Dear friends! From the bottoms of our hearts, we, READ Program team, would like to wish you merry upcoming holidays! We very much hope that the coming year will bring us many reasons and opportunities for face-to-face meetings and productive work. Because of this cooperation with you, our long-term partners, we look confidently into…
Europe and Central Asia Comparative Education Society and Russian Center for Formative Assessment are happy to announce the publishing of the book “Formative assessment for teaching and learning” in Russian. The authors of the book are Professor Bill Boyle and Dr. Marie Charles. Professor Bill Boyle was Professor of Education, the Chair of Educational Assessment…
RTI International published a new research “Shifting teachers’ practice in early mathematics classrooms in Ghana: a case study”. Teachers need high-quality teaching and learning materials for instruction in classrooms, including core materials like teacher guides and textbooks, and supplemental materials like decodable readers. However, in early grade mathematics, it often left up to the teacher…
Two READ projects – International Research of Students Achievements and School Educational Quality Assessment Project – were accepted and published by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs as “SDG Good Practices, Success Stories and Lessons Learned in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda”. In the five years since the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable…
Annual conference of the Eurasian Association for Educational Assessment took place in Moscow in blended (online and onsite) format. In situation of ongoing restrictions related to the COVID-2019 pandemic, countries continue to grapple with new challenges, including and especially in the area of education. Most educational systems have adapted to some degree to operate in…
After some forced break in meeting UNESCOs Global Alliance to Monitor Learning had an online meeting. The 8th meeting of the TCG (TCG8) took place on Tuesday 2 November 2021 through ZOOM platform. The TCG8 meeting focused on providing an update on the global, thematic and regional methodological developments to fill data gaps, on discussing…
The book “Assessment of education quality in the context of distance learning” was published in Moscow. The publication is the result of the work of the World Bank specialists together with the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Eurasian Association for the Assessment of the Quality of Education with support of the READ…
5th UNESCO Forum on transformative education for sustainable development, global citizenship, health and well-being will take place on November 30 – December 1st 2021. UNESCO and APCEIU will bring together experts in education for sustainable development, global citizenship education and education for health and well-being to discuss good practices, progress, monitoring and mainstreaming transformative education…
UNESCO Institute of Statistic released new data for Sustainable Development Goals. In the current release, the UIS provides data for 44 SDG indicators, including the new global indicator 4.7.1 Mainstreaming global citizenship education and education for sustainable development and thematic indicator 4.1.0 Proportion of children/young people prepared for the future. The UIS piloted approaches to…
CICED and Europe and Central Asia Comparative Education Society provided UN NGO Major Group with technical assistance in translation of the Position Paper for the High Level Political Forum 2021. The NGO Major Group is tasked with facilitating the participation and enhancing the engagement of non-governmental organizations in the processes directly and indirectly related to…
Two READ projects (International Research of Student Achievements and cross-country localization of the SAM monitoring) were submitted for inclusion into 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR). The Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) is a United Nations publication aimed to strengthen the science-policy interface at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development. Drafted by an…
One of the main objectives of the READ Program is to develop regional and transnational cooperation and partnerships between specialists and experts in the field of education assessment. READ has fostered such partnerships through joint projects, training, educational events, and grant programs. Countless joint discussions and exchanges of views organized within the Program lead to…
In 2021 UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning will hold a series of webinars dedicated to the recent challenges that education systems all over the world faced in the 2020 due to pandemic. The first webinar “Teachers on the frontline: lessons from COVID-19” was held on February 16th. Since the world remains to wrestle with…
Through the years of implementation, the READ Program has raised a cohort of national experts in participating countries who now realize their career aspirations taking a part in global dialogue on the future of education. They do it through different tools offered by the international organizations such as, for example, UN Major Groups. UN Major…