Vietnam WB Training workshops
Capacity building in national monitoring of student achievement
This is a capacity building program for monitoring of student achievement for Vietnam, with participation from selected countries in East Asia (Cambodia, Laos, Mongolia, Vietnam) was sponsored by the World Bank, with financial support from the Canadian Agency for International Development.
The goals of the training program are:
- To provide educational planners and researchers in East Asia with the knowledge and skills necessary to enable them to improve the capacity to measure student learning achievement and to monitor the quality of the education system.
- Institutionalization of education quality monitoring is also an implicit objective of this activity.
A series of five workshops, emphasizing hands-on activities, were delivered over the course of one calendar year, from November 2007 to November 2008.
The workshops focused on specific technical skills to conduct a national assessment of student learning achievement, using the most modern evaluation and monitoring techniques. Technical discussions were based on real-life problems and exercises.
The duration of each workshop was approximately one week.Workshop 1: Test development and analysis
To acquaint all participants with a knowledge and understanding of the steps and techniques involved in test development and test analysis.
Staff: P. Griffin , M. Wu, C. Nguyen
Workshop 2: Techniques for questionnaire design and analysis
To acquaint all participants with a knowledge and understanding of the steps and techniques involved in questionnaire design and analysis.
Three products will emerge from this workshop: a short pupil questionnaire, a short school head questionnaire and a Data Collectors’ Manual. Testing in each country will be conducted before Workshop 4 and the booklets brought to Workshop 4 for data entry and data cleaning. Some analyses of the data will be conducted in Workshops 4 and 5.
Staff: N. Postlethwaite, M. Walker, M. Wu, C. Nguyen, M. Wu
Workshop 3: Sampling and weighting for educational research
To acquaint participants with the steps and techniques involved in probability sampling and the use of SAMDEM.
Staff: K. Ross, M. Saito, S. Dolata, C. Nguyen
Workshop 4: Data Entry and Cleaning
To provide participants with skills in data management such as data entry, data cleaning and merging
Staff: N. Postlethwaite, C. Nguyen, M. Pavlovic, N. Zoanetti
Workshop 5: Data analysis and interpretation. Report writing and presentation for policy, teaching and learning
To provide participants with;
- skills in interpreting student ability on the basis of derived variables from CONQUEST output, analysing and describing a range of variable types, calculating sampling error, and exploring relationships between student achievement and other factors.
- knowledge and skills in writing reports, drawing policy and practical recommendations from research results, effectively presenting the results to different audiences, disseminating research results, and making impact on improving learning and teaching.
Staff: P. Griffin, M. Wu, C. Nguyen, M. Pavlovic