Category Archives: Literacy

Counting the cost of COVID-19 on learning in rural Kenya

Posted on 11 May 2021 by GEM Report

By Dr Junaid Mubeen, Director of Education at Whizz Education Learning loss has floated into the lexicon of educators, as we reckon with the consequences of COVID-19 on students’ academic progress. It can be defined in multiple ways. At Whizz … Continue reading →

Posted in Learning, Literacy | Tagged coronavirus, covid-19, covid19, learning, learning assessments, learning outcomes | 1 Comment

Cancel exams? What is an appropriate response to the COVID-19 disruption?

Posted on 13 April 2021 by GEM Report

🔊 Listen to this blog ‘Dear Government, please remember before deciding between offline and online exams that we’ll be able to vote next year ;)’, tweeted several students in India last week. In recent days, ‘cancelboardexams2021’ has been trending on … Continue reading →

Posted in Literacy, Testing | Tagged coronavirus, covid19, exams, target 4.6, Testing | Leave a comment

Prepared for the Future: A new indicator that combines completion with learning

Posted on 29 October 2020 by GEM Report

English / Español New global indicator will provide a simple, comprehensive measure of progress towards the education goal, SDG4. By Silvia Montoya, Director, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Manos Antoninis, Director, Global Education Monitoring Report The Sustainable Development Goal … Continue reading →

Posted in data, Learning, Literacy, monitoring, sdgs | Tagged learning, learning outcomes, SDG4, target 4.1 | Leave a comment

South Asia’s progress in tracking basic numeracy with a new assessment

Posted on 9 September 2020 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

A new comparable learning assessment designed in the Global South, For the Global South: Exploring the ICAN 2019 Findings

Posted on 10 July 2020 by GEM Report

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 | 1 Comment

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on prosocial skills

Posted on 29 May 2020 by GEM Report

By Gabriel Bădescu, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania, and GEM Report fellow All over the world, he Covid-19 pandemic has led to school closures. Poorer nations have tended to bring in stricter measures, relative to the severity of their outbreaks, … Continue reading →

Posted in access, Developing countries, digital literacy, Literacy | Tagged coronavirus, covid19 | 2 Comments

Jane Bouvier: helping Roma children access their right to education

Posted on 13 May 2020 by GEM Report

Jane is one of many champions being highlighted by the GEM Report in the run up to the launch of its 2020 publication on inclusion and education: All means all, due out 23 June. In their own way, and in … Continue reading →

Posted in Early childhood care and education, Inclusion, Learning, Literacy, Teachers, teaching | Tagged 2020 GEM Report, Inclusion, inclusion champions | Leave a comment

How can we stop language barriers holding back learning for people on the move?

Posted on 21 February 2020 by GEM Report

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 | 2 Comments

Building the Foundations: Highlights from ASER 2019 Early Years report

Posted on 17 January 2020 by GEM Report

By Hannah-May Wilson, Education Partnerships Group For the last fifteen years, Pratham’s Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) has provided an important and timely reminder that schooling does not equal learning. There is now wide acceptance that – despite spending … Continue reading →

Posted in Early childhood care and education, Learning, Literacy, Uncategorized | Tagged early childhood care and education, early-grade learning, learning, target 4.2 | 3 Comments

Linking data to get results: India shows how countries can use their national assessments for global reporting

Posted on 18 November 2019 by GEM Report

By Silvia Montoya, Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and Professor Hrushikesh Senapaty, Director, National Council of Educational Research and Training of India (NCERT) The international reporting of learning outcomes is a critical but complex undertaking at the … Continue reading →