The Classroom Assessment Scoring System as a Measure of Effective Teaching to Address the Learning Crisis

Abstract

Despite the remarkable progress in access to education, the learning crisis in South Asia continues to be a serious concern. To explore solutions, the Asian Development Bank organized a knowledge sharing workshop on improving education quality through supporting teaching activities and teacher assessment in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 6 November 2017. The workshop focused on teacher professional development since teachers’ role is the most significant in-school factor impacting student achievement. Yet, literature also demonstrates that traditional signifiers of teacher quality such as education level, training, age, contract status, and years of experience have been poor predictors of teachers’ influence on student learning in developing countries. Therefore, measuring effective teaching is critical to understanding why some students learn more than other students.