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This resource highlights the potential of AI in education to accelerate the progress and to create inclusive knowledge societies.

The toolkit provides early childhood teachers and school leaders with a set of practical and low-cost instruments that they can use to reflect on their own gender biases.

Comparative overview of various TaRL Application in India and Africa

Comparative overview of various TaRL Application in India and Africa

Through this implementation guide, you will get a jist of all the different aspects of a TaRL programme

Active learning @Home grade R-9 daily guides provide parents and caregivers with easy-to-do language and maths CAPS-based activities to support their children's learning at home.

Adding inputs into a classroom to support business-as-usual modes of schooling without changing anything else has not been effective at increasing learning outcomes.

All Children Learning Assessment Platform provides guidance for government experts, education in emergency (EIE) contexts, NGOs, and teachers on supporting and conducting assessments.

The number of children along with youth and adults are facing a major setback in attending the schools because of Covid-19 uncertainty.

This paper examines strategies for addressing the needs of refugee, migrant and internally displaced children in the Asia-Pacific region.

Toolkit to assess basic reading (English) and numeracy skills in children in the community/village on your own.

This case study examines Afghanistan's National Assessment Framework for Afghanistan in 2018, the first pillar of which is classroom-based formative assessment.

This resource is a self-administered tool that allows teachers to evaluate their feelings of self-efficacy, work-related stress, and self-care

Review of key aspects about formative assessment relevant to literacy development, includes guidance and information for implementation.

Guide describes how policy makers, donors, and implementing partners can design or refine assessments in the education system and connect those results to daily instruction.

Resource is intended to facilitate guided discussions and learning by parents, caregivers, and others.

This publication documents an action research initiative begun in 2007 which, over the past decade, has demonstrated the effectiveness of multilingual education on learning outcomes for children.

A resource for developing country partners to build effective and sustainable learning assessment systems: includes a manual and associate resources.

In this module, you can read informative materials on buidling mentoring and review capacities of diverse actors.

This resource provides tips and guidance for parents and caregivers to foster reading comprehension skills at home.

Investing in early childhood education has proven benefits, yet even before COVID-19, at least 175 million children were missing out on pre-primary education.

This paper examines the impact on and effectiveness for learning of remote learning using data from MICS6 and the UNESCO-UNICEF-World Bank's National Education survey.

This paper highlights trends, gaps, and emerging promising practices from the countries' remote learning responses implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A review of the WB-supported Teacher Education Improvement Project for Grade 1-4 Class Teachers in the West Bank and Gaza and has important implications for other developing countries.

This ICT in EiCC checklist guides users in making appropriate decisions about the use of technology to support educational interventions in a conflict-sensitive (CS) manner.

Initiative targeted mothers of children aged five to eight years old with the goal of helping them better support their children’s learning in primary school.

This guide is designed to help teachers develop their pedagogical skills in a step-by-step, supportive manner.

The World Bank’s Coach initiative aims to accelerate student learning by improving in-service teacher professional development (TPD)

When community programmes have been effective, they often improved both learning and participation; when they were not effective, they usually improved neither.

This document focuses on the assessment of children’s holistic learning and development (CHILD).

This report aims to deepen the distinction between formative and summative assessment, to demonstrate their complementarities, and to plumb their technical dimensions to promote its improved use.

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In this module, you will learn how TaRL programs can be designed and implemented through engaging resources.

This brief describes the state of the evidence, contextual and equity considerations when designing programs for girls, and suggestions for applying the information in practice.

This brief summarizes research findings and provides actionable recommendations for how to equitably scale up digital learning.

This global toolkit supports the inclusion and strengthening of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in the context of Education Sector Planning (ESP) processes and other analysis and planning efforts.

Guidance around appropriate policies and strategies for teaching and learning of early language and literacy and multilingual education in the varied language contexts in South Asian countries.

Early childhood education can be delivered through public preschools and kindergartens, encouraged by supporting parents to engage with their child’s education, or both.

