1st Quarter Deped Periodical Test Grades 1-6 All Subjects

The National Assessment System of K to 12 Education Program

National assessment is a country-wide collection of information on what students know, understand, and perform. The result of national assessment can be used by individual students as a basis on where to proceed in the next step in the educational ladder or can be used by educators for making an informed decision about what to do next in the educational process. Before the implementation of the K to 12 education program, students took the National Achievement Test (NAT) which provided information to schools, divisions, regions, and the country as to the level of academic achievement of Filipino students in elementary (taken at Grade 6) and in high school (taken at Year 2) level. In the K to 12, national assessments will be conducted at the end of each level of schooling elementary, junior high school, and senior high school. Moreover, there will be summative assessment at the national level conducted at the end of Grade 3 to determine the impact of the use of mother tongue as medium of instruction. The assessment in Grade 12 is conceived to accomplish several purposes such as to assess the achievement of the K to 12 standards and to serve as college entrance examination.