Lesson Learned

For student assessments to accurately discern changes in student performance, the difficulty of the questions needs to be aligned with average student performance in the context they are used.

• Guatemala Threshold Program
• Education
• Education

For student assessments to accurately discern changes in student performance, the difficulty of the questions needs to be aligned with average student performance in the context they are used. Both baseline and endline scores on student assessment for the treatment and control groups were quite low, suggesting the test instrument was too difficult and lacks discrimination power. MCC should continue to work with partner countries to improve school assessment tools.