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The Peruvian teacher in-service training program and its effects on student achievement
(Maastricht University, 2017)This paper assesses the impact of the Peruvian Ministry of Education teacher in-service training program (henceforth the program) on student achievement. Given the importance the Ministry attaches to interventions to ... -
The Policy Impact of PISA : An Exploration of the Normative Effects of International Benchmarking in School System Performance
(OECD, 2012)Little research has been done into how the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) affect national educational reform and policy-making. This paper examines the normative impact of PISA by ... -
The Privatization of Education in Developing Countries : Evidence and Policy Implications
(UNESCO, 2015)This working paper reviews key findings from empirical research on the effects of specific modes of privatization of the school provision, particularly in developing countries. The overall question is: can the common good ... -
The Promise of Early Childhood Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(BID, 2010)Early childhood development outcomes play an important role throughout a person's life, affecting one's income-earning capacity and productivity, longevity, health, and cognitive ability. The deleterious effects of poor ... -
The Promise of Preschool in Africa : A Randomized Impact Evaluation of Early Childhood Development in Rural Mozambique
(World Bank, 2012-02-06)We find that primary school enrollment rates increase significantly in treatment communities. Children who attended preschool are 24% more likely to be enrolled in primary school at endline compared to the control group, ... -
The Psychometric Properties of Child Care Quality Measures in Ecuador : Lessons for Monitoring Process Variables at Scale
(BID, 2016-10)This paper analyzes four instruments that are widely used to measure the quality of centers serving children ages 0 to 36 months - the CLASS, the ITERS-R, the CC-IT-HOME, and the MITRCC – and that were administered to a ... -
The Quality Factor : Strengthening National Data to Monitor Sustainable Development Goal 4. SDG 4 Data Digest 2017
(UNESCO, 2017)Section 1 examines the new SDG 4 monitoring framework and defines the global and thematic levels of monitoring education. It takes the reader through recent events and processes that culminated in the development of a ... -
The Ranking Game
(John Wiley & Sons, 2014)In December 2011, the journal Science published the information that two Saudi- Arabian universities were massively recruiting highly-cited research stars from Cambridge, Harvard & Co. who had made it to the ISI list of ... -
The Right Skills for the Job? Rethinking Training Policies for Workers
(World Bank, 2012)This book addresses the question of how to build and upgrade job relevant skills. Specifically, the authors focus on three types of training programs relevant for individuals who are leaving formal general schooling or are ... -
The Road to Academic Excellence : The Making of World-Class Research Universities
(World Bank, 2011)For middle-income and developing countries as well as some industrial nations a major challenge for building and sustaining successful research universities is determining the mechanisms that allow those universities to ... -
The Role of Beliefs in the Practice of Teachjing : Final Report of the Teachers Beliefs Study
(University of Texas at Austin. R&D Center for Teacher Education, 1985)This report summarizes the conceptual framework, Fodings, and methods of the Teacher Beliefs Study, an intensive, two-year program of research on the structures and functions of teachers' belief systems. Eight teachers in ... -
The role of curriculum in fostering national cohesion and integration : Opportunities and challenges
(UNESCO-IBE, 2014)Curriculum planning emphasizes that education should serve to enable society to achieve its needs and aspirations. One such need in Kenya, which has remained largely elusive, is national cohesion and integration. Research ... -
The Role of National Qualifications Systems in Promoting Lifelong Learning
(OECD, 2003-09)The aim of the OECD activity The Role of National Qualifications Systems in Promoting Lifelong Learning is to investigate how qualifications systems influence the volume, distribution and quality of lifelong learning. This ... -
The Science of Early Childhood Development : Closing the Gap Between What We Know and What We Do
(National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2007-01)The future of any society depends on its ability to foster the health and well-being of the next generation. Stated simply, today’s children will become tomorrow’s citizens, workers, and parents. When we invest wisely in ... -
The self as onwardness : reading Emerson’s self-reliance and experience
(FahrenHouse, 2013)Recientes estudios están empezando a abrir la obra de Ralph Waldo Emerson, a quien John Dewey una vez se refirió como «el Filósofo de la Democracia», hacia lecturas de tipo social y político. Este artículo, busca promover ... -
The Simple, the Complicated, and the Complex: Educational Reform Through the Lens of Complexity Theory
(OECD, 2013-12)This paper explores the nature of complexity theory and its applications for educational reform. It briefly explains the history of complexity theory and identifies the key concepts of complex adaptive systems, and then ... -
The Socio-Economic Gradient of Child Development : Cross-Sectional Evidence from Children 6-42 Months In Bogota
(BID, 2013-01)We study the socio-economic gradient of child development on a representative sample of low- and middle-income children aged 6-42 months in Bogota, using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development, a high quality test based ... -
The Sooner The Better But It’s Never Too Late : The Impact of Nutrition at Different Periods of Childhood on Cognitive Development
(Young Lives, 2017-01)Although it has been argued that undernutrition and its consequences for child development are irreversible after the age of 2, the evidence in support of these hypotheses is inconclusive. This working paper investigates ... -
The Square as a Figural Concept
(Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho, 2014-04)In the geometry research we operate with mental entities, which contain an image as an essential component. This helps us in thinking, but it often does not coincide with the formal definition. In many cases, flat shapes ... -
The State of Broadband 2015 : Broadband as a Foundation for Sustainable Development
(UNESCO, UIT, 2015)A large body of evidence has now been amassed that affordable and effective broadband connectivity is a vital enabler of economic growth, social inclusion and environmental protection. Although global mobile cellular ...