Representing nearly six years of work, we were delighted to launch the Schools2030 Item Bank for public use in a webinar held in December 2025. The moment marked five years of partnership with teachers and assessment partners around the world determined to approach assessment in a more context-driven, holistic way.
Designed as a searchable repository of the holistic assessment items and co-developed with teachers across nine countries, the Schools2030 Item Bank items help teachers better understand student learning across academic, social, and emotional domains, but has wider applications too, for research and even policy-making. The Item Bank contains psychometric information on each of the items, including on reliability and discrimination.
During the webinar, our Global Assessment Partner, Oxford MeasurEd, who led on this amazing resource, took attendees through the purpose and structure of the Item Bank and explained how it strengthens sharing, adaptation, and cross-country learning for better teaching. We also heard reflections from on-the-ground assessment partner in Afghanistan, as well as from our friends at Porticus and Education Cannot Wait. Watch the webinar above, in case you missed it.
Explore this important Schools2030 resource and discover how it contributes to an evolving global evidence base – one that can support teachers across the world to make better, data-informed decisions. In the coming weeks and months, more items and translated tools will be added, so check back often!
As part of this work, we are also pleased to share again three handbooks that were developed by the teams on how we approached assessment tool and item design. See below handbooks on Core Concepts in Assessment, Designing Academic Assessments and Measuring Non-Academic Learning.
