Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics : Audit of Curricula

An early step in developing an assessment framework for the Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics

(SEA-PLM) was determining how to design and construct a single assessment program across all

ASEAN member countries. This step needed to take account of the similarities and differences in

the curriculum frameworks in each country for the four domains to be assessed through SEA-PLM:

Mathematics, Reading, Writing and Global Citizenship.

This account was achieved through an audit of the curriculum materials from 11 ASEAN countries,

comprising those countries already participating in the SEA-PLM field trial, and others likely to join SEAPLM

in the future. The audit examined statements concerning the overarching orientation of education

in each country and then focused on the details of the curriculum for Grade 5, as the first set of

assessment instruments developed for SEA-PLM target this grade leve