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OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Serbia

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How can assessment and evaluation policies work together more effectively to improve student outcomes in primary and secondary schools? The country reports in this series analyse major issues facing evaluation and assessment policy to identify improvements that can be made to enhance the quality, equity and efficiency of school education. Serbia’s education system performs well compared to other countries in the Western Balkans. In recent years, there have been improvements in access to education and Serbia has undertaken major institutional reforms to improve teaching and learning. However, a large share of students in Serbia continue to leave school without mastering basic competencies and efforts to achieve educational excellence continue to be jeopardised by limited institutional capacity and low levels of public spending on education. This review, developed in co-operation with UNICEF, provides Serbia with recommendations to help strengthen its evaluation and assessment system to focus on support for student learning. It will be of interest to Serbia, as well as other countries looking to make more effective use of their evaluation and assessment system to improve quality and equity, and result in better outcomes for all students.

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Building stronger foundations to evaluate national education performance

Serbia has established some of the basic components of system evaluation. However, the lack of a national assessment of student learning and a fully functioning education management information system (EMIS) system leaves Serbia without an adequate evidence base to guide and monitor policy reforms, making it difficult to understand the main issues stalling educational improvement. This chapter recommends that Serbia focus its new post-2020 education strategy on key national priorities that can improve teaching and learning. In particular, the country should carefully design and implement the new national assessment and encourage policymakers to access and interpret administrative and assessment data when developing education policies. This can help Serbia address systemic issues and lead to a better understanding of where and why students are falling behind in their learning, despite high levels of school participation.

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