The Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) is a new regional assessment developed specifically for the countries represented under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations… Read More »Better and more information on factors influencing learning across Southeast Asia
Assessing students’ views of quality of school life (QSL) could shed light on ways to promote and assure the quality of school education. However, research… Read More »Conceptualization of students’ quality of school life: Findings from an empirical study in Malaysia
Every student has different characteristics. Therefore, the style and pace of learning depend on the context, personal characteristics and home background of the learner. Similarly,… Read More »Exploring factors related to students’ learning achievement in Nepal
The National Education Assessment System (NEAS) of the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training of Pakistan has been conducting national achievement testing (NAT) of students… Read More »What can National Achievement Testing 2017 data tell us? Student performance in grades 4 and 8 in Pakistan
Every three years the media turns its attention to the results from PISA, the Programme for International Student Assessment, which compares the performance of 15-year-old… Read More »PISA 2015 contextual data and the case of the digital divide
Why capture socioeconomic status? Socioeconomic status (SES) is an important element in understanding the data from educational large-scale assessments – be they international, regional or… Read More »Monitoring equity: Socioeconomic status in learning assessment
As the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) celebrates its fifth anniversary, its efforts to improve the quality of learning assessments are… Read More »Five years on, NEQMAP redouble efforts to improve quality learning assessment data in Asia-Pacific
Education systems around the world are making the shift from paper to computer-based testing, which can offer an effective and efficient means of conducting assessments.… Read More »Computer-based testing: What you need to know – UNESCO, IAEA offer seminar
2017 was another year of growth and expansion for the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia Pacific (NEQMAP), for which UNESCO Bangkok serves… Read More »NEQMAP Highlights from 2017: Research and Knowledge Sharing
The Catalogue of Learning Assessments (CLA) is the UNESCO Institute for Statistics’ (UIS) initiative to compile standardized information on various aspects of learning (or skill) assessments in… Read More »A New Initiative by UIS to Strengthen the Development of SDG 4 Learning and Skill Indicators
What is a culture of testing? High-stakes exams often determine learners’ futures: transition, graduation, entrance to higher education, to better schools, or to better jobs.… Read More »Social Expectations of Learning – the Culture of Testing
Despite having a high enrollment, children continue to struggle with basic arithmetic and language skills. Study shows, although around 95 per cent of Indian children… Read More »From Assessment to Action by Teaching at the Right Level
On September 23, 2015, the Ministry of Education in South Korea adopted the National Guidelines of the 2015 Revised National Curriculum. The new national curriculum… Read More »New Education Policies and Practices in South Korea
Recognizing the importance of capacity development, NEQMAP devotes significant attention to activities which aim to enhance the institutional capacity of the countries in the region… Read More »Capacity development
1. The Impact of Large-Scale Learning Assessments on Education Policy and Practice A systematic review on the impact of large-scale learning assessment on policy and… Read More »Research