Survey of teachers in pre-primary education (STEPP): lessons from the implementation of the pilot study and field trial of international survey instruments

The UNESCO Survey of Teachers in Pre-primary Education (STEPP) is the first international survey for low- and middle-income countries and aims to reshape pre-primary education by bringing meaningful improvements to the quality of the teaching workforce. Launched in 2016, STEPP is an OECD-UNESCO Joint Initiative in support of the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 4.2 on early childhood care and education (ECCE). It seeks to generate a better understanding of the situations and needs of pre-primary education personnel and to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement, which will inform policy discussions and measures to strengthen the quality of pre-primary teachers’ work. This publication presents the achievements and lessons learned from the first phase of the STEPP project which included the participation of the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Indonesia, Namibia, the Philippines, Togo and Viet Nam.