This webinar recording was from the NEQMAP Annual Meeting last 15-16 December 2022 under Session 5: Knowledge sharing – large scale assessment with the topic of Building capacity to analyse and use large-scale assessment data to inform policy and planning. The presentation was about the role of Learning Progressions in global education monitoring by Ursula Schwantner, ACER, Head of the Global Education Monitoring Centre (GEM).
Information about the Speaker:
Ursula Schwantner is the head of the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Centre, a long-term partnership between the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The goal of the GEM Centre is to improve learning by ensuring that education policies, practices and investments are influenced by high-quality evidence. Ursula is a Steering Group member of NEQMAP, and the GEM Centre’s focal point for the Teaching and Learning Educators’ Network for Transformation (TALENT, hosted by UNESCO Dakar) and the People’s Action for Learning (PAL) Network. Ursula led the ACER research team that developed the toolkit for the GPE initiative Analysis of National Learning Assessment Systems (ANLAS). She is also heavily involved in ACER’s technical partnership with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics in developing tools, methods, and processes for countries to report progress with United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal in Education (SDG 4). Prior to joining ACER in 2014, Ursula was the National Project Manager for OECD/PISA in Austria, and has conducted research on PISA, IEA/PIRLS and TIMSS.
Author(s): Ursula Schwantner
Year Published: 2022
Language: English
Country: Australia
Download: https://youtu.be/WjlcESaY-fA
