The publication titled “Primer on Reading the FLS State Reports” by NCERT serves as a guide to understanding the findings of the Foundational Learning Study (FLS) 2022, particularly focusing on Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) with Reading Comprehension. The report is
The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted schooling for students globally and challenged how policy-makers might respond and recover from this protracted emergency. In collaboration with NEQMAP, the GEM Centre has conducted a rapid review of policy and practice documents for 14
The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated pre-existing challenges that the region of South and South-East Asia have been facing in terms of access and quality of education, and it has negatively impacted the education landscape in an unprecedented manner and scale.
The 2015 Sustainable Development Goal for education (SDG 4) sets out ambitious targets to achieve universal secondary education by 2030. While some significant progress has been made, in 2019, 91 million and 137 million children were still out of lower
To design, implement and monitor effective child well-being policies, policy-makers need data that better capture children’s lives, measure what is important to them and detect emerging problems and vulnerabilities early on. Despite improvements in recent decades, there are still important
Designed as household-based assessments, citizen-led assessments (CLAs) are implemented by local organizations who assess children in their homes, thus reaching the most marginalized children, families, and communities, often in remote areas. CLAs add an essential piece of information for truly
This report presents diagrams of country education structures based on the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED). UNESCO created ISCED in the 1970s, with important revisions in 1997 and 2011, to categorize national education structures by student age, programme duration
This report contains data and insights on learning outcomes in the Philippines for Grade 5 learners that can help strengthen evidence-based reforms for basic education. Findings show that average scores for the Philippines in reading, math and writing are below
Literacy in the 21st century is about constructing and validating knowledge. Digital technologies have enabled the spread of all kinds of information, displacing traditional formats of usually more carefully curated information such as encyclopaedias and newspapers. The massive information flow
This report describes an online course developed to support education systems to build an aligned and sustainable approach to integration of 21st Century Skills (21CS). 21CS are those skills that are considered particularly important to succeed in today’s knowledge-based society
In 2020, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries/economies were locked out of their schools. Students everywhere have been faced with schools that are open one day and closed the next, causing massive disruption to their learning. With the coronavirus (COVID-19)
The National Assessment Guidelines (NAG) for Basic Education in Myanmar have been created to bridge between the policies set out in the National Assessment Policy (NAP) (tier 11) and the details of assessment tools and practices at school level. This
Following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on school closures, this memorandum maps out alternative learning approaches in distance learning adopted by the Ministry of Educations in Africa to ensure educational continuity. Different distance learning models include online digital platforms
ICAN is an open-source, robust and easy-to-use assessment tool, available in 11 languages, that offers international comparability of results aligned to SDG 4.1.1 (a). ICAN was developed through a collaborative effort among PAL Network member organisations in 13 low and middle-income
For teachers to nurture and guide students’ development of 21st century skills (21CS), many pieces of the education puzzle must fall into place. The Optimizing Assessment for All (OAA) project set out to focus on one of these pieces: development
