Global Education Monitoring Centre

ACER-GEM, a special member of the PAL Network, supported the development of the “International Common Assessment of Numeracy” ICAN, with the view to broadening the scope of citizen-led assessments in line with the SDG 4 minimum proficiency…

Join the IIEP Learning Portal webinar with the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) and the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO) on 12 March, 8am (CET) in English and 4pm (CET) in…

Developed by ACER with GEM contribution, the GPE initiative Analysis of National Learning Assessment Systems (ANLAS) supports countries to strengthen learning assessment systems.

ACER-GEM and the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) at UNESCO Bangkok has published the third paper in a series of topical case studies for the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) program. It provides a detailed…

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…