IEA INSIDER 2025
DISSEMINATING RESULTS: TO IMPROVE, NOT TO PROVE The Center for Educational Research & Development (CERD) plans the dissemination of results of learning assessment studies, to ensure that the results reach various stakeholders, and to maximize the benefit of these studies on educational reform efforts. In the case of LaNA, the dissemination strategy gives more attention to target audience (early cycle teachers, early cycle supervisors, curriculum developers, and teacher trainers). The following key activities were part of the dissemination plan: • Preparing a brochure summarizing the preliminary results (in both Arabic and English) and sharing it with relevant stakeholders and posting it on CERD and MoEHE websites. • Presenting the key findings at a consultative meeting with the Educational Policy Committee, general directors at MoEHE, and general directors of educational districts. • Conducting technical meetings with subject experts (supervisors, teachers, and school principals) to further discuss LaNA results. • Producing a short video summarizing study phases and key findings and policy implications. • Developing a school report (a few pages for each participating school), to provide general indicators for each school compared to national and international indicators. • Discussing the results with curriculum developers. • Sharing the findings with academia, mainly teacher education faculties and teacher training departments. • Establishing technical committees to prepare remedial materials based on LaNA results. • Developing a LaNA national report.
POLICY IMPLICATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS • Following the notion of (to improve not to prove), and considering the successful implementation of LaNA, one of the key challenges is how to maximize the benefit from its findings to improve. Based on the specialized meetings and forums to deal with LaNA findings the following recommendations are proposed: • Adopting early intervention programs to improve literacy and numeracy skills starting from the KGs. • Training teachers on teaching strategies that enhance reading comprehension skills. • Conducting further analysis of the LaNA to develop policy briefs that inform policies and practices. • Developing literacy and numeracy items that cover LaNA assessment framework domains. • Supporting future participation in the LaNA study to provide trend-based indicators that may help measuring the impact of educational interventions in the MoEHE. • Transferring best practices from highest-performing schools in LaNA to all schools. • Enhancing research collaboration between CERD, national research firms, universities, LaNA team and international research firms to develop joint policy- oriented research using LaNA datasets. ■
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