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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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  • 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.

  • Ukrainian Standardized External Testing Initiative (USETI)

    The USAID-funded Ukrainian Standardized External Testing Initiative (USETI) was aimed at helping the Government of Ukraine (GOU) introduce external standardized testing as a mandatory criterion for university admissions, thus mitigating corrupt practices in higher education in Ukraine.

  • EQUIP2: Namibia Basic Education Support (BES III) Technical Support to DNEA

    Namibia’s Education and Training Sector Improvement Programme (ETSIP) has called for the development of national standardized achievement tests. Currently, learners in Namibia take nationwide, formal examinations at three points in their schooling—at the end of grades 7, 10, and 12—yet almost no information is collected from learners in primary school.

  • Programme Haitien d’Appui à la Réforme de l’Education (PHARE) – ABE/LINK

    The Programme Haitien d’Appui à la Réforme de l’Education (PHARE) in Haiti is a USAID-funded, deliverables-based contract with AIR. PHARE is USAID’s response to the Government of Haiti’s effort to restore, sustain, and expand education and health services. PHARE’s main objective is to reinforce the capacity of the Ministry of Education and Professional Training (MENFP) to plan, deliver, monitor, and evaluate educational services in public and non-public schools.