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    ACTRC Researcher in a seminar-lecture on Multilingualism and Education for All

    A seminar-lecture titled Multilingualism and Education for All (EFA): A Look into the Global and Local Contexts was held on December 6, 2014 at the Benitez Training Center at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. This event was organized by the Reading, Teaching in the Early Grades, Arts, and Language Education (REGALE) Cluster of the College of…

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    ACTRC Researchers Speak at International Conference-Workshop

    ACTRC researchers, Dr Alan Williams, Dr Romylyn Metila, and Lea Pradilla gave presentations on their work at the recent International Conference-Workshop, Language Culture, Multiculturalism, Multilingual Education and K+12 Curriculum, held at the Main Theater, UP Diliman, from 20 to 22 November, 2014.  The conference was a significant event attended by over 1700 academics and teachers…

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    LearnARMM : Educator feedback sessions

    On 3-4 November, ACTRC researchers met with teachers and education personnel in Lanao del Sur and Maguindanao to provide feedback on the testing of 4,265 Kinder and Grade 1 students. The researchers outlined the developmental framework that underpins the Centre’s approach to assessment, explaining how the LearnARMM tests of literacy and numeracy were constructed and…

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    ACTRC at ICSME

    ACTRC researchers presented five papers at the International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education held at the National Institute of Science and Mathematics Education Development, UP Diliman, 28-30 October 2014. Centre Director Dr Esther Care presented a plenary paper, ‘Perspectives on Assessment,’ in which she focused on a “spirit of inquiry”. She showed how consideration…

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    21st Century Skills in the Philippines

    ACTRC has commenced work focusing on 21st century skills in the Philippines. The Centre will be working in partnership with the Philippine Department of Education through its National Educational Testing and Research Center (NETRC) to investigate the place of these skills and their implementation in the Philippines’ curriculum. To read more about this work please see the…

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    ACTRC Director presents keynote address at the ICEME 2014

    Dr Esther Care, Acting Director of the Assessment Research Centre, University of Melbourne, and Director of the Assessment, Curriculum and Technology Research Centre, University of the Philippines, has presented the opening keynote address at the International Conference on Educational Measurement and Evaluation 2014 in Manila. Dr Care spoke of a global shift from routine occupations, both…

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    ACTRC Researchers Respond to Inquirer Article on MTB-MLE

    In a letter published by the Inquirer on 8 September 2014, ACTRC researchers Alan Williams, Romylyn Metila and Lea Pradilla  have responded to an article published by the Inquirer on 20 August 2014. The article reported on Phase 1 of the ACTRC research project “Understanding Best Practices in MTB-MLE in the Philippines” in a way…

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    LearnARMM Update

    Now at the end of August, the LearnARMM fieldwork team, and test administrators and monitors in Mindanao, have completed the huge task of administering one to one literacy and mathematics assessments to over 4000 young Kinder and Grade 1 students. Reaching our research targets has been testimony to the perseverance and commitment of all concerned,…

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    Study Assesses Delivery of Science Inquiry Skills in K to 12 Curriculum

    Researchers at the Assessment, Curriculum and Technology Research Centre have conducted a scoping study into the teaching of science inquiry skills under the Philippines’ new K to 12 Curriculum. The new curriculum emphasises the learning of inquiry skills – the methods of scientific investigation – in addition to the acquisition of content or scientific knowledge.…

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  • The MTB-MLE Team at the First International Conference on Language, Culture and Communication

    The MTB-MLE Team presented a paper entitled Philippine MTB-MLE: A Close Look at Policy-in-Context at the First International Conference on Language, Culture and Communication held at DLSU Dasmarinas last July 10-12, 2014. The paper included some of the initial findings in the Phase 1 of the research project Understanding Best Practices in MTB-MLE in the…

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