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ACER and UNESCO collaborate in Arab states ACER and UNESCO Beirut office have signed a memorandum of understanding that creates opportunities for joint research and the development of a learning assessment to monitor educational quality in the Arab States. The memorandum was signed by Peter McGuckian, ACER Director of International Development, and Abdel Moneim Osman, Director UNESCO Beirut, at UNESCO’s Beirut office in Lebanon on 3 November 2010. The signing of the memorandum heralds joint endeavours to perform educational research in the Arab States, particularly related to UNESCO’s Education for All program, to support educational policy development in the region and to organise and participate in jointly sponsored conferences, seminars and workshops. Under the initiative, ACER and UNESCO Beirut will collaborate to develop a common regional learning assessment framework to be used as a benchmark for measuring educational quality in the Arab States. Together ACER and UNESCO Beirut will assist in the development of educational assessment and evaluation programs for the Arab States and will facilitate training workshops to build national capacity for the programs’ implementation. The framework will outline the context and define terms for a common regional educational improvement initiative, will propose a management structure, identify appropriate measures, and will develop a model for calculating these measures and interpreting results. ACER Deputy Research Director of International Surveys Dr John Cresswell is leading the development of the framework, following his preparation of a background note on the Arab States performance in learning assessment and the main challenges for enhancing evidence-based knowledge for policy makers to improve education quality. In a presentation to the expert group overseeing the initiative, held in Beirut in December, Cresswell described some of the ways that various countries are using international and national assessments and offered a number of different options for the regional initiative. A draft framework for the initiative is expected on 31 March 2011, after which time it will be subject to review before being finalised in July and presented to the meeting of the Ministers of Education of the Arab states at the UNESCO General Conference side meetings in October 2011. « Back to eNews
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ACER and UNESCO Beirut office have signed a memorandum of understanding that creates opportunities for joint research and the development of a learning assessment to monitor educational quality in the Arab States.

The memorandum was signed by Peter McGuckian, ACER Director of International Development, and Abdel Moneim Osman, Director UNESCO Beirut, at UNESCO’s Beirut office in Lebanon on 3 November 2010.

The signing of the memorandum heralds joint endeavours to perform educational research in the Arab States, particularly related to UNESCO’s Education for All program, to support educational policy development in the region and to organise and participate in jointly sponsored conferences, seminars and workshops.

Under the initiative, ACER and UNESCO Beirut will collaborate to develop a common regional learning assessment framework to be used as a benchmark for measuring educational quality in the Arab States.

Together ACER and UNESCO Beirut will assist in the development of educational assessment and evaluation programs for the Arab States and will facilitate training workshops to build national capacity for the programs’ implementation.

The framework will outline the context and define terms for a common regional educational improvement initiative, will propose a management structure, identify appropriate measures, and will develop a model for calculating these measures and interpreting results.

ACER Deputy Research Director of International Surveys Dr John Cresswell is leading the development of the framework, following his preparation of a background note on the Arab States performance in learning assessment and the main challenges for enhancing evidence-based knowledge for policy makers to improve education quality.

In a presentation to the expert group overseeing the initiative, held in Beirut in December, Cresswell described some of the ways that various countries are using international and national assessments and offered a number of different options for the regional initiative.

A draft framework for the initiative is expected on 31 March 2011, after which time it will be subject to review before being finalised in July and presented to the meeting of the Ministers of Education of the Arab states at the UNESCO General Conference side meetings in October 2011.

ACER and UNESCO collaborate in Arab states