Of Standardized Student Measurements and Tests in the Dominican Republic

Authors

PEDRO J. TAVAREZ-DACOSTA Dr., UASD UniversityFollow
Fransheska Arias Reyes Lic., Ministry of Education-MINERD--Follow

Abstract

The present work seeks to establish a comparison between two different and distant evaluation tools applied to the Dominican student population in order to measure the efficiency of our educational system in the recent years, one of them measured the quality of Dominican education in three areas (the PISA Test), whereas the other tested the quality of the proficiency of the English language (EF English Proficiency Index), both for the pre-college levels. Although one of our cherished ideas was our having analyzed such tests of extreme relevance for us, the EFL Teachers and Professors at many different levels, as the TOEFL Test, but due to a lack of available data, that purpose has been postponed at the moment, and we have to conform to compare the PISA Test and the EF EPI (which have been applied, analyzed and roughly criticized in the Dominican Republic for both the Ministries of Education and for the opposing non-governing sectors, as well. This research is a comparative study resulting out of the analysis of the two above mentioned measurements entities held in this decade and consequently all of the data available are contained in them, plus a questionnaire submitted to three sections of advanced English students at Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. To that effect a questionnaire is defined as “A questionnaire is a research instrument that consists of a set of questions or other types of prompts that aims to collect information from a respondent.” A research questionnaire is typically a mix of close-ended questions and open-ended questions. Open-ended, long-form questions offer the respondent the ability to elaborate on their thoughts. Research questionnaires were developed in 1838 by the Statistical Society of London. (Question Pro, 2021). The results of the questionnaires submitted to those college students are duly analyzed and converted into a useful data for the corresponding conclusions in the final chapters of this work.

Recommended Citation

TAVAREZ-DACOSTA, PEDRO J. Dr. and Arias Reyes, Fransheska Lic. (2025) "Of Standardized Student Measurements and Tests in the Dominican Republic," FDLA Journal: Vol. 9, Article 8.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fdla-journal/vol9/iss1/8