Pacific Education: Education statistics to help leaders to make good decisions
Do you know what the statistics say about your country's education system?
Governments and the leading stakeholders in this sector have a duty to help the public understand their education data and related issues.
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Pacific Education: Many of Pacific students are still unable to return to school
Many of these students are still unable to return to school for a variety of reasons.
In Papua New Guinea, although the nationwide lockdown - which affected 2.4 million students - was lifted in May, some schools have chosen not to reopen because of the…
Pacific Education: Computers to support learning in primary schools
COVID-19 has amplified the need for Pacific Education systems to invest in their schools’ ICT facilities to support online learning. However, many of these education systems are constrained by factors like their country’s under-developed ICT…
Pacific Education: Good data is essential for making sound decisions and monitoring progress
Good education data is essential for Pacific Education systems to gauge the impact of education policies and make sound education decisions. The data is also needed to calculate PIC’s progress toward achieving the targets of SDG4 and the Pacific Regional…
Pacific Education: Outsourcing the development of examination papers
For many Pacific island countries, the development of examination papers for its high-stakes national examinations is usually outsourced by their education ministries to subject experts in their tertiary institutions. Last year proved a challenge as…
Pacific Education: the region's teachers require increased support in the teaching of geometry
This was revealed through the contextual questionnaire given to teacher respondents in the PILNA-administered schools: Of the seven numeracy domains taught at the Year 4 and Year 6 grade level, geometry and, data and chance were the ones teachers felt…
Pacific Education: Teaching Literacy
In the PILNA 2018 study, teachers were asked about their confidence in teaching specific aspects of literacy and numeracy. Their responses are important to help education systems design their teachers' professional development plans.
The teaching of…
Pacific Education: caregiver engagement with students
The PILNA 2018 study found the degree of caregiver engagement or support to be low, with only about 4 in every 10 students having a family member or ‘caregiver’ actively supporting their efforts to learn to read at home. This study underlined the need…
Pacific Education: gap in critical thinking
Year 4 and Year 6 students in the PILNA 2018 research were assessed for their grasp of basic literacy and numeracy skills. For questions or items that required critical thinking, more than half of the students were unable to provide the expected response…
Pacific Education: pupil-teacher ratio
Education research suggests that student learning outcomes improve with low pupil-teacher ratio. In other words, smaller classes are generally beneficial as it can mean that students receive more attention, or focused assistance, from their teacher.…