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Monitoring of students' educational achievements: Experience of Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools in Kazakhstan

One of the key strategic tasks of the “,Autonomous Educational Organisation Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools”, (hereinafter referred to as NIS) states “,Developing a transparent system for quality assurance”,. Along with internal classroom assessment, NIS is developing, piloting and implementing a system of External monitoring of students’, educational achievements aimed as a formative assessment tool. Progress towards meeting the individual student’,s goals is measured by comparing expected outcomes stated in the curricula and actual rates of learning. Based on these measurements, teaching will be adjusted as needed. Thus, the student’,s progression of achievement is monitored and instructional techniques are adjusted to meet the individual student’,s learning needs. The development has started in 2012 with a student monitoring system for mathematics for secondary education and in the development for languages in secondary education has started in 2013.Some approaches that are new to Kazakhstani context, are used in development of the Monitoring system. The article describes steps undertaken in the development of Monitoring system and experience gained in the development and the piloting of the system in the field of mathematics. Particular attention is paid to the approaches of setting performance standards, development of level descriptors of students', achievements and the different ways of reporting for the stakeholders.

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