The Testing Directorate in the Jordan Ministry of Education

The LQAS methodology has a number of objectives in the education sector, including: Holding schools greater accountability; Increasing implementation fidelity and credibility; Identifying schools or regions (field directorates) that needs extra support to assist them; Identifying areas for improvement to conduct reforms contributing to increase the effectiveness of the initiative; Providing an assessment methodology that enables the ministry to assess the students’ outcomes with high credibility and is used at all administrative levels in the ministry; and Providing relevant, reliable, and timely data.