CICED supported publishing of the “Formative Assessment for teaching and learning”. The publication of the book can be attributed to significant events in the application and implementation of the ideas of formative assessment in Russia and the post-Soviet space. The authors of the book, the founders of the ideas of formative assessment with a worldwide…
RTI International published a new research “Shifting teachers’ practice in early mathematics classrooms in Ghana: a case study”. Teachers need high-quality teaching and learning materials for instruction in classrooms, including core materials like teacher guides and textbooks, and supplemental materials like decodable readers. However, in early grade mathematics, it often left up to the teacher…
Two READ projects – International Research of Students Achievements and School Educational Quality Assessment Project – were accepted and published by UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs as “SDG Good Practices, Success Stories and Lessons Learned in the Implementation of the 2030 Agenda”. In the five years since the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable…
Annual conference of the Eurasian Association for Educational Assessment took place in Moscow in blended (online and onsite) format. In situation of ongoing restrictions related to the COVID-2019 pandemic, countries continue to grapple with new challenges, including and especially in the area of education. Most educational systems have adapted to some degree to operate in…
After some forced break in meeting UNESCOs Global Alliance to Monitor Learning had an online meeting. The 8th meeting of the TCG (TCG8) took place on Tuesday 2 November 2021 through ZOOM platform. The TCG8 meeting focused on providing an update on the global, thematic and regional methodological developments to fill data gaps, on discussing…
The book “Assessment of education quality in the context of distance learning” was published in Moscow. The publication is the result of the work of the World Bank specialists together with the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the Eurasian Association for the Assessment of the Quality of Education with support of the READ…
5th UNESCO Forum on transformative education for sustainable development, global citizenship, health and well-being will take place on November 30 – December 1st 2021. UNESCO and APCEIU will bring together experts in education for sustainable development, global citizenship education and education for health and well-being to discuss good practices, progress, monitoring and mainstreaming transformative education…
UNESCO Institute of Statistic released new data for Sustainable Development Goals. In the current release, the UIS provides data for 44 SDG indicators, including the new global indicator 4.7.1 Mainstreaming global citizenship education and education for sustainable development and thematic indicator 4.1.0 Proportion of children/young people prepared for the future. The UIS piloted approaches to…
Two READ projects (International Research of Student Achievements and cross-country localization of the SAM monitoring) were submitted for inclusion into 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR). The Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) is a United Nations publication aimed to strengthen the science-policy interface at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development. Drafted by an…
One of the main objectives of the READ Program is to develop regional and transnational cooperation and partnerships between specialists and experts in the field of education assessment. READ has fostered such partnerships through joint projects, training, educational events, and grant programs. Countless joint discussions and exchanges of views organized within the Program lead to…
In 2021 UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning will hold a series of webinars dedicated to the recent challenges that education systems all over the world faced in the 2020 due to pandemic. The first webinar “Teachers on the frontline: lessons from COVID-19” was held on February 16th. Since the world remains to wrestle with…
Through the years of implementation, the READ Program has raised a cohort of national experts in participating countries who now realize their career aspirations taking a part in global dialogue on the future of education. They do it through different tools offered by the international organizations such as, for example, UN Major Groups. UN Major…
An online workshop named “Implementation of Students’ Achievement Monitoring (SAM) methodology at secondary school physics course” was held on December 17, 2020. In course of the seminar, representatives of Moscow City University (MCU) shared their vision of further development of the SAM model in general and particularly its application to assess competence of pupils in…
An online workshop named “Implementation of Students’ Achievement Monitoring (SAM) methodology at secondary school physics course” will be held on December 17, 2020 at 11:00 Moscow time. The training moderator is Vladimir Lvovskiy, Cand. Sc. Psychology, Head of the Laboratory for Education Activity Content Designing at Moscow City University. You can get to know about…
The 9th Annual international conference of the Eurasian Association for Educational Assessment (EAOKO) was held on November 13-14, 2020. Supported by the READ program, the event went online for the first time due to the pandemic. Despite that more than 250 participants from 11 countries and 32 Russia regions took part at the conference, including…
Eurasian Association for Educational Assessment (EAOKO) invites to join its 9th Annual Conference. The Conference has been arranged in collaboration with HSE Institute of Education with the support from the READ program. It will take place on November 13-14, 2020 as a series of online plenums, round table discussions and webinars, featuring representatives of leading…
On August 24-25, 2020, the State Inspectorate for Supervision of Quality in Education of Uzbekistan in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Institute for Education Development Strategy of the Russian Academy of Education, organized a webinar named “Participation in international research as a motivating factor for human capital development.” Uzbekistan is joining the pool…
On November 15, the Center for International Cooperation on Education Development (CICED), as part of the EAOKO conference in Minsk, organized a session devoted to discussing prospects of using SAM (Students ’Achievement Monitoring) for development of classroom assessment. The first speaker was Peter Nezhnov, the head of the SAM test development team, who presented its…
On November 14 and 15, as part of the EAOKO conference, the Open Institute “Developing Education”, with the support of Center for International Cooperation in Education Development (CICED), held a workshop for teachers devoted to the development of test items according to SAM (Students ’Achievement Monitoring) methodology. In the opening part of the educational module,…
