How ICAN adds Value in the Global, Regional and National Education Monitoring Landscape

As a special member of the PAL Network, the Australian Council for Educational Research – Centre for Global Education Monitoring  (ACER-GEM)  has been providing technical support to citizen-led assessments since 2014. At the heart of this collaboration is the aim to further develop the methodological strength and rigour of citizen-led assessments as an essential data source for education monitoring. As a technical partner of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), which has been mandated with monitoring progress towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Education (SDG 4), ACER-GEM has contributed substantially to the refinement of the UIS Minimum Proficiency Levels that define what learners are expected to demonstrate for achieving SDG 4 indicator 4.1.1 (a) about the proportion of children achieving minimum proficiency in reading and mathematics. In this context, ACER-GEM provided technical support to the PAL Network for developing the ICAN testing tools with the view to broadening the scope of citizen-led assessments in line with the SDG 4 minimum proficiency requirements.