How International Student Assessments Can Inform Policy and Practice to Improve Education Quality: Key learning from international assessments like PISA and TIMSS over the last 20 years

Global Case Studies: Evidence from countries that have improved in terms of their performance in international assessments to understand how they have utilized the data that they collect from international assessments for evidence-based policy making; and to discuss how they have used their experiences from participating in international assessments to strengthen their national assessments.

Islamic World Case Studies: Evidence from select Islamic countries to identify their distinct features and commonalities that influence their achievement scores; and to discuss policy initiatives where they currently use or intend to include International Large-scale Student Assessments to improve their national assessment systems and enhance their learning outcomes.