MINISTER of General Education John Phiri has said Government is developing a national assessment frame work to guide implementation.

CHALI MULENGA, Livingstone
MINISTER of General Education John Phiri has said Government is developing a national assessment frame work to guide implementation.
Dr Phiri said this national assessment frame work help the use of assessment data at all levels in the ministry.
 “Zambia in the last few years, we have been working on reforming our assessment processes and aligning them within our institutional structures,” he said. 
Dr Phiri said this in a speech read on his behalf by Chishimba Nkosha at the second Learning Metrics Task Force (LMTF) learning champions forum in Livingstone, he said three phases of work done by the LMTF are all important.
“The first by determining why learning is important, then followed by understanding how learning outcomes should be measured followed by how the measurement itself can improve the quality of education,” he said.
Dr Phiri noted that when the LMTF begun the country did not have the in place the necessary instruments for measuring learners holistically.
“As a result of LMTF, there are seven domains of learning that have been developed, physical wellbeing, social and emotional, culture and the arts, literacy and communication, learning approaches and cognition, numeracy and mathematics science and technology,” he said.
Dr Phiri said the Zambia education curriculum framework ZECF (2013) provides subjects and learning areas that are able to assess all the domains developed by LMTF.
He added that the country has now put in place necessary polices that recognise the importance of assessment.
“I am pleased to report that our policies do not only recognise the importance of assessment but also emphasise the need for performance feedback systems from the national examinations and national assessment systems,” he said.
Dr Phiri said Zambia already has in place institutions charged with the responsibility of conducting different forms of assessment.
“These institutions include Examination Council of Zambia (ECZ) and Technical Education Vocational and entrepreneurship Training Authority TEVETA,” he said.
Director of standards and curriculum, Cecilia Sakala said the country has been able to form networks and partnership with others countries.
“We appreciate the lessons that we have learnt as a country from LMTF. We hope that we are going to find solutions to the challenges that the country is facing,” she said.
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