RAMA: Israel's National Authority for Measurement in Education

Israel’s National Authority for Measurement and Evaluation in Education (RAMA) was founded to help the Israeli Education System achieves its outcomes, and to enable Israeli students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and values suitable for meeting future challenges. RAMA is an independent government agency, which reports directly to the Minister of Education and operates within the Ministry of Education. Since its establishment in 2005, RAMA has been collecting, analyzing, and disseminating diverse and validated data according to professional standards in order to support decision-making and large-scale change processes. RAMA is the leading professional authority of the education system in the fields of measurement and evaluation. RAMA acts as a professional, objective, and impartial agency, serving all stakeholders in the education system and beyond, including government officials and administrators, school principals, teachers, parents and students, who seek to build a better future for the State of Israel.