The aims of the event are threefold:
- to identify lessons for public policy using existing international and regional learning assessment data, with a focus on countries furthest from achieving global goals.
- to highlight innovations needed in learning assessment data, both in relation to the measurement of learning as well as different forms of disadvantage (notably poverty, gender and disability).
- to promote ways to ensure learning tools and data are publicly available, enabling researchers to maximise methodological rigour in the use of the data and widen the policy debate.