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Education Assessment and Evaluation in Developing Countries

AIR plays a strong role in shaping education assessment and evaluation in developing countries. Our educational assessment work helps to determine what students should know and be able to do in relation to standards and curriculum. AIR’s work includes formative, summative, diagnostic, and international assessment, and is used to measure student or system performance. It is also used for accountability at the school or district level. Our evaluation work involves carefully collecting information about a project or program in order to assess effectiveness and make decisions.

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Recent Reports

• Literacy Policy and Practice in Ethiopia: Building on the TELL Program and EGRA Results

  The purpose of this study on early grade reading and English language learning in primary education in Ethiopia was to explore current policies and practice and make evidence-based recommendations to improve early grade reading and English language learning in Ethiopia.

• Child Friendly Schools Evaluation: Country Report for Nigeria

  The Child Friendly Schools (CFS) initiative in Nigeria was developed as a partnership between the Ministry of Education, UNICEF, and other national and international organizations in response to the dire state of education in Nigeria in the 1990’s.

• Child Friendly Schools Evaluation: Country Report for Thailand

  UNICEF contracted with AIR in January 2008 to conduct a global evaluation of the Child Friendly Schools (CFS) initiative. The evaluation was expected to serve as a baseline assessment that would examine the effectiveness of UNICEF’s CFS programming efforts in the areas of inclusiveness, pedagogy, architecture and services, participation and governance, and systemic management. Thailand was selected as one of the six countries for the global evaluation.

Recent Projects

• AIR Helps Honduras Evaluate Academic Performance at the Census Level

  

  Student academic performance is being evaluated in Honduras at the census level for the first time as part of AIR’s USAID-funded project, Improving the Impact of Student Development in Honduras (MIDEH).

• Mejorando el Impacto al Desempeño Estudiantil de Honduras (MIDEH-Honduras)

  

  To support the implementation of a new curriculum classrooms throughout Honduras, the AIR project, Mejorando el Impacto al Desempeño Estudiantil de Honduras, has developed a national testing system based on content standards in Math and Spanish.

• Malawi’s Primary School Support Program: A School Fees Pilot (PSSP:SFP)

  

  The Primary School Support Program: A School Fees Pilot (PSSP:SFP) was a three-year project funded by USAID/Malawi and the Government of Malawi to improve the quality of education in Dowa District. PSSP:SFP also had a mandate from the U.S. Congress to develop and pilot strategies that reduce the cost of schooling for Malawi’s most vulnerable children.