AERC Hosts: Dr Emma Carter Discussion on “Insights from the Leaders in Teaching project in Rwanda”

Emma recently commenced her role as a McKenzie Research Fellow. Her project, which is supported by Professor Therese Hopfenbeck and Associate Professor Joshua McGrane at the Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre (AERC) at the Faculty of Education, will be centred on understanding relationships between structural and process quality in secondary education within developing countries in the Asia Pacific region. Emma has previously worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge where she was involved in several projects including the Mastercard Foundation’s Leaders in Teaching initiative in Rwanda and Complementary Basic Education in Ghana. Emma has also worked as a consultant at the Education Global Practice at the World Bank, where she has co-led the development of Teach Secondary classroom observation instrument.

Insights from Leaders in Teaching Project in Rwanda

This talk, hosted by the Assessment and Evaluation Research Centre, will present an overview of the Leaders in Teaching project, funded by the Mastercard Foundation in 2018, with the aim to support teachers in the delivery of high-quality and relevant STEM education in Rwanda. Learnings from the qualitative phase of the project, as conducted by the REAL Centre at the University of Cambridge and Laterite Rwanda, will also be highlighted, particularly the use of teacher and student voices. This talk will shed light on how participants’ voices have enabled a localised understanding of teaching quality in Rwanda, a process that has been integral to all stages of the research process, from instrument design to the interpretation of key findings which have helped inform policy implications. Links with this research and the McKenzie Research Fellowship project will also be discussed.