24. Manila, Philippines
Optimizing Assessment for All is developing assessments of 21st century skills for classroom use. In a recent pilot of assessment of collaboration, critical thinking and… Read More »Optimizing Assessment for All: Piloting the assessment of collaboration skills in Cambodia, Mongolia, and Nepal
Many schools and education systems still place significant priority on measuring learning outcomes with scores, grades and marks. But this focus and emphasis often misses… Read More »Assessment for Learning – bringing the attention back to learning
The Analysis of 21st Century Skills Integration Program aims to support a strategy for assessing and teaching these skills in the Philippines. The project will… Read More »Developing a strategic roadmap for integration of 21st century skills in the Philippines
After five years of careful development, the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metric (SEA-PLM) is about to deliver. The data collection for the first assessment round… Read More »New regional learning assessment for Southeast Asia paving the way for action
In the Philippines, the needs, capacities and diverse circumstances of learners with special educational needs (LSENs) are carefully studied and given a special attention. With… Read More »Inclusion of learners with special needs in the national assessment of the Philippines
Attended by more than 50 delegates, the NEQMAP Secretariat at UNESCO Bangkok organized the 6th annual meeting of NEQMAP on 13-14 December 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.… Read More »NEQMAP reinforces its effort to promoting quality and inclusive education
On June 7th 2014, 46-years-old Li Jinsheng walked into the examination room to participate his first Gaokao (National College Entrance Examination), known as the most important… Read More »Ensuring equal opportunities for the disabled in the National College Entrance Examination in China
The Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) turns five – assessing the network’s contributions to national capacity development and SDG4 in the… Read More »Giving countries the support they need: Ensuring educational quality through assessment
The Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) is a new regional assessment developed specifically for the countries represented under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations… Read More »Better and more information on factors influencing learning across Southeast Asia
Assessing students’ views of quality of school life (QSL) could shed light on ways to promote and assure the quality of school education. However, research… Read More »Conceptualization of students’ quality of school life: Findings from an empirical study in Malaysia
Every student has different characteristics. Therefore, the style and pace of learning depend on the context, personal characteristics and home background of the learner. Similarly,… Read More »Exploring factors related to students’ learning achievement in Nepal
The National Education Assessment System (NEAS) of the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training of Pakistan has been conducting national achievement testing (NAT) of students… Read More »What can National Achievement Testing 2017 data tell us? Student performance in grades 4 and 8 in Pakistan
Every three years the media turns its attention to the results from PISA, the Programme for International Student Assessment, which compares the performance of 15-year-old… Read More »PISA 2015 contextual data and the case of the digital divide