MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Education (DepEd) will adopt a new assessment tool using the letter system to assess the level of proficiency of students in public schools. With the additional ...

MANILA, Philippines — The proficiency levels of Filipino students are possibly being underestimated if only based on the standards adopted by the Department of Education (DepEd) in its national tests.

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education (DepEd)’s long-standing practice of classifying students as “proficient” only if they score at least 75 percent in national assessments may not ...

Legions of grade-conscious students and parents may be surprised when the first report cards under the new K+12 education program come out. Instead of numerical values, grades will be letters under a ...

With the Philippines’ basic literacy rate pegged at some 93 percent, it comes as a shock to learn from a recent report that the proficiency rate among Filipino learners has declined precipitously as ...

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet (PIA) — The Department of Education-Cordillera Administrative Region (DepEd-CAR) continues to enhance the proficiency level of the key stage 1 learners particularly Kindergarten ...

DepEd-Cordillera director Estela L. Cariño leads other education officials in the monitoring of the implementation of the ARAL program at the Manicbel Primary School in Sal-lapadan, Abra recently.

MANILA, Philippines — Just months after it was introduced by the Department of Education (DepEd), the Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (Aral) program has been shown to significantly improve ...