بدأ العام الدراسي الجديد مطلع هذا الأسبوع ومعه بدأت الحياة تتدفق في شرايين المجتمع، وتسري في عظام المدينة والقرية الأحاديث الصاخبة واللامنتهية عن التشريعات والأنظمة التعليمية الجديدة، وتحديات المعلمين والطلبة، وتصنيف المدارس، والدور المتنامي للأسرة للمشاركة بقرارات صناعة المستقبل للأجيال القادمة.
شيئاً فشيئاً تعود المؤسسة التعليمية الرسمية، وتمارس دورها، وتستعيد زمام المبادرة، بعد أن اكتفت ردحاً من الزمن بردود الأفعال من حين لآخر وعلى استحياء، وبعد أن غرقت المؤسسة التعليمية الرسمية كثيراً في أعمال ومهام ليست في صميم عملها؛ مثل إنشاء وإقامة المدارس والمنشآت التعليمية وشركات نقل الطلاب والطالبات على حساب انشغالها بالعملية التعليمية ومرتكزاتها.
لقد فرضت المؤشرات والاختبارات المعيارية الدورية؛ التي تقوم بها هيئة تقويم التعليم والتدريب، واقعاً جديداً وقواعد جديدة وحسابات مختلفة بدءاً من اختيار الأسرة المدرسة الأفضل والأنسب لأبنائهم وبناتهم استناداً إلى التصنيف الواقعي والمهني للمدارس؛ الذي يعطي المدرسة حقها ومكانتها الطبيعية، وفقاً لما تستحق من مستوى يليق بها بين مختلف المدارس على قاعدة التنافس العادل بين مختلف المدارس ووفقاً لقواعد ومؤشرات التصنيف المبنية على معايير عكستها الحوكمة والاستدامة والجودة إنتاج عديد المؤشرات.
لم تعد الحملات الإعلانية الترويجية والصورة الذهنية التقليدية المسبقة عن بعض المدارس «الراقية» أو أحاديث المجالس عن المدارس الأفضل، قادرة على استمالة الأبوين والأسرة والطلبة والمجتمع لاختيار المدرسة «الأنسب» و«الأفضل» لتمكين جيل أبنائهم وبناتهم من مسارات المستقبل.
لقد نجحت مؤشرات «تقويم التعليم» برفع أسهم مدارس وخفض أخرى على قاعدة تنافسية أكثر عدالة، وصولاً للأكثر جودة والأسعار العادلة. إن التحول من الأهداف الكمية إلى المستهدفات النوعية يعد مؤشراً بذاته على التغيير الصحي المنشود، بالتماهي والتناغم مع مُجمل التغييرات التي يشهدها المجتمع والسوق المحليان في مُجمل قطاعات التنمية، غير أن قدر التعليم أنه دائماً هو القاطرة التي تقود سائر قاطرات التنمية كما يوصف.
لكن التغير الذي طرأ والتحول من المستهدفات الكمية إلى المستهدفات النوعية يجب ألا يقف هنا فقط، فهناك مرحلة ثالثة وهي بالغة الأهمية تتمثل في قياس الأثر. فالمؤشرات رغم أهميتها، إلا أن هناك ما يقتضي قياس الأثر ومقارنة ذلك بالمؤشرات والتأكد من الانسجام التام بين المؤشرات والاستمرار في التشخيص، ومعرفة نقاط القوة ونقاط الضعف بما يضمن ويحقق الأثر المنشود والمستهدف الفعلي. فقياس الأثر يبقى دائماً هدفاً متقدماً في ردم الهوة والثغرات التي قد لا تنجح بعض المؤشرات بتشخيصها ومعالجتها.
