Education Ministry: Schools with sufficient TKA participants can automatically re-accredit

Jakarta (ANTARA) – The Ministry of Education, Primary and Secondary (Kemendikdasmen) said educational units can perform automatic reaccreditation if they have a sufficient number of participants in the Academic Ability Test (TKA) as a sample for the Education Report. Rahmawati, head of the Education Assessment Centre at Kemendikdasmen, said the administration of the Academic Ability Test at the primary and secondary levels this year is integrated with the National Assessment, so the sample for the National Assessment will no longer be determined by the Central Government but will be the entire TKA participants. ‘So the integration is only for execution so that schools can conduct the national-scale assessment once; students sit the test only once, and the results will be obtained, including both the TKA Result Certificate (SHTKA) and the Education Report,’ she said during a Journalists’ Meeting and Kemendikdasmen Iftar in Tangerang, Banten on Wednesday afternoon. These schools, she added, can carry out automatic reaccreditation if they wish to maintain the same accreditation rating as the previous year; for example, a school with B accreditation can stay B automatically, and a school with A accreditation can stay A automatically if the Education Report sample is adequate; however, a move from B to A cannot be automatic and would require a site visit.’ ’During the event, she reiterated that integrating TKA with the National Assessment will not change the previous system because it only merges the execution mechanism. The integration of the two instruments is only at the technical level, so they still serve different functions. The National Assessment will continue to function as a tool to evaluate the education system with results in the Education Report, while the TKA will function as a measure of each pupil’s learning achievement with results in the SHTKA for every test participant.