Browsing by Subject "India"
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A View Inside Primary Schools : A World Education Indicators (WEI) cross-national study
(UNESCO, 2008)The World Education Indicators' Survey of Primary Schools (WEI-SPS) offers unique insight into the classrooms of 11 diverse countries* in order to understand and monitor the factors shaping the quality and equality of ... -
An Assessment of the Young Lives Sampling Approach in Peru
(Young Lives, 2008-03)Young Lives is a longitudinal research project investigating the changing nature of childhood poverty. The study is tracking the development of 12,000 children in Ethiopia, Peru, India (Andhra Pradesh) and Vietnam through ... -
BRICS Building Education for the Future : Priorities for National Development and International Cooperation
(UNESCO, 2014)The Report pays close attention to skills development, especially technical and vocational education and training, which all five countries have identified as a vital ingredient of more inclusive growth and sustainable ... -
Can maternal education hinder, sustain or enhance the benefits of early life interventions? Evidence from the Young Lives Longitudinal Study?
(UNESCO, 2013)The document focuses on the complementarities that education can bring to the multiple and sometimes interrelated interventions, from government and other national and international organisations, in the context of ... -
Corporal Punishment in Schools : Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia, India Peru and Viet Nam
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2015)Globally the use of corporal punishment in schools is increasingly prohibited in law, yet in many contexts its use continues, even where outlawed. Proponents argue that it is an effective and non-harmful means of instilling ... -
Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Household Food Security and Child Anthropometry at Ages 5 and 8 Years in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam
(American Society for Nutrition, 2015)Background: Poor childhood nutritional status has lifetime effects and food insecurity is associated with dietary practices that can impair nutritional status. Objectives: We assessed concurrent and subsequent associations ... -
Decentralization of Education : Politics and Consensus
(World Bank, 1996-11)This book is designed to assist political and educational policymakers and practitioners in developing countries, as well as staff members of donor agencies and nongovernmental organizations and other outsiders who are ... -
Digital Access, Use and Skills Across Four Countries : Construction of Scales and Preliminary Results from the Young Lives Round 5 Survey
(Young Lives, 2018-06)This technical note outlines the procedures used to develop a digital module, administered to both Young Lives cohorts in the four study countries during the Round 5 household survey in 2016. The modules were based on ... -
Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2017-07)The authors present experimental evidence on the impact of a personalized technology-aided after-school instruction program on learning outcomes. The setting is middle-school grades in urban India, where a lottery provided ... -
Does household access to improved water and sanitation in infancy and childhood predict better vocabulary test performance in Ethiopian, Indian, Peruvian and Vietnamese cohort studies?
(BMJ, 2017)Objective: Test associations between household water and sanitation (W&S) and children's concurrent and subsequent Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) scores. Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting Ethiopia, India, ... -
Does Management Matter in Schools
(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2014-11)The paper collects data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated ... -
Education Trajectories in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam : From Early Childhood to Early Adulthood
(Young Lives, 2016-12)In this policy brief, the authors describe the educational trajectories of 12,000 children in total, across two cohorts: the Younger Cohort born around 1994 and the Older Cohort born around 2001, in Ethiopia, India, Peru ... -
Experiences of Peer Bullying Among Adolescents and Associated Effects on Young and Associated Effects on Young Adult Outcomes : Longitudinal Evidence from Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
(UNICEF. Office of Research-Innocenti, 2016)Being bullied has been found to have a significant impact on children’s physical and mental health, psychosocial well-being and educational performance, with lasting effects into adulthood on health, well-being and lifetime ... -
Exploring the effect of educational opportunity and inequality on learning outcomes in Ethiopia, Peru, India, and Vietnam
(UNESCO, 2013)The provision of access to good quality education for all requires not only improvements in access and quality, but improvements in the way access and quality are distributed between more and less advantaged groups. ... -
From Infancy to Adolescence : Growing Up in Poverty
(Young Lives, 2014-12)The analysis takes account of initial household circumstances and characteristics (such as being in the poorest or least-poor tercile in terms of household wealth) recorded in the first survey round, when Younger Cohort ... -
Global School Feeding Sourcebook : Lessons from 14 countries
(Imperial College Press, 2016)This sourcebook documents and analyzes a range of government-led school meals programs to provide decision-makers and practitioners worldwide with the knowledge, evidence and good practice they need to strengthen their ... -
Global Teacher Status Index 2018
(Varkey Foundation, 2018)This Global Teacher Status Index survey in 2018 (GTSI 2018) went to 35 countries (instead of 21 countries as in 2013) and administered a questionnaire to over 1,000 members of the public in each country. Specifically, they ... -
Implementing and Financing Education for All
(UNESCO, 2004)The report summarises the presentations and debates of the participants during the “International Seminar on Financing and Implementing National Education Plans”. Held in the Republic of Korea, from 17 to 21 September 2003, ... -
Implementing Education for All : Teacher and Resource Management in the Context of Decentralization
(UNESCO, 2005)This compendium summarizes the presentations and debates of participants in the international seminar on Implementing Education for All: Teacher and Resource Management in the Context of Decentralization, held in Hyderabad ... -
Intercontinental Evidence on Socioeconomic Status and Early Childhood : Cognitive Skills: Is Latin America Different?
(BID, 2013-08)This paper documents disparities in cognitive development— as measured by a receptive vocabulary test—between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before ...