Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) was one of the policies defined in Education Commission's Report 2000.

The main purposes of System Assessment:

1. To provide the Government and school management with information on school standards in key learning areas for the purposes of school improvement so that the Government would be able to provide support to those schools in need of assistance.



2. To enable participating teachers to understand the key process involved in making sense of the data and facilitate teachers’ effective use of TSA results to inform learning and teaching.