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    ACTRC holds curriculum review workshop

    ACTRC conducted a workshop to review the Department of Education Basic Education Curriculum. This activity was held from February 18-22, 2019 at the University Hotel, University of the Philippines Diliman. Participants for this activity included curriculum experts from the DepEd Bureau of Curriculum Development, and DepEd and UP Integrated School school heads and teachers.

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    ACTRC holds Advisory Board meeting

    ACTRC held its Advisory Board meeting on 21 February 2019 at the Marco Polo Hotel in Ortigas. Members of the board included representatives from the Philippines Department of Education, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Australian Government, University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (CIDS), Basic Education Sector Transformation (BEST), and…

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    ACTRC Holds Conference on Learning Progressions and Formative Assessment

    The Assessment, Curriculum and Technology Research Centre held a regional conference on October 22, 2018 at the University of the Philippines Cebu, Cebu City.  This was attended by elementary and secondary school teachers of math and science, school heads, and officials from division and regional offices of the Department of Education, as well as representatives…

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    ACTRC at the 10th International Conference on Teacher Education

    A team from the Assessment, Curriculum and Technology Research Centre delivered a plenary panel during the 10th International Conference on Teacher Education (ICTED) held on August 23-25, 2018 at the Seda Vertis North, Quezon City, Philippines.

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    ACTRC represented at NEQMAP Annual General Meeting

    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…

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    Professional development workshops held to support teachers to implement formative assessment in their classrooms

    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…

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    ACTRC holds its fourth Advisory Board meeting

    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…

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    ACTRC Researcher Presents at the Department of Education’s MTB-MLE Conference

    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,…

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    ACTRC Newsletter – ACTRC as Verification Agent for World Bank LEAPS Project

    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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    MTB-MLE Research Team Presents at International Symposium on Bilingualism

    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.  The team’s first presentation, Determining How Mother Tongue-Based…

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