11 Mar 2016
Through Aditi’s Eyes: The Importance of Early Grade Assessment in Tracking Children’s Learning By Hannah-May Wilson
By Hannah-May Wilson, PAL Network Secretariat. Meet Aditi. Aditi is 11 years old. Aditi lives with her mother and younger sister Didi,... Read More
15 Feb 2016
ASER 2015 Results from Pakistan: Making the Invisible Visible By Sehar Saeed
By Sehar Saeed, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan. The recently launched ASER Report 2015 is a testament to civil society... Read More
08 Feb 2016
Measuring Learning: the Cost of Ignorance By Silvia Montoya
Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics Let’s be honest. For the past few months, we – the international education community – have... Read More
19 Nov 2015
Learning Assessments as Public Goods? By Michel Carton and Velibor Jakovleski
By Michel Carton and Velibor Jakovleski, NORRAG The intentions behind the “data revolution” in terms of policy-making are relatively straightforward. Data are... Read More
27 Oct 2015
Whose Learning Should be Prioritized? By Sehar Saeed
By Sehar Saeed, Annual Status of Education Report, Pakistan. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a set of all-encompassing goals promising... Read More
05 Feb 2015
ASER 2014: Engaging Citizens to Measure Learning Outcomes and Spark Change in Pakistan
By Sehar Saeed, Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan. Over the past fifteen years, thanks in large part to the Millennium... Read More
09 Jan 2015
Learning Targets and Cognitive Science: How much Knowledge Do Low-income Children Catch in their Memory Nets? By Helen Abadzi
By Helen Abadzi, College of Education, University of Texas at Arlington. Around 1973, a young Indian woman fell ill and went into... Read More
08 Sep 2014
Lessons From Chengdu (2): The Political Economy of Learning Metrics By Trey Menefee
By Trey Menefee , Hong Kong Institute of Education I argued in my previous NORRAG blog post, Lessons From Chengdu: The Case... Read More
04 Sep 2014
Lessons From Chengdu: The Case For ‘Open-Source’ Learning Metric Methods By Trey Menefee
By Trey Menefee, Hong Kong Institute of Education. A few years ago I tried to learn a research technique called Agent-Based Modeling... Read More
14 Aug 2014
The Challenges of Implementing Assessment to Improve Learning – the Latest Report from the Learning Metrics Task Force By Rukmini Banerji
By Rukmini Banerji, Pratham and Learning Metrics Task Force. As is common on hot summer afternoons in villages in India, a man... Read More