Have you heard of IELS? Very likely not, yet it’s important and the early years community should know and care about it. Let me explain.
IELS stands for the ‘International Early Learning Child Well-being Study’, which is the latest of a series of international large-scale assessments (or ILSAs) of children and adults being developed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The best known of these ILSAs is the ‘Programme for International Student Assessment’ or PISA, a triennial international programme of testing 15-year-olds in reading, maths and science, which began in 2000; the results from the eighth round of testing, involving 690,000 students from 81 countries and economies were published in December 2023.
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