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 on QSL is considered scarce, particularly in the Malaysian school context. In addition, it is
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, the student’s learning is influenced by the curriculum as well as teacher- and school-related factors.
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 completing grades 4 and 8 since 2005, with a regular NEAS budget. The latest round
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 students around the world in reading, mathematics and science. Data are collected through carefully designed
Why capture socioeconomic status? Socioeconomic status (SES) is an important element in understanding the data from educational large-scale assessments – be they international, regional or national in scope. The importance of SES stems from its substantive effects on student performance,
As the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) celebrates its fifth anniversary, its efforts to improve the quality of learning assessments are reaching more education stakeholders in Asia-Pacific than ever before. NEQMAP, established five years ago on
Education systems around the world are making the shift from paper to computer-based testing, which can offer an effective and efficient means of conducting assessments. But what are some of the challenges countries are facing when making this transition and
2017 was another year of growth and expansion for the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia Pacific (NEQMAP), for which UNESCO Bangkok serves as the Secretariat. The NEQMAP ‘family’, which had 18 members in early 2014, has now
The Catalogue of Learning Assessments (CLA) is the UNESCO Institute for Statistics’ (UIS) initiative to compile standardized information on various aspects of learning (or skill) assessments in countries across the world. The UIS implemented the first version of CLA in 2014 and
