Advancing Educational Inclusion Advancing Educational Inclusion and Quality in South East Europeand Quality in South East Europe

Daniel Pop

June 29, 2008, Skopje

The structure of the presentationThe structure of the presentation

Where we are in the survey processData analysis strategyDataset access, and other project related

documents and materials…Conclusions

Where we are in the survey processWhere we are in the survey process

A number of eight datasets assembled using bistadial random sampling of schools with primary education (rural/urban, and geographic regions)

We start the data analysis and report writing phases of the initiative

And the planning of local actions and national advocacy campaign

Last, we inquire about the opportunity to plan a follow-up, i.e. parents survey

Where w

e are in the survey processW

here we are in the survey process

School principle surveySchool principle survey

Provides insights into:• the nature and extent of stakeholder participation in

schools: which group participate and/or was invited to participate, with what results

• if present, the extent to which stakeholder participation is inclusive

• school principals' attitudes towards and beliefs about parental participation; what they perceive to be advantages and disadvantages of participation, reasons for and against it, resources they have or would need for participation, relevant partnerships

• in particular, their attitudes towards and beliefs about inclusive participation, i.e. whether in each stakeholder group, all members of that group can/do participate equally without regard to gender, ethnicity, disability, etc.

The school principle survey

The school principle survey

CoverageCoverage

Coverage

Coverage

Schools with teaching V to X

Schools with teaching I to XSchools with Schools with

teaching I to VIIIteaching I to VIII

Schools with teaching I to XII

Schools with teaching V to X

Schools with teaching I to IV

Schools with teaching IX to XII

Special schools

TVET

V-VIII pupils population among

schools

Levels of data analysisLevels of data analysis

Will be carried out at both:– National level – in the eight participating

countries using the individual datasets– Regional level – comparative analysis of

results and lessons learntThere is also the possibility to include

cross country comparisons in country reports

Levels of data analysis

Levels of data analysis

The audience of the reportThe audience of the report

The primary audience of the country reports are key educational stakeholders in the given country

The audience of the report

The audience of the report

Types of analysis to be performedTypes of analysis to be performed

Variable level descriptive analysis, lead to basic tables

Composites and associations among variables and composites at individual country levels

Inferential statistics

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cleaned dataset and syntax for analysis provided by July 15

Types of analysis to be

Types of analysis to be

performed

performed

The Index of school-parents communication channels

The Index of parental opportunities to support school activities

The Index of school support for parents to help their children in education

The Index of parental involvement in school level decision-making

The Index of barriers and obstacles in school-parents

Com

positesC

omposites

CompositesComposites

Building the compositesBuilding the composites Cleaning the data, for instance:– creating new variables responses are in

numerical agreement within the other attributes of the variable (i.e. eliminate non-responses and refusals),

– change the direction of the values so that higher values reflect larger extents or more frequent

Design a composition rule of the index using the scores of the new variable by combining the individual scores for the given variables, i.e. and additive index.

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Methodologies will be provided to country teams for each composite and other variables generated.

Building the com

positesB

uilding the composites

The Index of school-parents communication channels

Brief presentation of the

Brief presentation of the

initiativeinitiative

Variable Obs Mean Std. dev. Min Max

regular meetings school directors-parents 666 2.003003 .9306752 1 5

written evaluations of pupils to parents 667 2.755622 1.150249 1 5

information on curriculum 663 3.40724 1.214244 1 5

information on school events 667 2.761619 1.167051 1 5

information on school policies and regulations 667 2.761619 1.167051 1 5

school newsletter 658 3.806991 1.295401 1 5

home visits 664 2.426205 1.204807 1 5

parent surveys 665 3.066165 1.206838 1 5

"Open doors" days 629 3.72337 1.308879 1 5

Composite 670 2.86694 .7536867 .22 5

Cleaned country level datasets will be transmitted to partners

Protocols of handling datasets

Dataset access, and other project related documents and materials