CAGAYAN de Oro 2nd District Rep. Rufus Rodriguez filed a measure that will convert the National Education Testing and Research Center into the National Education Assessment and Evaluation Authority.

House Bill 7676 seeks to institute appropriate mechanisms to ensure quality education through NEAEA.

The NEAEA is seen to improve the delivery of quality education and strengthen the linkage between the educational system and the country’s vital economic and industrial sectors.

It will coordinate testing efforts, particularly those that have been started by the Department of Education.

Rodriguez said that mechanisms shall be established to monitor educational processes and outcomes through appropriate assessment and evaluation systems.

“The enactment of this bill will rationalize the system for monitoring, testing and evaluation of the outputs of different grade/year levels in the elementary, secondary and tertiary levels,” he said in his explanatory note.