Quality education: KP to implement SLO-based assessment system

PESHAWAR: Prominent educationists said that KhyberPakhtunkhwa was the first province to have implemented a student learning outcome (SLO)-based assessment system to improve education quality, officials said on Saturday.

Speaking at the concluding ceremony of five-day training workshop for teachers and students, Prof Dr Qadir Bakhsh Baloch, noted educationist and former education minister of Balochistan, Prof Amir Zeb Khan, Prof Dr Fazal Elahi Awan, Dr Nadeem Sultan and others said that no progress was possible without making education a top priority.

Association for Academic Quality (AFAQ) and the Peshawar Public School and College, which was attended by prominent educationists and a large number of students.

Dr Qadir Baloch said it was joint responsibility of policymakers and all the relevant quarters to work out a comprehensive and pragmatic plan for education emergency towards achieving target goals and objectives.

Prof Amir Zeb Khan, director of teachers’ training, pointed out that KP had already launched a multi-prong project to align curriculum with national education objectives as all KP education boards had started brainstorming sessions to implement SLO-based assessment systems following effective teaching methodologies.

Prof Dr Fazal Elahi Awan, a resource person, said that there were flaws in the education system from curriculum, teaching methodologies, contents, evaluation process to teachers’ training arguing that the entire education system required overhauling through different phases.

Dr Nadeem Sultan regretted that the education system failed miserably to achieve the goal of market-oriented students, because the system is mainly based on assessment of memory only.

Prof Iftikhar Ahmad, Prof Farzana Shaheen, and Prof Mohammad Shafique also shared their experiences with the participants.