Student Assessment Office

The Student Assessment Office is responsible for designing and implementing the Qatar Comprehensive Educational Assessment (QCEA), a program that measures student learning. This program administers standardized tests to students in the independent schools in Qatar. Testing is done annually, with the first tests occurring in April and May 2004 to establish a baseline from which to compare all future test results. A pilot of this baseline test was conducted in October 2003 in a representative sample of Qatari schools.

As future tests are administered, the students' collective test scores together with a wide range of other information about schools and their performance will be made available in the form of a school report card published by the School Evaluation Office of the Evaluation Institute. These report cards are posted on this website for easy access by school personnel, parents, students and other interested parties. Parents will be able to use the information on the report card to help identify the best schools for their children. Test results for individual students will not be released publicly.