By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and Andres Sandoval-Hernandez, Senior Lecturer, University of Bath
International large-scale assessments (ILSAs) in education are considered by many to be the best source of information for measuring and monitoring progress of several SDG 4 indicators. They currently provide information about literacy levels among children and youth from around 100 education systems with unrivalled data quality assurance mechanisms.
However, while there are many of these such assessments, they are not easy compare, making it hard to assess the progress of one area of the world against another. Each assessment: has a different assessment framework; is measured on a different scale; and is designed to inform decision-making in different educational contexts.
For this reason, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has spearheaded Rosetta Stone. This is a methodological programme led by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement and the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Its aim is to offers a strategy for countries participating in different ILSAs to measure and monitor progress on learning to feed into SDG indicator 4.1.1 in a comparable fashion. This is a pioneering effort, perhaps the first of its kind in the field of learning measurement. Read more of this post
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