Evidence shows that encouraging caregivers to play and interact with children improves cognitive development.

This report identifies critical areas for education decision-makers to consider when investing in EdTech for learning.

Bringing pre-primary education to scale: This Think Piece on pre-primary education, while acknowledging the need to increase access for children in vulnerable situations.

This Think Piece will detail the extent of parents’ and caregivers’ influence on learning and review evidence for concrete, feasible parent support by age group.

Evidence of programs that leverage education technology closely follow existing lessons about increasing learning outcomes from non-technology interventions.

This think piece puts forward three main arguments to improve teacher development goals, training and remedial education.

Technology-based innovations to improve early grade reading outcomes, with a focus on family and community engagement. Case studies implemented in Zambia, Mali, Mexico, and India.

Never has the saying “Home is the first school, and parents are children’s first teachers” been truer.

This Guidance Note aims to stimulate thinking into the unique challenges facing children from marginalized ethnolinguistic communities

This review provides a summary of existing research on pre-primary and highlights factors associated with high-quality programming in low- and middle-income countries and resource-limited contexts.

This toolkit provides program designers with information on how to develop and implement effective early childhood interactive audio instruction (IAI) programs in a range of settings.

This introductory webinar builds on the recent launch of the FLN Hub and aims to give an overview of the background and purpose of the FLN Hub, and orient participants to the contents of the Hub.

The FLN Hub: New Tools and Resources for Advancing Foundational Literacy and Numeracy

This blog summarizes the data around the reading learning gaps globally, and proposes solutions to help address the disparities.

Tool/Checklist for program coordinators to analyze current learning situation and to determine focus areas.

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This learning guide for teachers provides guidance on using assessment for learning across a variety of contexts, including in-person, hybrid, and distance learning, both online and offline.

Go to the Formative Assessments focus area to access resources on how to administer and develop assessments tools for TaRL instruction.

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This paper explores the ways countries in the Asia-Pacific region have ventured towards gauging learners progress in emergency situations.

This document provides inputs when preparing guidelines and procedures to support teachers and other responsible for conducting formative assessments

This case study examines Ethiopia's formative assessment initiative called Assessment for Learning (AfL).

Findings from a baseline learning assessment of accelerated learning centres (ALCs) in Afghanistan show that children attending ALCs are learning at similar levels or better than in government schools

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The Save Our Future report provides a set of recommendations to tackle the learning crisis by reorienting curriculum and targeting instruction to the level of the child.

This report identifies different forms of exclusion in foundational reading, how they are caused and what we can do about them.

GPG covers 5 principles: Making Teaching Attractive, Improving Pre-Service Education, Manage Teachers Better, Provide High-Quality Professional Development and School Leadership, Use Technology Wisely

This guide provides education actors with information about the effectiveness, implementation principles, and contextual considerations related to computer-assisted learning programs.

This guide provides education actors with information about the effectiveness, implementation principles, and contextual considerations related to computer-assisted learning programs.

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This guide provides education actors with information about the effectiveness, implementation principles, and contextual considerations related to parental engagement programs.

This resource provides a framework and guidelines for developing programmes for improving early learning outcomes in language and mathematics.

Provides information, guidance and resources to understand and address language issues in primary grade literacy programs

This tool measures early grade learners' literacy, numeracy, and social and emotional skills. It is based on the Syrian curriculum for grades 2-3.

Dashboard showing whether children are getting adequate access to primary, analyzes progression, and the transition progress from primary to secondary education

This detailed technical note discusses the ASER reading assessments.

It will cost US $1.4 trillion to achieve universal access to digital learning worldwide. How much will it cost to deliver universal digital learning in your country?

The number of children along with youth and adults are facing a major setback in attending the schools because of Covid-19 uncertainty.

The number of children along with youth and adults are facing a major setback in attending the schools because of Covid-19 uncertainty.

This module explores the importance of foundational numeracy skills and introduces the tasks in the numeracy assessment tool.

This module explores the importance of foundational reading skills and introduces the tasks in the foundational reading assessment tool.

