Education and development

A recent study reveals that parental attitudes towards education and increasing preschool attendance are crucial to improving reading literacy in Southeast Asia.

A recent 3-year study on Samoa’s education system, undertaken by ACER in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Culture, explores policies and practices that can mitigate disruptions to schooling and promote education system quality and resilience.

ACER UK is supporting Ghana to use its national assessments to report on global minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics.

ACER UK, in collaboration with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), is working to enhance the quality and use of education assessment data. The partnership aims to ensure that all children and young people achieve minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics, in alignment with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4.1.1. By leveraging ACER’s global leadership in assessment and the local expertise of FCDO’s education advisers, the partnership focuses on addressing significant data deficiencies in several countries.

ACER supports countries to align their large-scale assessments with global reporting criteria to measure progress towards SDG 4.

This International Day of Education, we investigate whether AI can be used to address some of education’s persistent challenges.