عبداللطيف الضويحي
مؤشرات «التقويم» وخارطة التعليم الجديدة
26 أغسطس 2025 - 00:02
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آخر تحديث 26 أغسطس 2025 - 14:40
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The new academic year began at the start of this week, and with it, life started to flow through the veins of society, filling the city and village with loud and endless discussions about new educational legislations and systems, the challenges faced by teachers and students, the classification of schools, and the growing role of families in participating in decisions that shape the future for the coming generations.
Little by little, the official educational institution is returning to its role, regaining the initiative after a period of time during which it was content with sporadic and timid reactions, and after it had become deeply immersed in tasks and responsibilities that are not central to its mission, such as establishing schools and educational facilities and managing student transportation companies, at the expense of focusing on the educational process and its foundations.
The indicators and periodic standardized tests conducted by the Education and Training Evaluation Commission have imposed a new reality, new rules, and different calculations, starting with families choosing the best and most suitable school for their sons and daughters based on the realistic and professional classification of schools, which gives the school its rightful place and status according to the level it deserves among various schools on the basis of fair competition and according to the rules and classification indicators built on standards reflected by governance, sustainability, and quality, producing numerous indicators.
Promotional advertising campaigns and the traditional preconceived mental image of some "elite" schools, or discussions in social gatherings about the best schools, are no longer capable of swaying parents, families, students, and the community to choose the "most suitable" and "best" school to empower their children for future pathways.
The indicators from "Education Evaluation" have succeeded in raising the profile of some schools while lowering others based on a more equitable competitive basis, leading to higher quality and fair prices. The shift from quantitative goals to qualitative targets is itself an indicator of the desired healthy change, aligning and harmonizing with the overall changes witnessed by society and the local market across various development sectors. However, education's fate is that it is always the locomotive that drives all other development engines, as it is often described.
However, the change that has occurred and the shift from quantitative targets to qualitative targets should not stop here; there is a third phase that is extremely important, which is measuring impact. Despite the importance of the indicators, there is a need to measure impact and compare it with the indicators, ensuring complete harmony between them, continuing the diagnosis, and identifying strengths and weaknesses to ensure and achieve the desired and actual targeted impact. Measuring impact remains a forward-looking goal in bridging the gaps and shortcomings that some indicators may fail to diagnose and address.
Little by little, the official educational institution is returning to its role, regaining the initiative after a period of time during which it was content with sporadic and timid reactions, and after it had become deeply immersed in tasks and responsibilities that are not central to its mission, such as establishing schools and educational facilities and managing student transportation companies, at the expense of focusing on the educational process and its foundations.
The indicators and periodic standardized tests conducted by the Education and Training Evaluation Commission have imposed a new reality, new rules, and different calculations, starting with families choosing the best and most suitable school for their sons and daughters based on the realistic and professional classification of schools, which gives the school its rightful place and status according to the level it deserves among various schools on the basis of fair competition and according to the rules and classification indicators built on standards reflected by governance, sustainability, and quality, producing numerous indicators.
Promotional advertising campaigns and the traditional preconceived mental image of some "elite" schools, or discussions in social gatherings about the best schools, are no longer capable of swaying parents, families, students, and the community to choose the "most suitable" and "best" school to empower their children for future pathways.
The indicators from "Education Evaluation" have succeeded in raising the profile of some schools while lowering others based on a more equitable competitive basis, leading to higher quality and fair prices. The shift from quantitative goals to qualitative targets is itself an indicator of the desired healthy change, aligning and harmonizing with the overall changes witnessed by society and the local market across various development sectors. However, education's fate is that it is always the locomotive that drives all other development engines, as it is often described.
However, the change that has occurred and the shift from quantitative targets to qualitative targets should not stop here; there is a third phase that is extremely important, which is measuring impact. Despite the importance of the indicators, there is a need to measure impact and compare it with the indicators, ensuring complete harmony between them, continuing the diagnosis, and identifying strengths and weaknesses to ensure and achieve the desired and actual targeted impact. Measuring impact remains a forward-looking goal in bridging the gaps and shortcomings that some indicators may fail to diagnose and address.


