The ACER Centre for Global Education Monitoring supports the monitoring of educational outcomes worldwide. Ray Adams explains how the Centre’s systematic and strategic collection of data on educational outcomes, and factors related to those outcomes, can be used to inform policy aimed at improving educational progress for all learners.
ACER has established four centres to consolidate and enhance its position as an international leader in several key areas of expertise. The Centre for Global Education Monitoring (GEM) is one of these centres. The core aims of GEM are: to strengthen the capacity of national systems to implement educational assessments, and use the results in policy development; to conduct international assessment programs; to participate in the shaping of international learning goals; to develop and maintain indicators of educational outcomes; and to report on and analyse international educational outcomes.
In recognition of the importance of the GEM mission, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) became a founding partner of GEM in July 2014, when DFAT and ACER signed a three-year partnership agreement. DFAT’s support includes a $1.5 million grant that will help to enhance the effectiveness of the Australian Government’s development assistance in the education sector through GEM’s efforts to improve the availability and quality of education data in the Indo-Pacific region.
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