National Learning Assessment Mapping Project

In this policy brief we map the landscape of national assessments and outline the ways in which the seven domains of the Learning Metrics Task Force (LMTF) are reflected in the current priorities of national education systems. Using publicly available data sources, NLAMP collected national assessment metadata from 125 countries from all six regions of the world, and created a database of over 300 assessments, categorizing their subject focus areas, which learning domains they fall in, and at which point in the schooling cycle they are administered. We subsequently analyzed global patterns in what is being measured, thereby creating a current snap shot to serve as a baseline from which to assess the LMTF’s progress.