This module, provides an introduction to how the process of mentoring and review takes place in TaRL programme and who are the important actors to facilitate this process.

This module will discuss the rationale, principles, components of the TaRL approach.

This module provides an overview of formative assessments and their importance in improving children’s FLN skills.

This module explains some concrete steps to make the child comfortable during the foundational reading assessment.

This module explains some concrete steps to make the child comfortable during the numeracy assessment.

In this module, you will learn how mentoring visits are planned and conducted.

This module introduces you to several fun and engaging activities aimed at improving children's reading skills.

This module explains how the TaRL approach is delivered in the classroom.

This module discusses the process of conducting numeracy assessments using real case studies. Resources in this module can help in identifying learners' numeracy skills.

This module discusses the process of conducting foundational reading assessments using real case studies.

This module explores how assessment data can help mentors to make effective decisions with regards to providing mentoring support at diverse levels of the education system.

This module examines strategies to build and strengthen children’s foundational literacy and numeracy skills after prolonged school closures.

This module introduces you to several fun and engaging activities aimed at improving children's numeracy skills.

This module invites participants to think about how to improve their work on language of instruction (LOI).

In this module, you can read informative materials on buidling mentoring and review capacities of diverse actors.

In this module, you will learn how to summarize and understand the reading assessment results for each child and the class as a whole. These results can then serve as a basis for instruction.

In this module, you will learn how to summarize and understand the numeracy assessment results for each child and the class as a whole. These results can then serve as a basis for instruction.

This module explains guidelines for item development and how to adapt tools for different contexts.

This module explains guidelines for item development and how to adapt tools for different contexts.

This module provides an overview of the Teaching the Right Level (TaRL) approach, including detailed explanations of TaRL's principles, rationale and methodology.

This module introduces a proposed approach to strengthening implementation of FLN programmes. This module introduces a proposed approach to strengthening implementation of FLN programmes.

Provides cultural and educational evidence on why ECCE and initial literacy should be provided in a child's mother tongue.

Experimental and non-experimental evidence from a variety of contexts indicates instruction in a child’s L1 (mother tongue) has a positive effect on learning.

Case study underscores the importance of test translation and adaptation in multiple languages (including mother tongue).

The project aimed to identify whether children who learn through the medium of a language which is not the same as their home languages have different levels of learning outcomes.

This case study looks at a linguistic revitalization programme in Bolivia, which supports parents, caregivers and community leaders to guide their youngest children in learning their native language.

This case study looks at a linguistic revitalization programme in Bolivia.

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This research brief focuses on the potential parental role in learning and its association with foundational literacy and numeracy skills.

This case study looks at Nigeria's UNICEF-supported volunteer-led in-person community learning hubs

This guide provides a roadmap for policy makers, program designers, and implementers to navigate the complexities of language of instruction options

This case study examines the alternative learning opportunities for young children provided by UNICEF and the Government of Lao PDR.

Programs that make education-related information available to parents or students have increased learning outcomes at low cost.

Take a short quiz on the foundational numeracy assessment tool and how to administer it!

Take a short quiz on the foundational reading assessment tool and how to administer it!

Take a short quiz on the TaRL approach and test your knowledge about how it is delivered in the classroom.

This training package aims to address the immediate emerging needs for health and safety measures, learning loss, and meantal health/well-being in schools and classrooms

Three alternative learning pathways for out-of-school children and adolescents use formative assessments and learning data to expand quality learning opportunities for disadvantaged learners.

Reducing the travel time of attending school can increase both school participation and learning outcomes.

Knoweldge pack aims to serve as a resource for Ministries of Education to use remote learning to respond to COVID-19 based school closures.

This paper explores the changing landscape of education from traditional to remote to new hybrid learning approaches valuable in the return-to-school plan and beyond.

These reports present global evidence on remote learning responses during the COVID-19 pandemic to support decision-makers in creating more effective, sustainable, and resilient education systems.

