The NCERT has partnered with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) which conducts TOEFL and GRE tests, for setting up India’s first national assessment regulator – PARAKH. The National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT) notified “PARAKH” last month.

Designing open-book, online assessments for subjects relying on calculation poses a challenge to educators. Amit Navin Jinabhai presents a model he has successfully applied to minimise student collusion

Recent PILNA study reveals that teachers in the Pacific Islands are experiencing challenges to their mental health and wellbeing.

A new topical case study illustrates how citizen-led assessments have been used in four countries in South Asia to monitor and improve learning.

The Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP), established in March 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand, is a platform for exchange of knowledge, experience and expertise on the monitoring of educational quality in countries and jurisdictions of the Asia-Pacific region.

The Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP), established in March 2013 in Bangkok, Thailand, is a platform for exchange of knowledge, experience and expertise on the monitoring of educational quality in countries and jurisdictions of the Asia-Pacific region.

73% of teachers say that blended learning increases engagement. 60% of them say that this learning approach increases academic ability. There are many more statistics that illustrate how productive blended learning is. But what makes it so effective? Read more…

The first KIX Education Policy and Innovation Conference aims to create a forum for intensifying dialogue between researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from Caucasus, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and beyond. The conference will provide a venue for bridging the seemingly perennial gap between…

Classroom social and emotional learning (SEL) practices can help students learn to problem-solve, manage their emotions, and build relationships. Integrating SEL practices into school culture helps to ensure that students gain these critical life skills.

Transferable skills – sometimes also called life skills, 21st Century skills or socioemotional skills – are essential to all of us and act as “the glue of all skills”, including foundational skills, digital skills, job-specific skills, and entrepreneurial skills, enabling us to learn, work, particip…

An overhaul of the examination system in Nepal focuses on standardisation of exams and assessing higher order thinking skills at the end of basic education. Nepal has undergone a long and complex transition towards establishing federalism in recent years. The new structure of governance offers opportunities and challenges for the education sector.

UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank have joined forces to close the learning data gaps that still exist and that preclude many countries to monitor of the quality of their education systems and assess if their students are learning. The three organizations have agreed to a Learning Data Compact, a commitment to ensure that all countries, especially low-income countries, have at least one quality measure of learning by 2025, supporting coordinated efforts to strengthen national assessment systems.

In today’s knowledge-based society, 21st century skills are considered important for success. As such, the integration of these skills into education systems has become a key interest area for policymakers around the world.

Fluency is often discussed by elementary teachers simply as the rate of words read aloud per minute, although the full definition includes reading accuracy plus voice tone and inflection. It’s an important measure of student reading success, and as students move through grades, poor fluency becomes increasingly serious.

The issue is how we implement alternative assessment in a remote rural setting where learners or teachers face the problem of inaccessibility as compared to the affluent urban settings.

A generation of young people is at risk of being channelled into low-skilled and low-paying jobs, with disrupted learning through the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating socio-economic fault lines in Australia’s education system.

Learners of the Basic Education Equivalency Programme (BEEP) sit final exams despite the challenges due to Covid-19 pandemic. On 5 March and 5 June 2021, two online final examinations were organized successfully for 108 learners, 37 of whom are females, from Siem Reap, Banteay Meanchey, Koh Kong, Ba…

Few groups have been less vulnerable to the coronavirus than school children, but few groups have been more affected by the policy responses to contain this virus. The crisis has exposed the many inadequacies and inequities in our school systems…

According to the UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning, for data to be used effectively, they must be actionable, available to all who are in a position to act and presented in an appropriate form for each group of stakeholders. Unfortunately, in some contexts, education data are…

The coronavirus pandemic has seriously upended the education system. Along with the shift from classrooms to computer screens almost all aspects of learning are being tested. Format of instruction, attendance, evaluation, the role of technology, and human interaction are all being re-imagined and there is a growing possibility that some of these changes will last.

Shifting to a leaner-centered design frame of mind is becoming more crucial in order to adapt to learners changing educational needs. Here are ways to ensure you are putting the learner first.

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on school leaving, university entrance and other high stakes exams around the world. Many northern hemisphere countries have exams around this time of year and have had to decide what action they will take. Major decisions have been taken to continue as p…

Assessing outside of the “classroom box” while schools are closed: The potential of phone-based formative assessments to support learning continuity

Online learning is a significant investment for those willing to advance their careers, upgrade their skill set, or change careers while pursuing a full-time degree program or doing a job. Engaging the learners, eliminating monotonousness, and motivating them for continuous learning is the key priority of an e-learning program.

