All READ Trust Fund Resources

Flagship Products

• Primer on Large Scale Assessment
• Maps of Country Participation in Regional and International Large-Scale Assessments- LLECE, PASEC, PILNA, PIRLS, PISA, SACMEQ, SEA-PLM, TIMSS
• Public Examinations Examined
• National Assessments of Educational Achievement Series: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5
• Systems Approach for Better Education Results- Student Assessment (SABER- SA): Diagnostic Tools and Reports
• eLearning Course on Student Assessment for Policymakers and Practitioners - Available in English, French, Russian, Spanish

Guidance Notes

• Guidance Note on Using Learning Assessment in the Process of School Reopening, 2020
• What Matters Most for Student Assessment Systems: A Framework Paper, April 2012
  by Marguerite Clarke. Also available in French, Portuguese and Russian

Case Studies

• The Development of the Student Assessment System in the Republic of Armenia: Achievements, Challenges, and Lessons Learned, July 2015
  by G. Bethell and Karine Harutyunyan
• Disseminating and Using Student Assessment Information in Jordan, December 2014
  by O. Obeidat and Zaina Dawani. Also available in Russian
• Disseminating and Using Student Assessment Information in The Gambia, March 2014
  by O. Senghor. Also available in Russian
• Developing the Enabling Context for Student Assessment in Uganda, January 2013
  by Anil Kanjee and Sylvia Acana. Also available in Russian
• Developing the Enabling Context for Student Assessment in Russia, June 2013
  by V. Bolotov, G. Kovaleva, M. Pinskaya, I.Valdman. Also available in Russian
• Disseminating and Using Student Assessment Information in Russia, Junuary 2013
  by Y. Tyumeneva. Also available in Russian
• Developing the Enabling Context for School-Based Assessment in Queensland, Australia, December 2012
  by Reg Allen. Also available in Russian
• Developing the Enabling Context for Student Assessment in Brazil, December 2012
  by Maria Helena Guimaraes de Castro. Also available in Russian
• Disseminating and Using Student Assessment Information in Chile, April 2012
• by Maria-Jose Ramirez. Also available in Russian
• Developing the Enabling Context for Student Assessment in Chile, January 2012
  by Maria-Jose Ramirez. Also available in Russian
• The Development of the Student Assessment System in New Zealand, January 2012
  by Lester Flockton. Also available in Russian

Blogs

• Assessing outside of the “classroom box” while schools are closed: The potential of phone-based formative assessments to support learning continuity, May 2021
• How to Assess Students’ Learning? A New World Bank Primer on Large-Scale Assessments Helps to Answer this Question, April 2021
• Learning in the time of COVID-19: the role of learning assessment in reopening schools, November, 2020
• Examinations and high stakes decision making in the era of COVID-19, July 2020
• Moving high-stakes exams online: Five points to consider, July 2020
• Are students still learning during COVID-19? Formative assessment can provide the answer, April 2020
• High-stakes school exams during COVID-19: What is the best approach? April 2020
• How to use standardized assessment results to improve learning in Mongolia? Key takeaways from the Guatemala workshop on student learning assessment, September 2019
• Helping countries increase the value of national learning assessments, July 2019
• PISA for development – a milestone on the road to better learning outcomes, March 2019
• Student assessment: Supporting the development of human capital, November 2018
• Join now! Everything you ever wanted to know about student assessments, June 2017
• The latest PISA results: Seven key takeaways, December 2016
• Nine takeaways from the 2015 Trends in International Math and Science Study Results, July 2016
• Finding a reasonable target for math and reading test scores, June 2016
• Are Zambia's Children Learning? May 2014
• Education: Measuring for Success in Today's World, May 2014

READ Newsletter Articles

• The Opportunities and Challenges of Measuring Learning through the Lifecycle, March 2020
• Can we still implement national learning assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic? Experiences from Mexico during the H1N1 outbreak, March 2020
• How can technology support teachers in designing and analysing results from assessments for learning? December 2018

International Perspectives by Marguerite Clarke

• A conversation with assessment expert and author Vincent Greaney on the newly-released Public Examinations Examined book, December 2019
• How can students with special needs be included in high-stakes examinations? September 2019
• How to help countries increase the information value of their national learning assessments June 2019
• How countries use their international large-scale assessment results: The Example of Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), March 2019
• Expert Interview with Marguerite Clarke, March 2019
• Why PISA for Development is so important, December 2018
• Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 Monitoring, September 2018

Videos

• Student Assessment Matters in Education, March 2018
• When Children Learn, Nations Prosper, March 2011

Other

This section contains publications and other materials which (or part of which) were published with READ TF support and/or based on the research done within READ TF.

• Assessment Types and Their Key Differences, June 2020
  Also availalbe in Russian | Spanish | Portuguese
• Review of World Bank Support for Student Assessment Activities in Client Countries, 1998-2009
  by Julia Liberman and Marguerite Clarke
  Two-pager | Full report
• The Experience of Middle-income Countries Participating in PISA 2000-2015, 2015
  Joint WB-OECD Publication
• Why Do Countries Participate in International Large-Scale Assessments? The Case of PISA, 2015
  by M. Lockheed, Washington, D.C., World Bank
• What Has Happened With Learning Assessment Systems in Latin America? Lessons from the Last Decade of Experience, 2015
  by G. Ferrer and Ariel Fiszbein, The Dialogue: Commission for Quality Education, Washington, D.C. Also available in Spanish
• Strengthening Education Quality in East Asia: System Assessment and Benchmarking for Education Results (SABER), 2012
  Washington D.C., World Bank
• Measuring Learning: How Effective Student Assessment Systems Can Help Achieve Learning For All, 2012
  Education Notes, Washington, D.C., World Bank