For several decades, modernization and meritocracy in public life have been and still are the key issues in our country. As well as objective and reliable evaluation procedures that are required for this purpose. After much searching, a new system of evaluation in the Civil Service has been adopted in recent years, aiming at greater meritocracy and improvements in the service.
Evaluation in the Civil Service, as of course in education, in addition to the objective of meritocracy, can make a substantial contribution to improving the efficiency and quality of the services provided. It also satisfies the need for accountability to society.
In education, after decades of search and effort, a system of merit-based selection of teachers has been introduced in recent years. With its gradual implementation, in addition to meritocracy, it undoubtedly contributes to the improvement of the educational services offered to society. This is also attributed to the faith of the government which is being completed these days.
Its indispensable complement, however, is a modern and functional plan for the evaluation of teachers and educational work. After years, the relevant legislative proposals have recently been completed, whose forwarding to the House of Representatives for approval is at the discretion of the new government.
A third integral aspect of the whole project is the evaluation of pupils. The new Pupil Evaluation Plan, which has been implemented piecemeal for the past three years in accordance with its approval by the legislature, is currently being challenged by political forces and other groups. It is being challenged before it has even been completed, comprehensively evaluated and possibly adjusted. In fact, one particular political force has been opposing it from the outset and before it has even been implemented. A proposal that had been prepared by the Ministry to limit assessment procedures in high school (two subjects) and written exercises (tests) to "oral assessment" can always be approved by Parliament if the political will exists.
On a principled level and within a modernising direction, but also in the well-meaning interests of both young people and society in general, along with the evaluation of the educational work (of schools) and teachers - for whom merit selection is already applied - there should also be a reliable evaluation of pupils in schools. For this reason, together with any criticism, some practicable and workable proposals are expected, at least now, to ensure the objective of reliable and workable evaluation of pupils as well.
As can be seen from the data gathered from the evaluations and from obvious conclusions, there are very important issues of substance with regard to the organisation of studies and the orientation of pupils, which do not depend on the evaluation process. But it must exist if there is to be knowledge of learning outcomes. As, for example, there is a significant proportion of pupils who, from the outset, from the first year of secondary school, perform in a way that shows that overall it is impossible to follow programmes with any learning benefit (1-5/20) and for whom there is an obligation to design an appropriately adapted programme so that they do not simply suffer in school.
The question arises of certain decisions to be taken and improvement measures to be taken that cannot be overshadowed or even concealed by the Relevant findings will be made public by the Ministry in the coming days as part of a full interim report that has been prepared and will also be made available to the new administration.
Overall, the modernising direction with processes of reliable evaluation and meritocracy in the public sector - through which philosophical approaches or even ideological tendencies can be seen - is a central direction of government policy, against which the next administration will be judged.
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