ERCE 2025 Fact Sheet
- Long title
- Frequency of data collection
- Previous cycles
- Schedule
- Objectives
- Research questions
- Assessment domain(s)
- Study framework (summary)
- Participating entities
- Target population and sample (summary)
- Data collection techniques and instruments (summary)
- Initiator
- Study director(s)
- Study website(s)
- Contact
- Sources
- 2022: general design, work plan
- 2022-2023: curriculum analysis and instrument development
- 2023: framework development for associated factors, questionnaire development, software development; language adaptations, sampling design, field test
- 2025: data collection and analysis
- 2026: release of results and publication of report
- Contribute to an informed public debate on inclusive quality education and in support of the right to education.
- Identify learning achievements and the factors associated with learning.
- Input this information into the decision making, design, and development of educational policies and practices.
- Contribute to the monitoring of 2030 Agenda.
- What is the general level of academic performance of students in elementary school in the subject areas of reading, writing, mathematics, and natural sciences in the participating countries?
- What is the relationship between academic performance and other variables (associated factors), linked to students and their families, to teachers and classrooms, and to schools and their management?
- Reading
- Mathematics
- Natural sciences
- Writing
- Socio-emotional skills
Assessment or survey framework
Reading
- Content domains
- Reading comprehension
- Metalinguistic and theoretical aspects
- Cognitive domains
- Literal comprehension
- Inferential comprehension
- Critical understanding
Mathematics
- Content domains
- Numeracy
- Geometry
- Measurement
- Statistics
- Variation cognitive domains
- Recognition of objects and elements
- Solving simple problems
- Solving complex problems
Natural sciences
- Content domains
- Health
- Living beings
- Environment
- Earth and the solar system
- Matter and energy
- Cognitive domains
- Recognition of information and concepts
- Comprehension and application of such concepts
- Scientific thinking and problem-solving
Writing
- Content domains
- Discursive proficiency
- Textual proficiency
- Conventions of legibility
Socio-emotional skills
- Empathy
- Openness to diversity
- School self-regulation
- School self-efficiency (2025)
- Cooperative work (2025)
Contextual or background framework
- Students and their families
- Teachers and teaching
- Schools
Numbers
Overall: 17 countries and the Mexican state of Nuevo León
List
Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, República Dominicana, Uruguay, Venezuela, Estado de Nuevo León (México)
Target population
Students in the third and sixth grades in the participating entities.
Sample (across all countries)
- More than 180,000 students in each grade (third and sixth)
- More than 4,500 schools
- More than 3,800 third-grade classrooms
- More than 3,700 sixth-grade classrooms
Instruments administered to students
- Cognitive test
- Questionnaires
Instruments administered to parents
- Questionnaire
Instruments administered to teachers and schools
- Questionnaire for teachers
- Questionnaire for principals
UNESCO Regional Office in Santiago and Office for UN Coordination in Latin America and the Caribbean
Enrique Delpiano 2058
Providencia, Santiago de Chile
CP 7511019
Chile
Tel.: +56 2 2472 46 00
Fax: +56 2 2655 10 46
Email: santiago@unesco.org
URL: https://www.unesco.org/es/fieldoffice/santiago?hub=66920