After a few years of skipping due to reforming of education and then Coronavirus pandemic, the Kyrgyz republic is coming back to participation in one of the largest monitoring research of education quality in the world PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment). Country will participate in 2025 PISA after absence since 2009. The results of…
Overview and methodology Since 2016, the Center for International Cooperation in Education Development (CICED) has been implementing the research project called International Research of Students’ Achievements (IRSA Project). The core objective of the project was defined as “to conduct cross-country research aimed at determining factors related to educational achievements in math among primary school students”.…
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…
Monitored the training and coaching processes of the teacher professional development models (CLASS and Coaching) with international technical assistance from the University of Virginia
Conducted trainings on the Classroom Organization domain of classroom practice for selected teachers, mentor and Deputy Directors of 14 schools
Provided practical support to 14 pilot schools’ 14 mentors and 28 teachers on tracking the Emotional Support domain of classroom practice (including cycle tracking forms and video segments of the classroom practice)
Supported development of the Concept Paper on the National Assessment for general education, and presented a new scoring scale of learning achievements
Conducted the third round of trainings for 40 test developers and National Testing Center (NTC) staff on the basics of item writing for multiple-choice questions for all grade 11 subjects, with a focus on the evaluation of test items developed and quality assurance steps
Discussed the draft secondary analysis of the NSBA 2017 with a group of key experts
Trained four Kyrgyz psychometricians at Cito on the technical aspects of secondary analysis of the 2017 National Sample Based Assessment (NSBA) results, including on Item Response Theory (IRT) modeling and on designing sample based national assessments
Conducted the first round of seminars for 40 test developers in three subject sub-groups on Matura exams and on different formats of items and tasks designed to measure competencies
Conducted a workshop for a group of 25 experts from Kyrgyz Academy of Education, Ministry of Education and Science, National Testing Center and Republic In-service Teacher Training Institution focusing on the current situation, the challenges of using educational assessment in decision making, and the roadmap for reaching education system goals Conducted a workshop for a…
Completed contracting of international technical assistance provider (University of Virginia) to prepare the training program on classroom assessment and the plan for the launch of the training
Supported training by an international consultant of the National Testing Center (NTC) staff in preparation to revise the School Leaving Test
Developed implementation plan with Cito (Dutch Agency for Education Assessment) for the training of targeted key stakeholders in the use of assessment data for decision-making, analysis of national assessment data, and formulation of interventions for improved learning outcomes
Development of new national assessment strategy for the Kyrgyz Republic.
Development of a manual with guidelines for teachers on classroom assessment was developed in 2014.
Development of a training program on classroom assessment teachers and primary teachers
Training for 15 NTC staff and 30 subject experts on test theory, statistical analysis, item development, and test administration
Pilot of NLSA assessment followed up by developing recommendations and results dissemination
Study visit to the Central Institute for Test Development in the Netherlands
Conducting of in-depth secondary analysis of the Kyrgyz Republic’s results from PISA 2006 and 2009 as well as its 2007 and 2009
Analysis of the two institutions formally charged with the responsibility of carrying out assessment activities – the National Testing Center (NTC) and KAE’s Education Assessment Unit.