Monitoring the Performance of Educational Programmes in Developing Countries - Education Research Paper No. 37, 1999, 190 p.
Table of Contents DFID Department for International Development EDUCATION RESEARCH MONITORING THE PERFORMANCE OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Roy Carr-Hill with Mike Hopkins, Abby Riddell, John
Lintott Serial No. 37 Department For International Development EDUCATION RESEARCH MONITORING THE PERFORMANCE OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Roy Carr-Hill with Mike Hopkins, Abby Riddell, John
Lintott 1999 Serial No. 37 ISBN: 1 86192 224 8 Department For International Development
DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION PAPERS
LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, ACRONYMS
and ABBREVIATIONS
EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
CHAPTER ONE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
1.1 LESSONS FROM PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS TO
USE PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
1.1.1 The Revised Code in the
Nineteenth Century
1.1.2 Earlier International
Attempts
1.1.3 The New
Managerialism
1.1.4 The Resurgence of Performance
Indicators in Education Systems
1.2 DEFINING AND DEVELOPING
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
1.2.1 Approaches to
Definitions
1.2.2 Developing Useful
Indicators
1.2.3 Who Should Choose and Design the
System?
1.3. USES AND ABUSES OF PERFORMANCE
MEASUREMENT
1.3.1 Uses
1.3.2 Abuses or perverse
uses
1.3.3 The (Limited) Value of
Performance Measurement
1.4. EXPERIENCES OF OTHER
AGENCIES/COUNTRIES WITH SYSTEMS OF PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
1.4.1 Australia
1.4.2 Sweden
1.4.3 Commonwealth
Secretariat
1.4.4 World Bank
1.5. SPECIFICITY OF EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
1.5.1 The Jomtien Agenda
1.5.2 Covering the Diversified Field
of Education
1.6. POSSIBLE FRAMEWORKS FOR
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
1.6.1 The DFID Context
1.6.2 A Skeleton for
Frameworks
1.6.3 Developing Indicators at
Different Levels and for Different Stages
ANNEX 1A: World Bank (1996)
Performance Monitoring Indicators: A Handbook for Task Managers
(Operational Policy Department)
ANNEX 1B : Problems of Measurement at
the Sectoral Level: Examples of Indicators and their Associated
Problems
ANNEX 1C: Collecting Data for
Individual Performance Indicators
CHAPTER TWO: CASE
STUDIES
2.1 Introduction
2.1.1 The Choice of Case
Studies
2.1.2 The Approaches to
Evaluation
2.2 MEASURING THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION
IN KENYA
2.2.1. Introduction
2.2.2. Schooling in
Kenya
2.2.3. VET in Kenya
2.2.4. Kenyan Data
2.2.5. DFID in Kenya
2.2.6. Concluding
remarks
2.3 PERFORMANCE INDICATORS IN THE ANDHRA PRADESH DISTRICT PRIMARY EDUCATION
PROJECT
2.3.1 The Development of the Project
from its Precursors
2.3.2 Quantitative and Qualitative
Studies: Project Planning Process
2.3.3 Qualitative Case
Studies
2.3.4. Indicators of
Implementation
2.3.5. The Overall Effectiveness of
the Project
2.3.6 Conclusion
2.4 EDUCATION PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
IN A NEW SOUTH AFRICA: A PROGRESS REPORT
2.4.1. Framework: Levels and Purposes
of Use of Performance Indicators
2.4.2. Current Educational
Initiatives
2.4.3. Indicator Development and
Use
2.4.4 Concluding Remarks
ANNEX 2A: Further Proposals for the
Development of Educational Performance Indicators in South Africa
CHAPTER THREE: BEYOND EDUCATIONAL
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: MOVING TOWARDS OVERALL SOCIAL
INDICATORS
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 BACKGROUND
3.2.1 Origins and purposes of systems
of socio-economic data
3.2.2 The Social Indicators Movement
of the 1960s
3.2.3 Approaches: A Thousand Flowers
Bloom
3.2.4 Factors contributing to the
decline of social indicators
3.3 SOCIAL INDICATORS
SYSTEMS
3.3.1 Early Examples in the
Seventies
3.3.2 Basic Needs
Approach
3.3.3 Moving Towards the
Individual
3.3.4 Conclusion
3.4 COMPOSITE QUALITY OF LIFE
INDICES
3.4.1 The Human Development Index
(HDI)
3.4.2. Other Innovatory
Composites
3.4.3 Conclusion
3.5 DEVELOPING A MODERN FRAMEWORK:
MONITORING SOCIAL CONDITIONS TOP-DOWN?
3.5.1 A Framework?
3.5.2 Designing More Relevant
Statistics?
3.5.3 An Excess of Estimates, a Data
Drought
3.6 THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION UPON
HEALTH
3.6.1 Introduction
3.6.2 Brief Review of Evidence of
Possible Impacts
3.6.3 The Measurement Problem
in Evaluating Projects
3.6.4 Conclusion
3.7 THE IMPACT OF EDUCATION ON
EMPLOYMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
3.7.1 Current Practice
3.7.2 What Improvements Could be Made
in Indicators?
3.8 MONITORING BASIC NEEDS AT THE
LOCAL LEVEL
3.8.1 Some Basic Principles of
Indicator Construction for Democratic Monitoring
3.8.2 An Appropriate Local Information
Monitoring System
ANNEX 3 A: Opportunity Cost and
Valuations
ANNEX 3 B: Technical Problems in
Developing Indicators
ANNEX 3 C: VALUING HEALTH AND
MEASURING (UN) EMPLOYMENT
ANNEX 3 D: EXERCISES IN LOCAL
PLANNING
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