First Principles: Designing Effective Education Programs Using Standards and Assessments

This First Principles: Designing Effective Education Programs Using Standards and Assessment Digest provides an overview and guidance for designing and implementing programs focusing on standards and assessment. The principles and steps are primarily meant to guide program designs, including the development of requests for and subsequent review of proposals, the implementation of program activities, and the development of performance management plans, evaluations, and research studies. The guidance in this document is meant to be used and adapted for a variety of settings to help USAID officers, educators, and implementers overcome the numerous challenges in developing and applying standards as well as the subsequent assessments of performance.