In February and March 2023, CEM’s Dr Irenka Suto, Assistant Director of Assessment & Research, and Suzanne Crocker, Researcher & Assessment Products Integration Manager, travelled to Southeast Asia to deliver workshops to over 200 senior leaders and teachers. These workshops were delivered to 80 schools in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
They provided hands-on opportunities to work together with schools to understand what contributes to success in education. They also put into practice two pieces of research that CEM’s Research & Development team have been working on with colleagues across Cambridge University Press & Assessment: the Cambridge Learner Profile framework and the Cambridge Education Journey.
The first part of the workshops presented participants with a holistic view of what educational success looks like. Types of success include achieving qualifications and certificates, and progression to the next level of education, but also high wellbeing, strong life competencies, and more. Participants were asked what different assessments and evaluation they delivered and how they fit together to support holistic education. Irenka then presented the Cambridge Learner Profile framework, which brings together five major areas of teacher insight into educational success.