SEA-PLM supports countries in Southeast Asia to report progress towards United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, quality education for all.

PAL Network invites abstract submissions of full-length papers that address the theme of building better to ensure learning continuity for all children in the Global South. And, more details on the conference in November 2021…

русский I العربية Learning Cycles are professional development opportunities offered to national education experts from the 21 KIX EAP countries, who analyse, contextualise, and produce new knowledge on policy analysis and innovation exchange. The learning cycles are also an opportunity to make nati…

INEE, IRC, and NYU Global TIES are pleased to invite you to this webinar on new measures coming soon to the INEE Measurement Library. During this webinar, presenters will share evidence on three measures that have been developed or adapted for their specific contexts: Response to Stress Questionna…

Education News: For students appearing in the boards from 2022, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has said there will be 30% competency based questionswhile the weightage for short and long answer has been redu ..

A large body of research affirms that exposure to enabling environments in the early years of a child’s life is critical. This period, globally defined as 0-8 years, is a foundation on which lifelong learning, both in school and life is built.

Repeating school could amplify social disparities. There are better ways to invest resources to help students struggling in the COVID crisis.

More than 600 million children in school are not learning the basic skills, knowledge, and values they need. Asia and the Pacific has the highest number of children and young people affected by low learning outcomes. Develop e-learning resources, curricula that include ‘soft skills,’ and education infrastructure to improve learning in Asia and the Pacific.

Exposing students to discrepant events and online simulations can spark wonder and motivate them to investigate science beyond the classroom.

For years, schools have analyzed achievement, discipline data, and demographics to develop equity plans to raise engagement and achievement.

Ministers from the E-9 high population countries expressed political commitment to scale up digital learning and skills and close the digital divide in order to accelerate progress towards the global goal on education (SDG4), in a virtual consultation held on 6 April 2021.

As schools start to reopen their gates, digital learning will remain part of the teaching and learning experience in multiple ways. COVID-19 has given a boost to edtech and digital learning, and I believe this will last well beyond the pandemic….

COVID-19 has left over 1.5 billion students out of school. In response, governments worldwide have for the first time implemented various edtech solutions at scale in an attempt to maintain educational progress and learning.

For most students, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a tragedy of multiple dimensions. With schools closed, many children lost access to a relatively safe environment at a time when the deteriorated economic conditions at home led to increased stress as well as domestic violence. Meanwhile, 350 million of the poorest children in the world lost their main meal when schools closed.

The mechanism would be implemented in about 25,000 institutions across the world by 2024. A new student assessment framework was launched recently by India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for grades 6 to 10. The new mechanism aims to improve overall learning outcomes of students and primarily covers three subjects, English (reading), science and mathematics.

In 2020, a total of 1,233 students in the South Pacific Form Seven Certificate (SPFSC) programme overcame the challenges of COVID-19 to successfully complete the requirements of the regional qualification. According to the results released last month, this represents an impressive 89 per cent pass r…

Digital assessments that include elements of student choice encourage high school students to engage deeply with course content.

The results from the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM)—a new regional large-scale student learning assessment program, designed by and for countries in Southeast Asia—were released in December 2020. SEA-PLM 2019 data show that learning for all children is still a far-off goal and th…

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on school leaving, university entrance and other high stakes exams around the world. Many northern hemisphere countries have exams around this time of year and have had to decide what action they will take. Major decisions have been taken to continue as p…

Starting 16 March, join the IIEP-UNESCO online learning series, hosted by the IIEP Learning Portal, to explore new evidence on the use of learning assessment data in sub-Saharan Africa and discuss with experts from around the world on this important issue.

New research finds that high achievement cultures can kill a kid’s love of learning, specifically in math.

João Pedro Azevedo, Lead Economist…

When UN Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), there was not much discussion about how these goals were going to be measured. As we enter the Decade of Action, deciding on a measurement strategy for all SDGs and their targets has become a pressing issue.

ACER Chief Executive Professor Geoff Masters says traditional curriculum and assessment systems are ‘fundamentally inequitable’.

Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs include Evaluate: Criticize, Judge, Defend, Appraise, Value, Prioritize, Revise, Argue, Support, and Re-design.

This International Day of Education, we announce the launch of a special webinar series on the challenges facing Australian school education in a changed world.

The Well-Being Index is a brief self-assessment designed to capture a holistic view of each student’s sense of their own physical, emotional and social health.