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Tag Archives: literacy
South Asia’s progress in tracking basic numeracy with a new assessment
By Steffi Elizabeth Thomas, Senior Research Associate, Pratham Education Foundation-ASER Centre, India and Waqas Imran, Data Analyst, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), Pakistan There has been a global shift in focus towards the quality of education under … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs, Uncategorized
Tagged learning, learning assessments, learning outcomes, literacy, numeracy, target 4.6
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A new comparable learning assessment designed in the Global South, For the Global South: Exploring the ICAN 2019 Findings
By Ketan Verma, PAL Network and Hannah-May Wilson, Education Partnerships Group Ambika’s house was built with red bricks and a corrugated steel roof and had spectacularly clear views of the Himalayas. We visited her village to understand whether children went … Continue reading
Posted in Learning, Literacy, Uncategorized
Tagged assessments, learning, literacy, numeracy
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How can we stop language barriers holding back learning for people on the move?
One in five students have a migrant background in OECD countries, resulting in multi-lingual / multi-cultural classrooms. Yet only half of immigrants receive language support in OECD countries on average. Arriving in a new country and suddenly sitting in a … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, Literacy, refugees, Uncategorized
Tagged Inclusion, language, literacy, mother-tongue, refugees, target 4.6
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The kids are not completing
Why completion rates should be part of the SDG global indicator framework By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and Manos Antoninis, Director of the Global Education Monitoring Report The clock is ticking, with just over a … Continue reading
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Tagged completion, data, learning, literacy, SDG 4, target 4.1
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How much does it cost to achieve universal literacy?
As events for International Literacy Day continue, new cost estimates have been produced by UNESCO showing that US$14 billion will be needed if the 20 countries with the lowest literacy rates, which are members of the Global Alliance for Literacy … Continue reading
Posted in Adult education, Literacy, Uncategorized, Youth
Tagged adult literacy, literacy, numeracy, target 4.6, youth literacy
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About 15-40% of illiterate people come from households in which no member can read
This International Literacy Day we want to draw attention to those living in households where no member can read – those we call ‘isolated illiterate individuals’ – whose chances of finding work and enjoying a good quality of life can … Continue reading
Posted in Inclusion, Learning, Literacy, Uncategorized
Tagged illiteracy, Inclusion, learning, literacy, target 4.6
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The learning assessment market: pointers for countries – part 2
By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Luis Crouch, Senior Economist, RTI International [1] In a previous blog, we argued that the market for learning assessment is very inefficient and therefore warrants public action. As things stand: More than … Continue reading
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Tagged assessment, learning, learning assessments, literacy
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The learning assessment market: pointers for countries – part 1
By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Luis Crouch, Senior Economist, RTI International [1] Measuring learning outcomes is key to the Sustainable Development Goal for education (SDG 4). There are about a dozen indicators that measure learning … Continue reading
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Tagged learning, learning assessments, learning outcomes, literacy
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It is time to upgrade the SDG 4 learning indicator for young children
By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) We are on the cusp of a new phase in the global measurement of learning. For the first time, representatives of cross-national learning assessments have agreed on a set … Continue reading
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Tagged data, literacy, monitoring, target 4.1
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100 million young people are still illiterate
This International Literacy Day there’s plenty to celebrate – the number of young people aged 15-24 with no literacy skills worldwide has fallen by 27% since 2000, a fact we hope to see reflected in plummeting adult literacy rates over … Continue reading