The SEA-PLM 2024 Regional Snapshot on writing presents results on students’ writing skills across all participating countries and accompanies the release of the 2024 writing datasets, complementing earlier results on reading, mathematics, and contextual data.

The SEA-PLM 2024 datasets are now available, providing free access to Grade 5 students’ reading and mathematics achievement data from six Southeast Asian countries, along with codebooks, questionnaires, and technical documentation. Access to the datasets requires completion of a registration form.

The Southeast Asia Primary Learning Metrics (SEA-PLM) program has released its 2024 Main Regional Report, presenting new comparative evidence on the reading and mathematics achievement of Grade 5 students across six countries. The learning data are complemented by student-, teacher-, and school-level questionnaires, and, for the first time, by system-level questionnaires.

The TIMSS 2023 Longitudinal International Database (IDB) is now available. As the first longitudinal extension of TIMSS, the study followed students from Grade 4 to Grade 5 and from Grade 8 to Grade 9. The database contains student achievement and process data, as well as contextual information at the student, home, teacher, school, and national levels collected in 2023 and 2024. Comprehensive documentation will be provided to support secondary data analyses.

The OECD has released the results from TALIS Starting Strong 2024, addressing the practices, background, professional development opportunities, and working conditions of staff and leaders in early childhood education and care (ECEC) across 17 countries and jurisdictions.