The Launch of the LaNA 2023 Linking Study took place on Tuesday, 25 February 2025 at 11:00am CET.
Hosted in partnership with INEADE in Dakar, Senegal, the live-streamed event showcased highlights from the LaNA International Report and Key Takeaways for Policy and Practice. The event closed with a panel discussion with the LaNA National Research Coordinators (NRC) on the Perspectives of the Importance and Impact of LaNA.
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About LaNA
IEA’s LaNA, developed by the TIMSS & PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College, measures basic reading and mathematics skills at the primary school level, while also providing countries with insights across more advanced benchmark levels as measured in TIMSS and PIRLS. It provides country-level results in an international context.
It is a less complex and less demanding assessment than TIMSS and PIRLS, using multiple-choice items only, and is a pen-and-paper assessment. Consequently, it is easier to administer and less resource-intensive.
LaNA is an off-cycle assessment, meaning countries have flexibility over when to implement the study. As such, countries can implement a study that fits their timeline, and have a more bespoke study by adapting context questionnaires for national contexts. With these benefits in mind, LaNA is also a vehicle for general national capacity-building in educational assessment, including for countries that haven’t participated in International Large-Scale Assessments before.
More information on LaNA can be found here.
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