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How can formative assessment foster learning as schools reopen?

How can formative assessment foster learning as schools reopen?

Education Methods & tools

By Robert Jenkins and Rukmini Banerji

During COVID-19 related school closures, at least 463 million children had no access to remote learning (digital or TV/Radio). This crisis not only affects overall learning levels, but increases gaps, with the learning of children from disadvantaged households more deeply affected. Children from disadvantaged households miss learning… Read more →←
Pack your suitcase carefully: New tools for making smarter data investments

Pack your suitcase carefully: New tools for making smarter data investments

Data and Research Methods & tools

By Emily Garin, UNICEF Data and Analytics

Imagine packing for a trip. You don’t know what the weather will be, so it’s difficult to know whether you’ll need warm clothes and rainboots or light clothes and sandals. If you have a large suitcase, it’s easy to throw in both and prepare for all the possibilities. With a small suitcase though, the items you pick matter much… Read more →←
Protecting children from harm during COVID-19 needs evidence

Protecting children from harm during COVID-19 needs evidence

COVID-19 Evidence Methods & tools Research synthesis

By Shivit Bakrania, Sandy Oliver

Although much of the world is focused on the “silver lining” that COVID-19 does not appear to severely impact children’s health, UNICEF is raising the alarm about the potential damage of the hidden impacts on children’s health as well as the indirect socio-economic effects of the fallout from the pandemic. In response, UNICEF… Read more →←
How involved are parents in their children’s learning? MICS6 data reveal critical insights

How involved are parents in their children’s learning? MICS6 data reveal critical insights

Data and Research Methods & tools

By Sakshi Mishra, Matt Brossard, Nicolas Reuge, and Suguru Mizunoya

It is widely understood that parents play a pivotal role in a child’s education – research suggests that parental involvement in a child’s education boosts well-being and confidence and is important for academic progression. With school closures due to the global COVID-19 pandemic affecting an estimated 1.58 billion children in… Read more →←
More than just a voice: What meaningful adolescent participation looks like and how to measure it

More than just a voice: What meaningful adolescent participation looks like and how to measure it

Data and Research Methods & tools

By UNICEF Data: Claudia Cappa, Kathryn Marie Werntz and Juan Manuel Puyana

Yosua, a 15-year-old student in Lampung province, Indonesia, realized that many of his friends were being forced to drop out of school. Erratic rains due to climate change were causing crops to fail, making it impossible for families to afford school fees. Together with a group of other adolescents, Yosua presented the concerns and… Read more →←
Administrative Data: Missed opportunity for learning and research in humanitarian emergencies?

Administrative Data: Missed opportunity for learning and research in humanitarian emergencies?

Data and Research Methods & tools

By Elisabetta Aurino, Tilman Brück, Silvio Daidone, Luisa Natali and Ben Schwab

The use of administrative data for learning and research purposes in humanitarian emergencies is a relatively unexplored field. How can we make better use of these rich pools data in humanitarian settings? And what are the potential pitfalls? It is a stylized fact that in more severe emergencies, more administrative data is available… Read more →←
Collecting data on some of the world’s most vulnerable children

Collecting data on some of the world’s most vulnerable children

Data and Research Methods & tools

By Lauren Parks, Nicole Petrowski and Claudia Cappa

Maria Luisa Jaen was abandoned by her mother at a hospital when she was 28 days old and placed into a residential care centre in the town of Cerro Silvestre, Arraiján District, in Panama Province. At just under two years old, her surroundings play a key role in determining her chances in life. A nurturing home environment and… Read more →←
Measuring taboo topics: List randomization for research on gender-based violence

Measuring taboo topics: List randomization for research on gender-based violence

Methods & tools

By Amber Peterman and Tia Palermo

Gender-based violence is notoriously under-reported—for understandable reasons. Experience of violence is highly stigmatized and victims are often shamed. Respondents may be fearful of retaliation if perpetrators and others find out they have disclosed their experiences. There may also be cultural taboos about disclosing violence,… Read more →←
How to halve poverty in all its dimensions by 2030

How to halve poverty in all its dimensions by 2030

Evidence to Policy Methods & tools

By Yekaterina Chzhen and Lucia Ferrone

The way countries define poverty is going to matter for their probability of achieving Sustainable Development Goal 1, Target 1.2. It calls for reducing at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions by 2030. This means that national… Read more →←
Are randomized control trials bad for children?

Are randomized control trials bad for children?

Methods & tools Research Ethics

By Tia Palermo

There was a time when UNICEF was known in development circles as the agency that “does everything but knows nothing.” Indeed, UNICEF is known for getting things done for children through persuasive advocacy, a human rights approach, and its presence on the ground. Today UNICEF is increasingly committed to evidence-based programming,… Read more →←
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