Student Assessment

Abstract

National governments and international agencies recognize the key role of student assessment in building an effective education system. The assessments provide information on whether all students in an education system are learning, and how well. Without good assessment information, it is impossible to know whether a system's policies and practices are working or how they might be changed.SABER-Student Assessment documents and analyzes the quality of student assessment systems to help countries generate and use better assessment data. The goal is to expand the scope and quality of learning for all. More than 30 countries at different levels of development have applied SABER-Student Assessment to evaluate the quality of their assessment systems and enact reforms to strengthen them. Many low- and middle-income countries have a strong commitment to improving their assessment activities, but they will need sustained support and commitment from the international community to ensure that the changes take hold. Evidence-based tools such as SABER-Student Assessment can help countries generate and use better assessment data to expand the scope of learning for all students.