The National Achievement Test for Grade 12 (NATG12) for School Year (SY) 2022-2023 will be administered this month, the Department of Education (DepEd) announced.
Undersecretary and Chief of Staff Epimaco Densing III, in DepEd Memorandum 001 series of 2023 issued Jan. 5, announced the administration of the NAT for Grade 12 for this SY on Jan. 30 and 31, 2023.
The administration of NAT G12, Densing said, is under DepEd Order (DO) No. 55 s. 2016 titled Policy Guidelines on the National Assessment of Student Learning for the K to 12 Basic Education Program.
“All currently enrolled Grade 12 learners in public and private schools will take the test through a paper-based modality,” DepEd explained.
In reference to DO 029, s. 2022 titled Adoption of the Basic Education Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, DepEd said it has to “identify and articulate indicators and targets for measuring performance in the development of plans and policies.”
These indicators, DepEd added, will be used for the “assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency” of the delivery of education services.
“The results of system assessments will serve as evidence and proxy indicator for the improvement of the curriculum implementation, evidence-based decision-making, and results-based Monitoring and Evaluation,” DepEd added.
DepEd explained that the NATG12 is one of the “exit assessments” under the national assessment framework of the K to 12 Basic Education Program.
“It is designed to determine if graduating learners are meeting the learning standards in the senior high school (SHS) curriculum,” DepEd said.
Moreover, DepEd said that the result of the NATG 12 will provide data on the percentage of Grade 12 learners attaining at least the minimum level of proficiency in the Stage 4 SHS core areas over the total number of Grade 12 learners.
“Each learner will be provided with a Certificate of Rating (COR) with the learner's actual rating per core subject area for SY 2022-2023,” the agency added.
DepEd said that the test shall cover 21st-century skills and the core SHS learning areas of Languages, Humanities, Communication, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, and Philosophy. “The test design is progressive in nature wherein test items measure varying levels of skills,” DepEd said. “The language of the assessment tool shall be English and Filipino while the test item format shall be multiple-choice,” it added.
DepEd explained that the Bureau of Education Assessment (BEA) will manage the national implementation of the NATG12 with the assistance of the regional offices (ROs) and schools division offices (SDOs).
BEA will also coordinate with the identified field-testing personnel for the conduct of a national conference and the administration of the NATG12, DepEd said.
DepEd noted that the guidelines on the test administration --- including the roles and responsibilities of the field-testing personnel and the downloading of the Program Support Funds (PSF) to SDOs --- will be discussed in an online national orientation on Jan. 6.