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Literacy and educational attainment
Does Horizontal Education Inequality Lead to Violent Conflict?
Ethiopia Education Inequality Profile
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Education Inequality Profile
Type: Profiles
Year of Publishing: 2015
Keywords: Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, inequality, educational attainment
Afghanistan Education Inequality Profile
Mean years of schooling by ethnic and religious group
Type: Other research documents
Year of Publishing: 2015
Keywords: Inequality, mean years of schooling, ethnicity, religion
This dataset contains mean years of schooling data by ethnic and religious groups, spanning 90 countries over the time period 1960-2012.
Literacy data: More, but not always better
Type: Research
Year of Publishing: 2014
Keywords: Literacy, Uganda, learning outcomes, learning assessments
For International Literacy Day, EPDC examined the usefulness and comparability of different types of literacy data across the globe. This policy brief discusses the analysis, with specific examples drawing from Uganda.
Literacy data: More, but not always better
Type: Research
Year of Publishing: 2014
Keywords: Literacy, Uganda, learning outcomes, learning assessments
For International Literacy Day, EPDC examined the usefulness and comparability of different types of literacy data across the globe. This policy brief discusses the analysis, with specific examples drawing from Uganda.
Examining the Role of International Achievement Tests in Education Policy Reform
Type: Research
Year of Publishing: 2012
Keywords: achievement, tests, education reform, student learning
This education policy paper was undertaken to identify, both for ‘developing’ countries and donors who support education in these countries, best practices in education policy reform that are believed to contribute to improvements in student learning outcomes with a focus on increasing equity in performance among student populations. This paper uses as a point of departure five country cases where student learning, as measured by scores on one or more international achievement tests, has increased over time.
Examining the Role of International Achievement Tests in Education Policy Reform
Type: Research
Year of Publishing: 2012
Keywords: achievement, tests, education reform, student learning
This education policy paper was undertaken to identify, both for ‘developing’ countries and donors who support education in these countries, best practices in education policy reform that are believed to contribute to improvements in student learning outcomes with a focus on increasing equity in performance among student populations. This paper uses as a point of departure five country cases where student learning, as measured by scores on one or more international achievement tests, has increased over time.
EQUIP2 Lessons Learned in Education: Student Assessment
Type: Research
Year of Publishing: 2011
Keywords: EQUIP2 Lessons Learned in Education: Student Assessment, lessons learned, student assessment
This paper examines the efforts of EQUIP Associate Awards in four countries to establish a national system for measuring student learning outcomes and the lessons learned from these experiences.
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