Centre for Global Education Monitoring

Six policy notes on effective interventions in early childhood education and care (ECEC) provide insights from a recent scoping review undertaken by ACER. This review examined 109 ECEC interventions in low and middle income countries over the past 20 years which…

Many education systems are creating new professional standards for teachers, but how can these standards be validated cost-effectively? This Snapshot Literature Review summarises trends in validation studies of teacher professional standards, to help guide future…

Ethiopia is the first country to pilot the ACER-developed toolkit for the Analysis of National Learning Assessment Systems (ANLAS) by the GPE. ACER-GEM is contributing to the in-country support of the national team.

The new GPE initiative – The Analysis of National Learning Assessment Systems (ANLAS) – aims to strengthen learning assessment systems in partner countries. The ANLAS toolkit is developed by ACER, with substantial input from ACER-GEM specialists.

Initiated jointly by NEQMAP and ACER-GEM, this topical case study highlights an example from Nepal of how data from learning assessment are used effectively in education policy and planning.

The MTEG program assessed around 5000 Class 3 students in 15 provinces of Afghanistan in 2015-2016 in reading and mathematical literacy using a tablet-based assessment. This report provides information on Class 3 achievement and describes the growth in…

This short paper describes how the development of global learning progressions provides an innovative solution, to balance the need for flexibility and consistency in global monitoring of learning.

As a technical partner of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, ACER-GEM has created reporting scales for reading and maths, with the intention of enabling countries to examine and report the outcomes of their assessment activities using a common framework. The newly…

Read the Assessment Framework for the Monitoring Trends in Educational Growth (MTEG) program in Afghanistan. MTEG is designed to monitor the learning growth of students from early to middle years of schooling.

As a technical partner of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, ACER contributes to the GAML by developing tools and methods to support the monitoring of the Education Sustainable Development Goals, and strengthen countries’ capacity to monitor learning.

ACER conducted a sector review of girls’ primary and secondary education in Malawi for UNICEF and Malawi’s Ministry of Education Science and Technology. The review investigated a range of factors that contributed to gender inequalities in access, quality…

Ray Adams writes about progress with the collaborative work undertaken by ACER's Centre for Global Education Monitoring (ACER-GEM) with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) on developing a global scale that benchmarks student performance in reading and…