Public, private Grade 12 learners to take NAT exam, DepEd to administer
By MARIA CARLA C. MAGBANUA
Ong Yiu Central Elementary School
Central Butuan District II
Pursuant to Department of Education (DepEd) Order No. 55 s. 2016 titled Policy Guidelines on the National Assessment of Student Learning for the K to 12 Basic Education Program, the DepEd will administer the National Achievement Test for grade 12 (NATG12) for School Year (SY 2022-2023) on January 30 and 31, 2023. All currently enrolled grade 12 learners in public and private schools will take the test through a paper-based modality.
The NATG12 is one of the exit assessment under the national assessment framework of the K to 12 Basic Education Program. It is designed to determine if graduating learners are meeting the learning standards in the senior high school (SHS) curriculum.
The result of the NATG12 provides data on the percentage of Grade 12 learners attaining at least the minimum level of proficiency in the Stage 4 SHS core areas over the total number of Grade 12 learners. Each learner will be provided with a Certificate of Rating with the learner’s actual rating per core subject area for SY 2022-2023.
The test shall cover the 21st-century skills and the core SHS learning areas of Languages, Humanities, communication, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, and Philosophy. The test design is progressive in nature wherein test items measure varying levels of skills. The language of the assessment tool shall be English and Filipino while the test item format shall be multiple-choice. ###
