The Center for Measurement and Evaluation Discusses Cooperation with the Central Bureau of Statistics

2019-02-18

Mr. Mohammed Assaf, the Director of the Measurement and Evaluation Center at Al-Istiqlal University, held a bilateral meeting with Ms. Amal Jaber, the Director General of Training at the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), in its headquarters in Ramallah last week.

The two parties discussed the role of the Measurement and Evaluation Center at the University in developing the skills of the teaching in the field of measurement and evaluation, in addition to enhancing the educational outputs of the students to achieve the educational quality.

Also, they agreed on implementing a number of activities and courses which is represented by holding Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) course for the members of faculty during the current semester, and to be followed by an advanced SPSS course in the next semester.

Moreover, there will be a scientific symposium for faculty members and students on the statistics, reports, studies and population census prepared by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in how to benefit from and use them in the fields of scientific research, in addition to workshops for the academic departments to present statistics for each department.

This cooperation comes as an activation of the agreement which was signed between the Al- Istiqlal University and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in 2016.