August 31, 2024

A virtual workshop on Research Dissemination [for] Improving Learning: Developing Measures of Accountability and Evaluating their Association with Students’ Gains in Achievement in Nepal was held on September 2, 2021 (Bhadra 17, 2078)...

August 31, 2024

STAKEHOLDER WORKSHOP   We conducted a stakeholder workshop at the Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal (ISER-N) central office in Fulbari, Chitwan. This workshop has four basic objectives (i) to share project objective...

August 31, 2024

11 ISER-N staffs trained as observers conducted unannounced classroom observation data collection from January 21 to March 22, 2019 in the 114 schools that participated in the student assessment. Three waves (12 observations in each wave in each scho...

August 31, 2024

In December 6, 2018 a pretest of the paper Classroom Observation Instrument was conducted in grades six, seven and eight of 3 different schools of adjoining district Nawalpur. Subsequently, the second pretest was conducted via windows tablet for 3 da...

August 31, 2024

CONSULTATIVE MEETINGS AT THE LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVELS   We shared our project objectives/implementation plan and obtained stakeholder feedback to facilitate stakeholder engagement and support.  We held consultative meetings that involv...

August 31, 2024

A three-day training session on scoring the student assessment was provided to new research staff to standardized scoring (to minimize inter-examiner inconsistencies).  Twenty examiners participated.  (14,595 baseline assessments have now b...

August 31, 2024

STAKEHOLDER’S WORKSHOPS   We conducted a stakeholder workshop at ISER-N central office in Chitwan.  We conducted this workshop in three sessions.  This workshop has three basic objectives (i) to share project objectives/imple...

August 31, 2024

Prof. Brian Rowan, Co-Investigator from the University of Michigan, visited the research site in February 2019 and provided a three-day training session on data quality checking (nonresponse, item missing, reliability, validity, inter-rater correlati...

August 31, 2024

BASELINE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT ASSESSMENT DATA COLLECTION  The Baseline Student Achievement Assessment data collection was administered in 114 selected schools in Western Chitwan that offer grade 8. Baseline data collection took place between...

August 31, 2024

STUDENT ASSESSMENT ITEM DESIGN PRETEST DATA COLLECTION   Pretest data collection for the item design of student assessment was conducted from May 20 to 23, 2018 in the Gaindakot area, which lies in the Nawalpur District adjacent to the distr...