The Ministry of Education announced plans on strategies for advancement of education management with the introduction of the Achievement Standards-based Assessment (ASA) to meet the demands for the improvement of evaluation methods and the reduction of academic pressure to strengthen
This paper will summarize emerging findings and conclusions from an ongoing longitudinal study of primary school children. The original study tracked about 30,000 Grade 2 and Grade 4 students over a period of 18 months (2009-2011). It assessed gains in
As more and more countries—both developed and developing—have become interested in collecting information on student learning, there has been a concomitant growth in the demand for strong student assessment systems. The World Bank is at the forefront of efforts to
New Zealand is a relatively high performing country according to international assessments. It has transited the journey to develop a strong student assessment system. This paper, published under the World Bank’s SABER initiative, describes this journey, highlighting drivers that helped
This study presents the first pilot application of SABER in 14 economies in East Asia- a region where improving the quality of education remains the key challenge. It outlines the SABER framework for eight education policy domains, affording cross-country comparisons
Low student learning is a common finding in much of the developing world. This paper uses a relatively unique dataset of five semiannual rounds of standardized test data to characterize and explain the short-term changes in student learning. The data
A need was raised to design a new evaluation framework as the National Assessment of Educational Achievement (NAEA) expands to include all students in order to provide information helpful to increase the academic abilities of individual students. There should be
In this paper we present new evidence on the impact of school characteristics on secondary student achievement using a rich dataset from rural Bangladesh. We deal with a potentially important selectivity issue in the South Asian context: the non-random sorting
East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, this study estimates how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family background is
