Professor Esther Care attended the Annual General Meeting of the Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP), with many friends of ACTRC, including Gretchen Cordero of the Bureau of Educational Assessment, Philippines Department of Education, and Ethel Valenzuela of SEAMEO (pictured together to the left, front row). NEQMAP has become a model for the establishment of other education
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Louie Cagasan and Pam Robertson have been working with the Philippines Department of Education (DepEd) to develop professional development modules to support teachers to improve their use of formative assessment in the classroom. This work builds on the evidence base from previous studies which showed that classroom assessment in the Philippines is transforming to include greater recognition of student progress
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ACTRC’s fourth Advisory Board meeting was held on 13 October 2017. Members of the ACTRC Advisory Board include representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Australian Government, the Basic Education Sector Transformation, the Philippines Department of Education, the University of the Philippines, the University of Melbourne and stakeholder organisations SEAMEO, UNICEF and the Research Center for Teacher
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ACTRC Research Officer, Lea Angela Pradilla, delivered a plenary presentation at the Department of Education’s First National MTB-MLE Conference in Mariveles, Bataan, on 2-4 August, 2017. The conference was attended by over 400 Department of Education (DepEd) directors, supervisors, school administrators and teachers from across the country. The presentation, ‘Investigating MTB-MLE in the Philippines: Realities, Implications and Points Forward,’ discussed
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ACTRC has published the ninth issue of its newsletter. The issue describes ACTRC’s role as verification agent for the World Bank LEAPS project, which supports the teaching and learning of students in disadvantaged regions. Read the newsletter and subscribe for future editions.
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Dr Romylyn Metila and Ms Lea Angela Pradilla of ACTRC’s MTB-MLE research team presented two papers at the 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11) at the University of Limerick in Ireland on 11-15 June, 2017. The biannual symposium attracted more than 300 participants from around the world.
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ACTRC has published the eighth edition of its newsletter. This issue outlines the approach of ACTRC to the use of educational assessment to improve learning outcomes. Read the newsletter and subscribe for future editions.
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