Search results for "Quality of education"
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Cost and Financing of Education and its Impact on Coverage and Quality of Services and Efficiency and Equity in Sub-Saharan African Countries
2007
07052; In this chapter, we take mostly an international comparative perspective limited to Sub-Saharan African countries. First, we analyse first the macro picture and the public finance dimension, analyzing the systemic choices made in the distribution of public resources across levels and types of education. Second, we move to unit cost estimates and the factors accounting for their level in a given country and to their variation across the different countries of the region. Finally, we examine the implication of the choices made in the financial dimension upon outcomes (coverage and quality of educationl services), birnging issues of efficiency and equity into the analysis.
Key competences and plurilingual education in the Valencian Region (Spain) : a curricular analysis of Primary Education
2020
The purpose of this work is to study the level of transversality of key competences in Primary Education in the Valencian Community. To this end, an analysis of the Decree 108/2014 cur-rently in effect will be carried out, along with determining the frequency with which each competence is worked on during this stage of education. The data obtained will be interpreted bearing in mind plurilingual programs and, more specifically, the basis of the methodological needs that are pursued in CLIL, the approach to teaching non-linguistic areas through a foreign language. Generally, the findings point to a lack of transversality in some of the competences, one of them being the linguistic competence…
Monitoring of education system and the fifteen ages student achievement: analysis in the English-speaking countries with PISA 2009
2013
International audience; Education quality in developed countries is not just a question of public expenditure but is also related to educational policies (Hanushek and Woesmann, 2009). The classical economics theories (market competition) and principal-agent problem theory allow us to study agent's behaviors in education (Plassard and Tran, 2011). English-speaking countries have implemented the most advanced forms of control (for instance the NCLB in 2001 in US, and the Education Reform Act in 1988 in UK). Several studies (Hanushek and Link and Woessmann 2011) show that some kinds of institutional policies in education could have an impact on students achievement. However these studies don'…
Politique de recrutement des enseignants non fonctionnaires et qualité de l'éducation de base au Sénégal : quels enseignements vers l'Education Pour …
2011
In the early 1990s, like in many other countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal was also facing a decrease in the gross school enrolment ratio (GER). Despite the numerous measures taken for increasing GER at lower cost (creation of double shift classes, strengthening of multi-grade classes, creation of training schools which train teachers curriculum in one year instead of four as previously, increased recruitment of assistant teachers, etc.), this decline continued until 1994. In order to reverse this downward trend, the government recruited non-civil servant teachers (education volunteers and contract teachers). Compared to their tenured colleagues, these "new teachers" received a short d…
PEDAGOGICAL LEADERSHIP ASPECTS OF LATVIAN VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS’ LEADERS
2019
Leadership of vocational education institutions’ leaders is one of the leading resources in order to provide access, quality, competitiveness and sustainability of vocational education. The goal of the research is to analyse leadership of vocational education institutions’ leaders on the basis of the Charismatic, Emotional, Anticipatory, Professional, Participatory, Cultural, Formative and Administrative Dimensions (Gento & González, 2012) identified due to the analysis of scientific literature and normative documents in the context of the vocational education reform. The outcomes of the quantitative research testify that students assess the vocational education institution leaders’ lea…
Production et destruction de la compétence individuelle : le rôle de l'expérience professionnelle
2007
Cet article présente les résultats d'une recherche de l'impact sur le niveau des compétences individuelles des variables représentant traditionnellement le capital humain. La discussion se centre autour de la façon dont l'éducation et l'expérience professionnelle participent au processus de production de compétences utiles sur le marché du travail ou, au contraire, à leur obsolescence.Les données proviennent d'une enquête au sein de cinq banques au cours de laquelle nous avons demandé aux superviseurs d'évaluer les compétences de 600 employés (de guichet et chargés de clientèle). Il s'agit d'une hétéro-évaluation fondée sur une liste de compétences et de comportements.La thématique centrale…
Beneficios de la Evaluación Dinámica para la Prueba Final de Bachillerato
2014
Partiendo del análisis de las deficiencias detectadas en la Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad actual, este artículo realiza un análisis de los factores incidentales externos al examen, propone un sistema moderno de evaluación de lenguas como la evaluación dinámica, y estudia las ventajas y desventajas de su aplicación a la Prueba Final de Bachillerato. Las propuestas aquí realizadas se relacionan con el proyecto OPENPAU (FFI2011-22442) de un consorcio de 8 universidades para la revisión de la Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad.
Case of Latvia in the Evaluation of Adult Education: Issues and Solutions
2015
<p><em>In the context of research the evaluation of adult education is analyzed as a process and outcome, emphasizing the evaluation of performance; goals are related to the assurance of quality and sustainability according to learners' needs; competence indicators are methodology, motivation, communication and management; evaluation involves self-evaluation, external evaluation and consolidation.</em></p><p><em>The goal of the article is to analyze the experience of adult educators in the field of evaluation. Methods - analysis of literature and interviews with Latvia’s education policy makers and implementers in AQUAD environment.</em></p>&l…
Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impacton Education in Africa
2007
Primary school enrolment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, manycountries have launched large teacher recruitment programmes in recent years, whereby teachers are no longer engaged on civil servant positions, but on the basis of (fixed-term) contracts typically implying considerably lower salaries and a sharply reduced duration of professional training. While this policy has led to a boost of primary enrolment, there is a concern about a loss in the quality of education. In this paper we analyse the impact on educational quality, by estimating nonparametrically the quantile treatment effects for Niger, Togo and Mali, based on very informative dat…
Do school resources increase school quality ?
2010
The aim of this paper is to verify whether school resource factors have an impact on the quality of education. This latter is measured with the help of a unique database on student scores in international skills tests. The general difficulties inherent in this type of study are the possibility of endogeneity bias and measurement errors. After estimation bias correction, we show that improvement in the quality of educational systems does not necessarily require an increase in school resources. When an alternative indicator of the performance of educational systems is used, our results are confirmed. Consequently, one should remain cautious about recommending purely financial measures to impr…