Central Data Catalog

2015

The Evaluación de Rendimiento Académico (ERA) has been administered annually since 2007. From 2012 onwards, it has been a censal assessment administered by the Dirección General de Curriculo y Evaluación to grades 1 to 9 (ISCED 1 and 2) students in general and technical education programmes in public and private schools. In 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and onwards it has also been administered to a sample of students with the goal of informing educational authorities about the progress achieved at a national level.

The ERA is a low-stake assessment. It is a written assessment, administered face-to-face and delivered through paper-pencil tests. All test-takers are presented with different cognitive booklets based in complex matrix sampling, which are aligned with the national curriculum.

The ERA serves the following purposes:

- supporting teachers (training, relevant materials, etc.)

- sub-national level monitoring of learning outcomes

- monitoring education quality levels

- planning education policy reforms

Census (all students at the given grades or ages)

Results are reported at the student, grade, section, school, sub-national and national levels. Data are disaggregated by sex, geographic location (urban and rural), and type of school (public and private).

Results are published in reports, which are available in print and online.