Quality & standards

ACER’s work helps policymakers, leaders and educators to identify and implement evidence-based policies and practices to improve educational outcomes for learners around the world.

21 Mar 2025

education and development

Using Ghana's National Standardised Tests to report against SDG 4.1.1

ACER UK and FCDO collaborate to collect quality data on student proficiency

Enabling countries to report on SDG 4

Enhancing education monitoring

Teaching performance tool: Insights from systematic classroom observations

A global imperative to tackle tertiary system reform

Australia is not the only country that seeks a lot from its tertiary sector. The challenge for all countries is to find a way to achieve a multitude of goals, including increasing access and relevance for a productive society.

Research Conference 2025: Reshaping learning ecosystems

A new tool to fill the data gap on learning: AMPL

Quality education for all

31 May 2023

Effective disability-inclusive teacher professional learning needed

Recent GEM Centre research recommends measuring the effectiveness of teacher professional development initiatives on disability inclusion.

1 Dec 2022

Enabling teachers to support students with disability

New research identifies evidence gaps in teacher professional development interventions for students with disability in the Asia-Pacific region.

22 Aug 2022

Building capacity in Africa to monitor learning outcomes

New COVID-19 initiative helps to build capacity of countries in sub-Saharan Africa to monitor children’s learning.

16 Mar 2020

Evaluating a remedial learning program in Zambia

ACER is conducting an evaluation of a remedial learning program in literacy and numeracy for primary school students in Zambia.

31 Jan 2020

A new toolkit to analyse national learning assessment systems

Following successful pilots in Ethiopia, Mauritania and Vietnam, the Global Partnership for Education and ACER have launched a resource for countries to analyse and improve their learning assessment systems.

17 Jan 2020

Supporting high-quality assessment in Bhutan

ACER India has conducted a series of workshops to increase Bhutan’s expertise in national assessment item development, questionnaire design and sampling procedures.

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