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A801 Section 7October 24, 2012
Assessing the Performance of an Education System
Situating Ourselves in the Course (1 minutes) Discussion of the readings (10 minutes)
Reimers & McGinn, Informed Dialogue Kremmerer, Utilizing Education and Human Resource Sector
Analyses OECD’s Education at a Glance (2011)
Student section Leading (45 mins) Logical Framework (30 minutes) Housekeeping & Questions (5 minutes)
Agenda
1• Introduction to Comparative and International Education
2• The Process of Policy Analysis
3• Education Policy Options
Course Overview
1• Introduction to Comparative and International Education
2• The Process of Policy Analysis
Course Overview
– Week 6 – How Education Policy is Made
– Week 7 – Assessing the Performance of an Education System
– Week 8 – Policy and Program Evaluation
Summary
Case Studies from Informed Dialogue
Summary
Kremmerer
Summary
Education at a Glance
Student Section Leading
Program Theory
“Program theory…refers to the mechanisms that mediate between the delivery (and receipt) of the program and
the emergence of the outcome of interest. The operative mechanism of change isn’t the program activities per se
but the response that the activities generate.”
- Carol Weiss, Evaluation, p. 57
You will be reading a section of this book for next week.
Program Theory
For each program, there may be multiple pathways to the intended outcome.
GOAL: More 6-year-olds in school
From Program Theory to Implementation to Evaluation
Logical Frameworks can help you to organize:
Design Implementation Evaluation
Developed by USAID in the 1960s Vary slightly, but always include: 4 x 4
Narrative Summary, Indicators, Means of Verification, and Assumptions
Logical Frameworks
Project StructureObjectively Verifiable Indicators
Means of Verification
Important Assumptions
Goal:
Purpose:
Outputs:
Activities:(Inputs)
Logical Frameworks
Project StructureObjectively Verifiable Indicators
Means of Verification
Important Assumptions
Goal
Purpose
Outputs
Activities(Inputs)
IF
IF
IF
AND
AND
AND
THEN
THEN
THEN
Logical FrameworksProject Structure Objectively Verifiable
Indicators Means of Verification Important Assumptions
Goal:
Purpose: To increase the number of primary school graduates.Outputs:
Activities:(Inputs)
Logical FrameworksProject Structure Objectively Verifiable
Indicators Means of Verification Important Assumptions
Goal: Develop human capacity in XX country.Purpose: To increase the number of primary school graduates.Outputs:
Activities:(Inputs)
Logical FrameworksProject Structure Objectively Verifiable
Indicators Means of Verification Important Assumptions
Goal: Develop human capacity in Somalia.Purpose: To increase the number of primary school graduates.Outputs: By abolishing school fees, expect to see more children enrolling in primaryActivities:(Inputs)
Logical FrameworksProject Structure Objectively Verifiable
Indicators Means of Verification Important Assumptions
Goal: Develop human capacity in Somalia.Purpose: To increase the number of primary school graduates.Outputs: By abolishing school fees, expect to see more children enrolling in primaryActivities: Abolishing school fees.
Logical FrameworksProject Structure Objectively Verifiable
Indicators Means of Verification Important Assumptions
Goal: Develop human capacity in Somalia.Purpose: To increase the number of primary school graduates.Outputs: By abolishing school fees, expect to see more children enrolling in primaryActivities: Abolishing school fees.
All primary schools no longer requires fees.
Logical FrameworksProject Structure Objectively Verifiable
Indicators Means of Verification Important Assumptions
Goal: Develop human capacity in Somalia.Purpose: To increase the number of primary school graduates.Outputs: By abolishing school fees, expect to see more children enrolling in primaryActivities: Abolishing school fees.
All primary schools no longer requires fees.
Poll families to ask what fees exist.
Logical FrameworksProject Structure Objectively Verifiable
Indicators Means of Verification Important Assumptions
Goal: Develop human capacity in Somalia.Purpose: To increase the number of primary school graduates.Outputs: By abolishing school fees, expect to see more children enrolling in primaryActivities: Abolishing school fees.
All primary schools no longer requires fees.
Poll families to ask what fees exist.
Primary can be funded without fees.
Appendix
Sector Analysis: What is it?
Sector Review: summary of the state of the sector Sector Assessment: success of the sector in meetings
certain goals Sector Analysis: (most comprehensive) includes review
and assessment (above), and also describes sector needs, constraints, and opportunities for improvement.
(Kremmerer, 1994)
Sector Analysis: What is it?
Tries to answer questions relating to: External efficiency Internal efficiency Access & equity Administration & supervision Costs & financing
(Pigozzi & Cieutat, 1998)
Sector Analysis: What is it?
The contents of a sector analysis may include:1. Synthesis2. Economic & Financial Analysis3. History, Structure & Management Capacity4. Analysis by Sub-Sectors:5. Special Studies6. A list of background documents
(Pigozzi & Cieutat,1988)
Sector Analysis: Steps
I. InitiationII. Formation of the National Steering CommitteeIII. Determination of the scope of the analysisIV. Formation of the subsector teamsV. Formation of the technical analysis teamVI. Instrumentation and collection of dataVII. Preliminary analysis of dataVIII. Discussion of preliminary findingsIX. Collection of any additional dataX. Formulation of draft recommendationsXI. Discussion of draft recommendationsXII. Revision and prioritization of recommendations.
(Kremmerer, 1994)
Opposition sectors Support sectors Opposition sectorsExternal acto
rs
Sectorpositi
on
Anti-system Legal Opposition
Ideological support
Core support
Ideological support
Legal Opposition
Anti-system
The GovernmentSoci
al sectors
Political
parties
Pressure grou
ps
Political Mapping: An Example
Political Mapping: An Example
Stakeholder Map: An Example
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