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How ICAN adds Value in the Global, Regional and National Education Monitoring Landscape
(2020)
Abstract
As a special member of the PAL Network, the Australian Council for Educational Research – Centre for Global Education Monitoring (ACER-GEM) has been providing technical support to citizen-led assessments since 2014. At the heart of this collaboration is the aim to further develop the methodological strength and rigour of citizen-led assessments as an essential data source for education monitoring. As a technical partner of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), which has been mandated with monitoring progress towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Education (SDG 4), ACER-GEM has contributed substantially to the refinement of the UIS Minimum Proficiency Levels that define what learners are expected to demonstrate for achieving SDG 4 indicator 4.1.1 (a) about the proportion of children achieving minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics. In this context, ACER-GEM provided technical support to the PAL Network for developing the ICAN testing tools with the view to broadening the scope of citizen-led assessments in line with the SDG 4 minimum proficiency requirements.
Keywords
- Educational access,
- Assessment,
- Foundational reading,
- Learning assessment,
- Learning levels,
- Quality education,
- Children,
- Literacy,
- Numeracy,
- Sustainable development goals
Disciplines
Publication Date
July, 2020
Citation Information
Ursula Schwantner and Maurice Walker. "How ICAN adds Value in the Global, Regional and National Education Monitoring Landscape" (2020) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/maurice_walker/25/