International Development
Education Assessment and Evaluation
AIR's educational assessment work in developing countries helps governments determine what students should know and be able to do in relation to standards and curriculum.
Our 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.
AIR's education assessment work focuses on:
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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. Read More >
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UNICEF contracted AIR in 2008 to conduct a global evaluation of the Child Friendly Schools (CFS) initiative, based on site visits to CFS in six countries. The evaluation was a baseline that addressed the challenge of variability and examined inclusiveness, pedagogy, architecture and services, participation and governance, systemic management, and cost in CFSs in South Africa, Thailand, Guyana, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Nicaragua. Read More >
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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. Read More >
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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. Read More >
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