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Literacy and educational attainment

Does Horizontal Education Inequality Lead to Violent Conflict?

Type: Research
Year of Publishing: 2015
Keywords: education inequality, conflict

Ethiopia Education Inequality Profile

Type: Profiles
Author(s): EPDC
Year of Publishing: 2015
Keywords: Ethiopia, inequality, educational attainment

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Education Inequality Profile

Type: Profiles
Author(s): EPDC
Year of Publishing: 2015
Keywords: Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, inequality, educational attainment

Afghanistan Education Inequality Profile

Type: Profiles
Author(s): EPDC
Year of Publishing: 2015
Keywords: Afghanistan, inequality, educational attainment

Mean years of schooling by ethnic and religious group

Author(s): EPDC
Year of Publishing: 2015
Keywords: Inequality, mean years of schooling, ethnicity, religion
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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
Author(s): Bernbaum, Moore
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
Author(s): Bernbaum, Moore
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
Author(s): Kuan
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. Comment

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