On November 13, 2019, a meeting of the International Research of Students Achievements (IRSA) cross-country study working group was held at the VIII annual international conference in frames of the EAOKO (Eurasian Association for Educational Assessment) at the scientific and methodological institution “National Institute of Education” of the Ministry of Education of Belarus. During the…
The VIII annual international conference of the Eurasian Association for Educational Assessment (EAOKO) was held on November 14-15 in Minsk. Each year a conference topic concerning education assessment is selected according to its significance for partner countries. So, in 2018, the focus was on national exams. In 2019, the topic of the conference was school,…
Harry Patrinos’ speech, World Bank Global Education Practice Manager for Europe and Central Asia, concluded the program of READ conference. It was devoted to sharing a vision of the contribution of READ (Russia Education Aid for Development) program to improving education in the world and trends affecting its future. According to him, the READ program…
On November 6, at READ conference, World Bank representatives made presentations on how Russia Education Aid for Development (READ) program affects the development of education in the world and announced what World Bank plans to undertake in the future to improve it. Introductory remarks were made by Andrei Bokarev, Director of the Department of international…
Center for International Cooperation on Education Development (CICED) held a session in frames of READ conference, at which representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan shared experience and results achieved by their countries in the course of cooperation with READ (Russia Education Aid for Development) program. Participants of the discussion noted that developing countries are…
Representatives from Russia, Armenia, Tajikistan, and Ethiopia shared their experience in reforming examinations at READ conference. The session was opened by Viktor Bolotov, academic director of the Center for Psychometrics and Measurements in Education, HSE Institute of Education, with a presentation on the development and implementation of the Unified State Exam (USE) in Russian Federation.…
On November 5, Vincent Greaney, a member of the READ Program Expert Council, presented the book “Public examinations examined”, which was published under the sponsorship of the World Bank. The content of the book is a summary of 20 years of author’s experience at improving and reforming of countries’ examination systems in Eastern Europe, Asia,…
On November 5, winners of the international competition “Practices of Classroom Assessment-2019” organized with the support of the Center for International Cooperation in Education Development (CICED) shared experience at the READ conference. Tatyana Konovalenko from Samara region presented the technology of working with research projects of students containing embedded elements of classroom assessment. Tatyana Borisenko…
One of the objectives of the READ Program has always been to search for and disseminate the world’s best educational practices and research. The READ-2019 conference provided an opportunity to meet one of the world’s leading experts in the field of formative assessment and training – Professor Bill Boyle. From 1989 to 2014, he was…
Center for International Cooperation in Education Development (CICED) presented a series of reports on the use of monitoring research materials for the development of education in the framework of READ Program conference held in Moscow. Petr Nezhnov, head of the SAM (Test ’Achievement Monitoring) development team, presented the history, purpose, features and development prospects of this…
The X international conference of READ Program, which was held on November 5-6 in Moscow, opened with reports by Elena Kardanova and Elena Lenskaya on the development and prospects of MA and PhD programs created and implemented with the support of READ. During the presentation, E. Kardanova, head of the program for psychometric research and…
November 6-7 2019 a conference convened on the tenth anniversary of the READ (Russian Education Aid for Development) Program was held in Moscow. Experts from around the world convened to reflect on global progress and to reemphasize the continuing need for improved learning assessment systems to effectively combat Learning Poverty. “The world is facing an increasingly…
October 21-23 2019 a 10th meeting of BE2 working group took place at Washington D.C., USA. Building Evidence in Education (BE2) is a donor working group, launched in 2012. BE2’s aim is to establish how evidence on education is currently curated and used and make recommendations to ensure evidence is properly curated to reach key decision makers at…
Kenglin Lai Assessment of student learning is essential to improving learning outcomes. While implementing assessments and getting results are the necessary first steps on the journey to improvement, turning those results into real actionable steps is what will actually impact children and their learning. On behalf of the World Bank’s Mongolia education team, on July…
Every once in a while we go in for a medical checkup, and the doctor runs tests to monitor our health. Based on the results, the physician can prescribe necessary medicine, evaluate the effectiveness of treatment, identify risk factors, and suggest preventive measures to improve our health. Now, consider what would happen if the results…
October 2-4 2019 experts of the Center for International Cooperation in Education Development (CICED) took part in a study tour: “Learning assessments: How to use data for policy making purposes?” that was organized in frames of READ program and with support from READ Trust Fund and READ RAS. The event was held at the headquarters of OECD (Organization for…
Section program Download materials Watch video View all photoes The CICED session took place within the framework of the EAOKO VII Annual International Conference “Assessment of the quality of education at different levels”, which was held in Dushanbe in October 2018. The speakers of the session are the leading Russian experts, specialists from the Moscow…
Conference program Download materials Watch video View all photoes On September 22-23, 2017 in Pushkin took place an international conference of the Center for International Cooperation for Education Development (CICED) and the Eurasian Association of Education Quality Assessment (EAOKO) “Monitoring, rankings, ranking as a tool for managing the quality of education.” The conference was supported…
Conference program Download materials Watch video View all photos In September 2016 CICED participated in organization and carrying out the 5th Eurasian Association of Education Quality Assessment annual international conference “Management of the education quality on the basis of assessment” Conference was conducted with support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Kyrgyz Republic and…
Download materials Watch video View all photos Date: 10-11 February, 2016. Place: Yerevan, Armenia Background Multi-country research on student reasoning skills with Student Achievements Monitoring tool (SAM) is planned in frame of extended READ RAS program. As one of the main parts of the preparatory works for the research the team of local and Russian experts…