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.
Written by policymakers, practitioners, and researchers, the book’s 21 chapters emphasize that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic provides an opportunity to build education systems that are stronger and more equitable. The book discusses closing the digital gap, improving learning assessment,
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
COVID-19 led to prolonged school closures to varying degrees across developing Asia. These disruptions will affect the skills students acquire and eventually their productivity as future workers. Various distance learning strategies are being used, but they are only partially effective.
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
This study examines existing regional-level monitoring/ assessment tools, such as International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) and the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM). It addresses the possibilities, shortcomings, and implications for measuring global citizenship comptence, as well as
Emergencies and crises (e.g. natural disasters, conflicts, pandemics) often take a particularly heavy toll on education systems and learners, since the initial and immediate response is often school closures. Educational systems in the Asia-Pacific have adopted measures to respond to
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted education across the globe leading countries to adapt how they administer and manage high-stakes examinations and large-scale learning assessments. This thematic review describes the measures that countries have taken, in terms of policies and practices,
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
The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence on the types of inputs that matter to improving educational outcomes by documenting educational inputs across economies, using a scoring system that attempts to capture quality dimensions. The authors undertook
As COVID-19 continues spreading in many countries of the world, how to keep learning in disruption has become a major challenge to the global education community. Specifically in China, to contain the COVID-19, the Chinese government has banned most-face-to-face activities,
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
An analysis of 21st Century Skills integration in the Philippines was designed to support the Philippines identify a strategy for assessment, teaching, and learning of 21st century skills (21CS). This project identified and built on a number of recent studies
This Issue Note highlights the coping strategies of countries in managing high-stakes exams during the COVID-19 crisis. To contain the spread of virus, many countries have shifted to online and distance learning and assessment modalities. Countries have adopted different strategies
