What issues and opportunities for national monitoring emerge from the proposed post-2015 international education agenda Ms Marguerite Clarke, World Bank

ED/TLC/LTR/2015/04 Original: English

What issues and opportunities for national monitoring emerge from the proposed post-2015 international education agenda

Ms Marguerite Clarke, World Bank

Consultation on National Assessments and

Measuring Learning for the Post-2015 Education Agenda

UNESCO Headquarters, 26-27 February 2015

Summary

Drawing on the framework for the World Bank’s SABER-Student Assessment programme, this presentation briefly discusses three factors for guiding the development and implementation of effective national learning assessment systems: (i) the enabling context, (ii) system

alignment, and (iii) the quality and use of assessment data. It also describes three key categories of assessment activities that can be found in most national learning assessment systems: classroom-based assessment, examinations, and survey-type assessments.

Introductory Session

Plenary Discussion

What issues & opportunities for national monitoring emerge from

the proposed post-2015

international education agenda?

Assessment Framework

1. Indicators 2. Development Levels

Classroom

assessment Examinations Large-scale assessment Enabling context

System alignment

Assessment quality

Guiding Questions on Issues &

Opportunities for National Monitoring

1. How can national assessments help inform progress towards global goals?

2. What issues should be addressed to build stronger and more useful national

assessments of learning?

3. What topics or ideas do you want to raise

for discussion during this meeting?