National Achievement Test Reviewers

  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 fo...