SUB-TOPIC
System Strengthening, Sustainability & EMIS
Presentations | 8 April 2018
Implementing ECDE in response to policy change and research evidence in Kenya- CIES 2018 Presentation
CIES 2018 Presentation, given by Sam Ngaruiya. The Ministry of Education (MoE) with technical support from RTI International are collaborating with four county governments to pilot the Tayari ECDE programme.
Presentations | 8 April 2018
Kindergarten in Jordan: data for decision-making- CIES 2018 Presentation
CIES 2018 Presentation, given by Katherine Merseth and Manar Shukri.
Presentations | 7 April 2018
Making evidence-based decisions: the illusory quest for rigour and certainty- CIES 2018 Presentation
CIES 2018 Presentation, given by Matthew Jukes. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been used increasingly in an effort to reduce uncertainty and improve rigour of impact estimates.
Presentations | 6 April 2018
The Early Grade Reading Barometer: Increasing access to and use of data on learning outcomes- CIES 2018 Presentation
CIES 2018 Presentation, given by Amber Gove and Helen Jang.
The Early Grade Reading Barometer offers a wealth of actionable Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) data to help to change the lives of young children. With 40 datasets from 19 places, the Barometer supports data transparency.
Occasional Papers | 23 March 2018
Universal Assessment and the Bottom of the Pyramid
While the SDGs now officially call for global reporting on learning outcomes, many institutions and scholars had noticed, at least since the mid-2000s, that many children were not learning much, and were starting to respond by, as a first step, advocating and developing assessments that, they felt,
Briefs | 19 March 2018
IE Selected Publications (2015 - 2018)
This is a list of select peer-reviewed publications by International Education staff between 2015 and 2018. For some of the publications, links to information about the documents and related resources can be found on this websiate. Where possible, the DOI has been included in the attached brief.
Publications | 8 March 2018
Worldwide Inequality and Poverty in Cognitive Results: Cross-sectional Evidence and Time-based Trends
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for education represent a major departure from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - at least if educational leaders act seriously in their pursuit - in at least two important respects.
First, the goals now pertain to learning outcomes.
Briefs | 11 October 2017
Primary 1 Repetition and Pre-Primary Education in Uganda (Research Brief)
As a result of Universal Primary Education (UPE) and reform efforts, primary school enrollment in Uganda doubled from 2.9 million in 1995 to 5.8 million by 1998. By 2016, enrollment had reached 8.3 million.
Briefs | 19 July 2017
Weakest Part of Poorly-Performing Educational Systems: An Argument for Focus on “Teaching at the Right Level” and Improved Foundation-Year Performance
n roughly thirty-five to forty countries that are expanding education very quickly, experts have noticed that learning problems originating in the earliest grades are showing as a massive over-enrolment.
Occasional Papers | 25 May 2017
A Practical Approach to In-Country Systems Research
This background paper was written for the RISE Program. This paper was written to contribute to the discussio of how RISE approaches the challenge of research into systems change.