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Unlocking the middle tier: Learning through dialogue

by Kris Stutchbury, Jennifer Agbaire, John Phiri and Kalaluka Kalaluka | Sep 10, 2025 | Assessment, Learning

The middle tier describes groups of professionals at county, zone, district or provincial level whose role is to monitor and support schools. They are the people who often become master trainers or are tasked with supporting the implementation of a new curriculum or new initiative. Read More

Caring about consequences: Considerations for designing large-scale assessments to monitor foundational learning

by Ketan, Melissa Goodnight and Stephen Sireci | Sep 8, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Assessment

Assessing younger learners poses unique technical challenges, particularly in reading across diverse languages. At the same time, large-scale assessments, whether international or national, vary widely in standards, definitions and procedures, reflecting different priorities and limiting the global comparability of their data. Read More

Addressing the neglected area of language(s) in assessment and evaluation

by Rhona Brown, Lina Adinolfi, Maen Al Awes, Lizzi O. Milligan, Alicia Mills, Samantha Ross and John Simpson | Jul 16, 2024 | Assessment

The language(s) used in assessments and evaluations are central to these questions and to crucial wider issues of equity and social justice. Just as in Languages of Instruction (LoI), dominant languages are used in evaluation and assessment, but these are often not familiar languages to the participants. Read More

Who matters in Measuring What Matters – Notes on a creative session at the UKFIET 2023 conference

by Fergal Turner, Emily Tusiime, Devotha Mlay and Maurits Spoelder | Dec 20, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Assessment

We wanted to take the subject of learning assessment, a serious and complex topic at the heart of many of the conferences discussions, and address it with a sense of fun and unstructured creativity. Read More

Assessment: the forgotten component in large scale teacher professional development?

by Lina Adinolfi, Freda Wolfenden and Saraswati Dawadi | Nov 10, 2023 | Assessment, Teachers

Much attention has been given to the assessment of learning at school and university. Reflecting this increased focus on this area, Teacher Professional Development (TPD) programmes include considerable support to teachers to improve how they use assessment , but how much thought is given to the design and evaluation of… Read More

Towards equity in assessment: Making standardised learning assessment more accessible for learners with disabilities

by Michelle L. Oetman | Aug 4, 2023 | Assessment, Education and Disabilities

A groundbreaking technical brief titled “Towards Equity in Assessment: Making Standardized Learning Assessments more accessible for Learners with Disabilities has been released. Read More

Simple, Timely Learning Assessments Are Essential to Driving Instruction That Leads to Improvements in Learning Outcomes

by Inyang Umoren | Feb 1, 2023 | Assessment, Learning

Measuring learning outcomes is essential to gauge where learners fall behind, inform decisions on interventions needed to support struggling learners to catch up, and track their progress. Read More

Reconceptualising ‘rigour’ and rebalancing power dynamics in assessment – PODCAST

by Fergal Turner | Jan 31, 2022 | 2021 UKFIET Conference, Assessment

Following on from last year’s UKFIET Symposium, the Schools2030 team came back together to reflect on what they had learned for this podcast, hosted by Schools2030’s Global...

Rebalancing power dynamics and reconceptualising ‘rigour’ in measuring learning – Schools2030 at UKFIET 2021

by Schools2030 | Oct 22, 2021 | 2021 UKFIET Conference, Assessment

This article was written by the Schools2030 team based on their session at the recent September 2021 UKFIET Conference. It was published originally on the Schools2030 website on...

Expanding understanding of the use of Large-Scale Assessments for educational improvement

by Israel Moreno Salto and Ricardo Sabates | Jun 10, 2021 | Assessment, Learning

This blog was written by Dr Israel Moreno Salto from the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico and Professor Ricardo Sabates from the Faculty of Education, University...

Ethiopia Builds its First National Assessment of Pre-primary Education

by Belay Hagos Hailu and Fitsum Mulugeta | Apr 14, 2021 | Assessment, Early Childhood, Learning

This article was written by Dr. Belay Hagos, Associate Professor of Education, Director, Institute of Educational Research, Addis Ababa University and Fitsum Mulugeta, Education...

Introducing ALIGNS: Aligning Levels of Instruction with Goals and the Needs of Students

by Jason Silberstein, Michelle Kaffenberger and Yue-Yi Hwa | Jan 7, 2021 | Assessment, Learning

This blog was written by Jason Silberstein, Yue-Yi Hwa and Michelle Kaffenberger. It was published on the RISE website on 5 November 2020. What makes the difference between...