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The Ministry of Education of Ecuador trusted in DARA solutions to automate the census evaluation of all examinations of students and teachers in the country. The project has been declared BE "Flagship Project" by the Ministry of Education and has been done quite successfully in 2008 and 2009.

"The Ten-Year Education Plan" approved by referendum on 26 November 2006, contains among others the sixth policy that refers to "Improving the quality and equity of education and implementation of a National System of Assessment and Accountability Social Accounts ". A component of this evaluation system, the creation of which is to monitor the quality of Ecuadorian educational system is the evaluation of student performance.
In this context, the Ministry of Education issued the Decision No. 195 on 30 May 2007, in order to "Formalize application performance testing of academic achievement in educational establishments of the country, prosecutors, fiscomicionales, municipal and Hispanic and bilingual individuals such census every three years since 2008. "

In order to begin implementation of the National Evaluation System through the assessment of student performance, we designed and developed new evidence in the basic areas of knowledge: Language and Communication, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies and Questionnaires Associated Factors as academic achievement, they were piloted on a representative sample, adjusted and validated for the preparation of final proof.
Tests of Language and Communication and Mathematics, along with associated factors questionnaires, census shall be applied to students in fourth, seventh, tenth and third Basic Education baccalaureate in educational institutions of the country, prosecutors, fiscomicionales, municipal and Hispanic and bilingual individuals not involved in this operation the nightspots nor special education.


OBJECTIVES:

Ensure the effective and efficient operation of the school.
Assessing organizational development.
Verify compliance with national education policies.
Set the level of students, teachers, administrators and support staff.
Availability and optimal use of resources.
Measure the degree of participation and satisfaction of the educational community.

Agreement with the Ministry of Education of Ecuador
 

DARA has the technology for conducting the Census of teachers and students from Ecuador: automated reading equipment, software testing, and counseling assessment, training and maintenance. Several million tests are managed autonomously by the Ministry using our solutions.

Since December 2008, the Ministry has 12 teams LectoDara (8 LD-9000 and LD-4 8500). DARA performs maintenance and support "in situ" of them all, and gives the necessary coverage to address any new project.

Together they have read more than 10 million documents approx., Completely autonomous from the Ministry. Currently they have over 10 different model forms designed and printed in Ecuador.

The month of May 2008 concluded the National Census Teacher Evaluation to Ecuador. Our experience and technology have allowed do it in a minimum period of time, with complete objectivity and rigor. A month later still hogging covers Ecuadorian national newspapers.

 

The President awarded the students with better test scores 2009-12-15 00:00:00 Being President of the Republic, Rafael Correa Delgado, together with Minister Raúl Vallejo Corral, the awards ceremony held at 53 students fourth, seventh and tenth years of basic general education, as well as third-year high school youth who obtained the best results in Exhibits BE 2008, nationwide.
Photo Gallery of SER tests
Mark sheets used in SER tests