Psychometric Analysis & Item Development Training of Samoa's Education Assessment & Examinations Division
EQAP's specialists in psychometric analysis and item development are facilitating the professional development training of Samoa's education assessment and examination officers. The need for the training was flagged after Samoa's Ministry of Education,…
Psychometric Analysis & Item Development Training of Samoa's Education Assessment & Examinations Division
EQAP's specialists in psychometric analysis and item development are facilitating the professional development training of Samoa's education assessment and examination officers. The need for the training was flagged after Samoa's Ministry of Education,…
Review of the Pacific Regional Teacher Competency Standards
EQAP will coordinate the review of the Pacific regional teacher competency standards in collaboration with several regional agencies and development partners.
The review is necessary to improve the currency and relevance of the regional teacher…
Oceania sport sector set to benefit from milestone ONOC-SPC partnership
A partnership agreement signed today between the Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) and the Pacific Community (SPC) has set the stage for the Pacific’s sporting sector to strengthen career pathways, technical expertise and administration skills…
Pacific Education: Pacific Register for Qualifications and Standards
EQAP supports member countries with accreditation of its qualifications and the registration of these on a regional register.
Five Pacific countries (Fiji, PNG, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu), have successfully established their national qualifications…
Key design changes in PILNA research to yield more helpful data for Pacific education
Photo Caption: Fiji’s representative Josaia Sila during the PILNA Steering Committee meeting last week.
The Pacific Islands Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (PILNA) in October will be more extensive and is expected to yield more telling…
Pacific Education: Teachers' qualifications in the region
While a large portion of Year 4 and Year 6 students (83%) in the Pacific region had teachers who had completed teacher training programmes, about 1 in 4 students had a teacher whose qualification was either at the certificate level, or lower.
8th PILNA Steering Committee Meeting
The Pacific Islands Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (PILNA) Steering Committee will convene its annual meeting over two days through virtual mode. The committee's main task this year is to review the preparatory work for the fourth cycle of PILNA and…
EMIS, a game changer for Pacific education systems
Photo: PNG's education statisticians who were part of a recent EQAP training on education data
Imagine being able to track students’ learning progress in real time with a few clicks on a computer. Or being able to generate a report on a student’s…