consisting of isolated words, sentences, and passages.

Familiarization with written language and reading decoding: Assessed using exercises requiring that students recognize characteristics of the written language, grapho-phonological identification, and simple letter and word reading activities. Reading comprehension: Assessed using exercises requiring that students read isolated words and sentences as well as texts and then find, combine, and interpret information. Developing competencies in this area enables students to read autonomously in a variety of day-to-day situations and thereby develop knowledge and participate in society.

Grade 2. Mathematics assessment

Arithmetic: Assessed using exercises requiring pupils to count, quantify, and handle quantities of objects, perform operations, complete series of numbers, and solve problems. Geometry, space, and measurement: Assessed according to recognition of geometric shapes and the concepts of size and orientation in space.

Grade 6. Language-of-instruction assessment

Decoding isolated words and sentences: Assessed according to grapho-phonological recognition of words and ability to decode the meaning of isolated words and sentences. Reading comprehension: Assessed using exercises that require students to read literary and informative texts and other documents; extract, combine, and interpret one or several pieces of information; and make simple inferences.

Grade 6. Mathematics assessment

Arithmetic: Assessed using exercises requiring that students recognize, apply, and solve problems using operations, whole numbers, decimal numbers, fractions, percentages, series of numbers, and data tables. Measurement: Assessed using exercises requiring that students recognize, apply, and solve problems involving the concept of size: length, mass, capacity, surface area, and perimeter. Geometry and space: Assessed according to recognition of the properties of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes, geometric relationships and transformations, and orientation in and visualization of space.

Source: Adapted from PASEC 2015.