SEA-PLM 2024 Fact Sheet
- 2021-2022 (Augst-December): framework development
- 2021-2022 (August-December: instrument development
- 2023 (April-May): field trial - data collection batch 1 countries
- 2023 (August-November): field trial - data collection batch 2 countries
- 2024 (April-May): main survey - data collection batch 1 countries
- 2024 (August-November): main survey - data collection batch 2 countries
- November 2025: release of international report
- November 2025: release of international database
- Generate reliable data and evidence for monitoring learning outcomes across and within countries.
- Understand what factors facilitate or hinder effective learning of children along their school journey.
- Promote cross-border exchange on learning and education policies.
- Build the capacity of participating countries to design and conduct solid learning assessments.
- Strengthen national education stakeholders’ capacity to analyze, interpret, and use learning outcomes data.
- Help countries to identify, prioritize, and address educational challenges in key policy areas, such as curriculum development, resource allocation, pedagogical practice, and planning at national and sub-national levels.
- Contribute to countries’ efforts to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4; in particular, track progress on foundational learning (SDG 4.1.1) and knowledge and skills related to global citizenship (SDG 4.7).
- Reading literacy
- Writing literacy
- Mathematical literacy
Note: For this new round, the global citizenship domain originally embedded in SEA-PLM 2019 as a standalone domain is now included in SEA-PLM 2024 as a broader, inclusive, and organic dimension: essential skills.
Assessment or survey framework
Reading literacy
- Content
- Process
- Context
Writing literacy
- Content
- Context
- Process
Mathematical literacy
- Context
- Process
- Content
Contextual framework
Student questionnaire
- Student characteristics
- Home background
- Students’ school
- Students’ perceptions of key learning domains and other skills
Parent questionnaire
- The respondent of the questionnaire
- Characteristics of the household
- Family support for the child during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Characteristics of the child
School questionnaire
- Characteristics of the school principal
- School characteristics
- School facilities and resources
- School teaching practices and policies in key learning domains and other skills
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School community context
Teacher questionnaire
- Teacher characteristics
- School climate
- Teaching of students
System questionnaire
- Background information about the country’s education system
- Curriculum structure and implementation of literacy and numeracy programs
- Policies on teaching and learning that support foundational learning early childhood education (ECE) structure and transition
- Mother tongue multilingual and foreign language policy in basic education
- Organization and structure, management and leadership in basic education schools
- Preventing, addressing, and mitigating violence and discrimination/promote equality and happiness (gender and minority)
- Financing/expenditure in basic education
- Response to the Covid-19 pandemic (system resilience)
- Post-Covid monitoring of student outcomes
- Teachers and teacher education
- Parent and community engagement
- Assessment, monitoring, and reporting
- Education sector planning, financing and resourcing
Number
7 countries
List
Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Viet Nam, Timor Leste
Target population
All students enrolled in the grade that represents five years of schooling, counting from the first year of ISCED Level 1, referred to in SEA-PLM as
Grade 5.
Sample
The minimum sample size is 150 schools and 4,000 students per country.
Student achievement tests
- Paper-and-pencil assessments of students’ mathematical, writing, and reading literacy
- 18 rotated booklets per language version
Background questionnaires
- Includes the following paper-and-pencil instruments
- Student questionnaire
- Parent questionnaire
- Teacher questionnaire
- School questionnaire
- Additionally includes:
- Online System questionnaire
Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Secretariat (SEAMEO)
Mom Luang Pin Malakul Centenary Bldg
920 Sukhumvit Road
Bangkok 10110
Thailand
Email: seaplm (at) seameo.org
Phone: +66 (0) 2391-0144
Fax: +66 (0) 2381-2587