Rural school of Jarabacoa is leading the school ranking

School Domingo Pérez Ozuna (La Cabirma), located in a countryside of Jarabacoa, La Vega, received the best rating at basic level in the classification of schools (CLACE 2011) presented last night by the Foundation to think and grow.

While at level half first place went to private school Porfirio Morales de Moca, Espaillat, and the National District Marillac, obtained equal position in the category technical professional.

According to the "school rankings", of a total of 5,515 schools public and private analyzed, 4,564 obtained a rating "D" (poor), with a range below the 55 points.

Schools evaluated, only 397 obtained the category, with 85 points records and 254 reached the B, with range of 70 to 84 points; 300 c, from 55 to 69 points, and d were rated to 4,564, below the 55 points.

According to the uprising, the 90.7% (2,377) of u000apublic schools, and the 75.91 (873) of the colleges of initial and basic, D. ranked The methodology used to determine the position dealing with educational centres in the context of national, regional and provincial, was based on the performance of educational establishments based on the number of students who had passed the four subjects in national tests, regardless of skill or presentation notes that reported centres educational.

Also took into account the level of correlation according to Pearson (measuring the linear relationship between two random variables qualitative), qualifications who reported schools as note of presentation and results of national tests in each of the subjects.

Fee
paradoxically, private schools which charge a high rate of enrolment obtained qualifications below the upper range assessed, such u000ais the case of the Carol Morgan School of Santo Domingo, whose baseline was classified in category B, in the position 245 in the national 'ranking', along with the Claret school (196), Don Bosco (202), Quisqueya (206) and Luis Muñoz Rivera (219), which are middle-class schools.

At the basic level, in the National District the educational center of higher rank was Saint George, which ranked five in the top 10. Meanwhile, that the Montessori Center for personalized education ranked eight, the rest is located in provinces

Another fact to be highlighted is that at the level, general modality, 10 educativivos with better rating centres are all private, and six of them are located in the National District, such as downtown Montessori education custom (2), Calasanz (4), Serafin de Asis (5), Mc School (7), Amador (8) and growing grows (10).

Content
the study, conducted by the thinking Foundation and u000aGrowing up, that coordinates the former Minister of education, videoclip walls, assessed 2,377 public in initial and basic, and 1,150 private. At the secondary level, we evaluated 1,107 public and 682 deprived of the general modality; Meanwhile, technical vocational and art were the results of 123 public and 76 private.

The report indicates the position that occupy schools within national, regional and provincial, evaluated its effectiveness based on the performance of students in the evidence national.

First school ranking accounted for the 2010-2011 school year. The second report, CLACE 2012 will cover the academic period 2011-2012 and will incorporate in addition the adjustments arising from the first report, variable investment per pupil for each school, and analysis compared with the performance of students in the evaluations.

Ranking contains information that will enable citizens and institutions of the u000acountry strengthen its criteria to make decisions as dissimilar as the selection of schools, the realization of investments and financial contributions to specify policies.

Objectives
'ranking' seeks to offer to the educational community and to rulers an integrated vision of the situation of the educational institutions of the country to generate greater commitments to them and work plantes sets policy for its improvement.

Also allow to educational institutions look at themselves with others of same gender or nature from the quality of education offered in the performances of students in the evidence national.

Intends to provide insights to managers, teachers, students and community about your educational institution and the place it occupies in the list of the others of the same nature in the country.

For the u000astudy, the technical team of the Foundation to think and grow counted with the collaboration of the Ministry of education. The results may be used in programs of the institution, schools, parents and students.

This first report of CLACE 2011, which was under the technical of Mery Valerio, coordination has been sponsored by the Directorate-General of Multilateral cooperation (DIGECOM), through the ease program of European Union technical cooperation for development.

During the presentation of the ranking, the former Minister of education explained that the purpose that has been designed with the initiative "is build a project that after its validation in the medium term, end definitely institutionalized as a right to truthful information of families, a challenge to students and teachers, and constitutes part of the educational culture of the nation".

"The truth is that we all know that" u000aWe're badly in education, and to accept. "What happens is as reads the maxim: a thing is called the devil and another is to see him play our noses", said walls.

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A priority for the education Dominican
the initiative presented by the Foundation to think and grow, that coordinates the former Minister of education, videoclip walls, focuses on tackling one of the priorities of Dominican education who tends the pursuit of excellence of the education service, which determines largely, children, girls and young people learn.

"Our contribution consists of establishing an annual school ranking where you can identify schools of better performance from the objective results of assessments provided by the national tests, and deepen the factors subsequently associated with these results."

"This contribution will serve as a basis to promote positive competition in the" u000a"performance of educational establishments in general and teachers in particular," as well as a reference point for families and for all sectors of society, indicates walls in the presentation of the report.
Adds that the educational system lacks the information necessary to move in the direction of overcoming deficits. Ranking can be consulted la prensadiario.com.

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