Monitoring Student Progress in Reading
In Chile, the Ministry of Education and the Education Quality Agency are responsible for the continuum and periodic assessment of the educative system to improve the quality of education. The Education Quality Agency also is responsible for the annual assessment of student learning achievement and performance of educational institutions based on indicative standards referring to the national curriculum.
The national assessment system assesses all schools annually in Grades 4 and 10, and every other year in Grades 6 and 8.26 The national assessment measures learning achievement in mathematics, language, science, social sciences, and indicators of personal and social development. Results are published at the school, regional, and national levels as scale scores and achievement levels (guarding individual results of students and teachers), describing what students are able to do at different cut points on the assessment’s scale.
At the school level, students are individually assessed in all subjects by their teachers, and grade promotion depends on their academic results. The promotion certification of high school (upper secondary education) is given by the Ministry of Education based on student qualification informed by the schools.27