also international benchmarks of student performance provided by international student surveys such as pisa and timss have been influential in driving policy development at the system level in addition ncese whose services as of were integrated in iac also conducts surveys to assess societal views of education which include the collection of views and perspectives from principals teachers parents students and potential employers by contrast there is no framework to evaluate the work of rayons and oblasts departments of education even if the monitoring of their work can be followed on the basis of student learning outcomes