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Learning Assessments in the Gambia. IIEP Information Sheet
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Raudonyte, Ieva; Furiv, Uliana – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2021
Large-scale learning assessments can be used to generate performance and contextual data on student learning outcomes. They can be national, regional, or international; school based or household based. The UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP-UNESCO) has conducted a qualitative study to explore both how and why learning…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Elementary Secondary Education, National Competency Tests
The Use of Learning Assessment Data: Ghana. IIEP Policy Brief. No. 4
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Raudonyte, Ieva – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2021
Although the number of countries conducting large-scale assessments has increased significantly over the past two decades, this has not necessarily led to the effective use of learning assessment data in policy-making and planning. To better understand the reasons for this, the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Measurement, Data Use, Educational Planning
Homework and Primary-School Students' Academic Achievement in Latin America
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Murillo, F. Javier; Martinez-Garrido, Cynthia – International Review of Education, 2014
This paper explores teachers' habits (1) in terms of setting homework for their students and (2) in terms of building on homework in the classroom. Based on data collected in UNESCO's Second Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (SERCE), the sample size of this analysis is about 200,000 Primary Grade 3 and 6 students in 16 Latin American…
Descriptors: Homework, Primary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
School Infrastructure and Resources Do Matter: Analysis of the Incidence of School Resources on the Performance of Latin American Students
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Murillo, F. Javier; Roman, Marcela – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2011
The purpose of this investigation is to determine the incidence of school infrastructure and resources and its impact on the academic performance of primary education students in Latin America. A 4-level multilevel model was applied to the data of the Second Regional Comparative and Explanatory Study (SERCE) conducted by UNESCO, which researched…
Descriptors: Incidence, School Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Latin Americans
Teaching Peace through Picture Books in a Third-Grade Classroom
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Seban, Demet – Intercultural Education, 2011
In 2000, UNESCO declared a mission for peace named the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010). The "culture of peace" was defined as a set of "values, attitudes and behaviours ... that reject violence and endeavour to prevent conflicts by tackling their root causes to…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Picture Books, Democracy, Peace
How Effective Are Private Schools in Latin America?
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Somers, Marie-Andree; McEwan, Patrick J.; Willms, J. Douglas – Comparative Education Review, 2004
In 1997, the Santiago office of UNESCO implemented an assessment of student achievement in Latin America, working in collaboration with 13 Latin American ministries of education. Using a common sampling methodology and survey instruments, researchers in each country collected representative samples of data on third- and fourth-grade achievement in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics, Peer Groups