The Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (LANA) which begins tomorrow (July 9) for schools nationwide would be able to identify areas of need for students to help teachers develop alternatives for improvement.
Minister for Education Mr Filipe Bole said this year, LANA has been administered in 727 centres involving 48,641 students.
LANA assesses the Literacy and Numeracy skills of children in classes four, six and eight. Students would be sitting for Literacy tomorrow and Numeracy on Wednesday.
Mr Bole said this formative assessment has a strong school based focus and is not an external examination to categorise students into pass or failures.
He added the diagnostic assessment feeds teachers with information on what students can or cannot do in literacy and numeracy. Teachers capitalize on this information to identify alternatives for improvement.
“This assessment brings to light the areas of student need and teachers are to ensure that they identify means of meeting it. A student should receive the best form of education and teachers are to capitalize on this assessment to maximize the students potential,” Mr Bole said.
Teachers mark LANA papers at their individual schools or cluster schools and get to collect immediate feedback on their student’s performance.
The marked scripts are then sent to the Examinations and Assessment Unit where student’s responses are used to generate the individual students report, school report and the national average.
“I wish to convey my best wishes to all the students sitting for their LANA from tomorrow and hope that they will put up a brilliant performance in their respective schools,” Mr Bole added.
The assessment will finish on Wednesday July 10.
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