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Dr Suleiman Hamdan

Education Advisor

Sharjah Private Education Authority

Dr. Suleiman Hamdan is a global education expert and a school improvement advisor with the Sharjah Private Education Authority (SPEA) in the United Arab Emirates. He works in designing and implementing effective school improvement systems and providing leadership and teacher development, school evaluation, and professional coaching and mentoring. He previously served as Director of Institutional Effectiveness at the American University in Dubai and as an education consultant in Michigan, United States. Dr. Hamdans contributions to global education spans a period of over 30 years in the United States, Middle East, and Asia regions, where he served in various capacities, primarily in accreditation and school improvement. This included leading over 100 school system accreditations across the globe and working with school districts and universities in the United Arab Emirates and the United States. His contributions included improved systems at the K-12 and university levels, where he led strategic planning, program evaluation and institutional and program accreditation.  While serving at the American University in Dubai, he led the planning and implementation of strategic planning that resulted in improved university regional rankings, achievement of student success targets, enhanced utilization of technology, and rigorous outcome assessment implementation. 

SPEAKER SESSIONS

12 November, 2024 | 16:20 to 16:40
Role of Assessment in School Improvement

Assessment plays a pivotal role in the school improvement in ensuring its effectiveness, continuity, and impact. This session is designed to explore the role of assessments and the use of data in the continuous school improvement process, and examines assessment practices, professional collaboration and assessment literacy that contribute to positive changes in schools. The chapter also highlights the impact of effective assessment practices in improving schools through a study of four private schools in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates that made significant improvement in their level of educational quality by adopting effective assessment processes.