Should Your Next-Door Neighbor Assess Your Daughter’s Reading Skills? Alejandro Ganimian ˙ Dec 10, 2015 ˙ PREAL Blog Chris Yarzab / CC BY-NC 2.0 How can citizen-led assessments of student performance in developing countries build demand for quality education?Read more +
PISA and the state of education in Latin America Ariel Fiszbein ˙ Jan 8, 2014 ˙ PREAL Blog How can we interpret the 2012 PISA results and what do they tell us about the challenges of education policy in our countries?Read more +
2012 PISA Results: LAC continues to lag ˙ Dec 4, 2013 ˙ PREAL Blog Pisa test document / Theo Müller / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.5 Key takeaways for the eight Latin American countries that participated in the 2012 PISA.Read more +
Study Compares Test Scores Internationally ˙ Nov 7, 2013 ˙ PREAL Blog El Heraldo An analysis of student examinations worldwide shows some countries' efforts to improve quality go unnoticed due to low scores. Read more +
World Bank Event on Student Evaluations ˙ Nov 6, 2013 ˙ PREAL Blog udual.wordpres.com Webcast on the importance of and challenges to monitoring student learning, and research on how to best carry out assessments.Read more +
Schooling is Not Learning ˙ Jun 5, 2013 ˙ PREAL Blog Correo del Orinoco A report on measuring learning outcomes discusses the importance of assessment efforts.Read more +
The Hard Evidence on Soft Skills ˙ Jan 25, 2012 ˙ PREAL Blog Heckman website Psychologists and economists reach consensus on defining the most important soft skills associated with success.Read more +
Teacher Evaluations Based on Student Performance ˙ Sep 22, 2011 ˙ PREAL Blog Image from the Wall Street Journal article Wall Street Journal article discusses new teacher evaluation methods and how the results will be used for incentives.Read more +
Measuring Up? ˙ Aug 4, 2011 ˙ PREAL Blog PREAL publication analyzes how Latin American and Caribbean countries performed on PISA tests. Read more +