Global Education Monitoring Centre

Monitoring progress in literacy requires the international cooperation of the education community, Ross Turner explains in this article about the latest in the Assessment GEMs series.

Read the new report by ACER GEM, A Review of International Large-Scale Assessments in Education, commissioned by the OECD and World Bank, as part of the PISA for Development project. The review covers major international, regional and national large-scale…

View the article by Jeaniene Spink, first published online in Perspectives magazine by The Economist Intelligence Unit.

Insights from the Asia-Pacific region. Find out more and access the recent joint report by ACER GEM and NEQMAP.

View the UKFIET 2015 symposium papers presented by ACER and Mary Fearnley-Sander.

Dr Rukmini Banerji, Director of the ASER Centre India and CEO of the Pratham Education Foundation, is a keynote speaker at ACER’s Research Conference 2015.

New research reveals that girls are outperforming boys in reading and writing literacy in Afghanistan, despite receiving less support to attend school.

Assessment experts from ACER’s GEM Centre conducted a review of four citizen-led assessments: Annual Status of Education Report (ASER, India), Beekunko (Mali), Jàngandoo (Senegal), and Uwezo (Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda). Findings of the review are part…

A new book that draws on ACER’s work on one of the world’s largest international surveys is providing educators with important insights about how assessment can be used to improve learning outcomes. Ross Turner introduces this book, and discusses how…

The MTEG program tested 6000 Class 6 students in 13 provinces of Afghanistan in November 2013 in reading, writing and mathematical literacy. This survey-based assessment will provide teachers, teacher educators and policy makers with an important baseline to help…