Assessment

Professional development can help teachers better support students in developing literacy skills. In this article, we share a model of assessment-informed professional development used in one of our IBT schools in India.

New tool enables countries to report the proportion of children and young people reaching the global minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics.

Today, the School Education Department, Government of West Bengal and the Australian Council for Educational Research (India) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on ‘Transforming Educational Assessments in Schools of West Bengal’.

Read our new feature about ground-breaking methods and tools developed by the GEM Centre to enable countries to monitor progress towards SDG 4.

In this video, Dr Amrita Vohra, COO and Director, GEMS Education, India Region & Executive Principal, GEMS International School, Gurgaon shares her experience of using IBT for more than 3 years. 

Results from Bangladesh’s first national learning assessment in primary education since the pandemic suggest there have been no widespread learning losses despite severe disruptions to schooling. Significant proportions of students, however, remain below grade level expectations.