This article highlights and advises on the issues that relate to adapting and updating previously developed interactive audio instruction (IAI) programs.

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UNICEF's Assessment for Learning currently used in Ethiopia aims to improve teachers' knowledge of continuous active assessment.

There is broad agreement on the importance of safeguarding children though there is limited experimental research on the most effective approaches to best protect children from violence in school.

Child health programs may improve learning outcomes, and schools are an especially important, convenient, and cost-effective venue to deliver these interventions.

The Science of Teaching initiative's overall objective is to provide data, evidence, and innovation

This literature review presents a simplified history of recent structured pedagogy, key findings, important questions, and elements of implementation.

The initiative's overall objective is to provide data, evidence, and innovation in order to improve foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

The initiative's overall objective is to provide data, evidence, and innovation in order to improve foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

This is a guide on key concepts of assessment-informed instruction in the classroom.

This report highlights why teacher development matters, and quality drivers for teacher professional development that are well-designed, scaled, and sustained.

Based on the current evidence, researchers suggest a policy of selective tenure.

This includes four broad elements: (1) student materials; (2) lesson plans for teachers; (3) teacher training; and (4) ongoing support to teachers.

This guide distills key takeaways from the literature and provides guidance on structural details of effective ongoing support to teachers.

This report outlines an approach to teacher recruitment and professional development.

Online educational platform "Help me Thrive" provides a library with free educational and therapeutic resources

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Comparative overview of various TaRL Application in India and Africa

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There are a variety of inclusive education programs that may be effective at increasing access to education and learning outcomes for children with disabilities.

Research from many different contexts have shown that programs that target instruction to students’ current learning level rather than their age or grade can increase learning outcomes.

Teach ECE is a free classroom observation tool that provides a window into one of the less explored and more important aspects of a child’s education: what goes on in the classroom.

Teach is a free classroom observation tool that provides a window into one of the less explored and more important aspects of a student’s education

A program that combines teacher training with textbook distribution in Indonesia improves vulnerable children's literacy outcomes.

This Teacher Wellbeing Toolkit comprises tools and resources that address teacher wellbeing in emergency settings.

Financial rewards for teachers conditional on either increased effort or improved results may be effective for improving student learning in contexts where teacher effort is particularly low.

This paper proposes a set of indicators—the In-Service Teacher Training Survey Instrument—to standardize reporting on teacher PD programs.

This brief describes the state of the evidence, contextual and equity considerations when designing teacher training programs, and suggestions for applying the information in practice.

This handbook is useful for education personnel such as principals, administrators, and counsellors, teacher training, teachers who want to begin a remedial education program.

The Teacher’s Guide Diagnostic Tool is an instrument to assess the quality of Teacher’s Guides 1 in any subject in primary grades 1 through 4. The Tool assesses Teacher’s Guides based on two sets of c

This 10-week online course brings together ICT and sustainable development thought leaders

This report involves a detailed survey that provides insight into the perspectives of EdTech experts regarding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education in Africa.

This How-To Note offers guidance for addressing ICT4E in education programming and is applicable across all levels, contexts, settings, and providers.

Time to Teach captures the voices of thousands of teachers and other education stakeholders to identify factors affecting their attendance and uses this evidence to inform teacher policies.

This publication provides some tools that programme personnel may use in the M&E of their multilingual education (MLE) programmes.

UNESCO supports the efforts of its member states to design and implement effective, evidence-based ICT in education policies and master plans.

The guidance note focuses primarily on countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) region, but also helps to inform efforts in other regions.

This webpage provides a repository of resources to support better understanding of parenting across different age groups.

Digital learning has the potential to offer interactive and personalized learning for children, in and out of school, including the most marginalized.

This guide provides a repository of tools that are aligned with the 15 Elements of Deliverology ®, and are designed to guide you in your journey to creating impact through your aspirations.

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The number of children along with youth and adults are facing a major setback in attending the schools because of Covid-19 uncertainty.

eLearning Africa is a global network of professionals working in the field of ICT supported education and training.