Join a free webinar on Wednesday October 2, 2013

by Deepa Srikantaiah, GPE Secretariat

The October numeracy webinar of the Global Partnership for Education will focus on quality early grade mathematics assessments.  Children take a variety of mathematics assessments in their early grade mathematics careers, and each assessment provides different information. Some assessments guide teachers’ instruction, other assessments provide insight into how students understand mathematics knowledge and how they apply skills.  However, since assessments are often based on the specifics of the children’s learning environments, it is important to develop quality assessments that are comparable to get better data for educators.

Dr. Leanne Ketterlin Geller, Associate Professor and Director of Research in Mathematics Education at Southern Methodist University, United States, will be our October numeracy webinar speaker. She will talk about technically adequate early grade mathematics measures that are used in a developing country context.  Dr. Ketterlin Geller will also present case studies and recommend how early grade mathematics assessments can be used in other country contexts.

The webinar series is part of a Community of Practice on Numeracy facilitated by the Global Partnership for Education. The community of practice is open to teachers, educators, practitioners, researchers, academics and others interested in numeracy.

Join the community of practice on ‘Numeracy for Development’ here.

All webinars are at 10 am EDT (2 pm GMT) and typically fall on the first Wednesday of the month, unless otherwise noted. Here is the schedule for upcoming webinars:

• November 6, 2013 – Kamal Herath, Plan Sri Lanka – Boosting Mathematics Skills Through Play-Based Learning in Sri-Lanka
• December 4, 2013 – Meera Tendolkar, Pratham India – Pratham’s ‘learning camp’

model – a non-linear approach to explore how children best learn math in India

If you have specific expertise in numeracy and would like to present in a webinar, please contact me at dsrikantaiah@globalpartnership.org