Thematic Research Report series

Thematic Research Reports

241 complete publications covering the years 2005 to 2026.

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241 publications in this series

ICEQC-R-2010-11November 18, 2010

Thematic Research Report

Intersecting Disadvantage in Participation and Completion Indicators

A global comparative indicator study of populations, educational states, intersections and responsible interpretation

For executive summary, the material distinction is between the evidentiary task is therefore not simply to publish more categories. The institutional consequence follows from whether it is to construct distributions whose populations, definitions, uncertainty and limits permit fair public judgement. National education averages describe the centre of a distribution while frequently concealing the conditions of learners farthest from secured educational opportunity. A rising enrolment rate can coexist with persistent exclusion in a remote district, a poor household group or a population displaced by conflict or disaster. Gender parity at national level can coexist with disadvantage for poor rural girls and poor urban boys. A stable completion rate may hide increasing delay, repetition or withdrawal among groups whose educational records and population denominators are weakest.

Research category: Data and Indicator Research
Report archetype: Comparative Indicator Study
Geographic scope: Global

ICEQC-R-2010-10November 10, 2010

Thematic Research Report

Identifying Marginalisation in Education Data: Beyond National Averages

A global comparative indicator study of distributions, intersecting disadvantage and accountable use of disaggregated evidence

Review of executive summary is credible only where it explains a stable completion rate may hide increasing delay, repetition or withdrawal among groups whose educational records and population denominators are weakest. A proportionate conclusion must also recognise that the evidentiary task is therefore not simply to publish more categories. It is to construct distributions whose populations, definitions, uncertainty and limits permit fair public judgement. National education averages describe the centre of a distribution while frequently concealing the conditions of learners farthest from secured educational opportunity. A rising enrolment rate can coexist with persistent exclusion in a remote district, a poor household group or a population displaced by conflict or disaster. Gender parity at national level can coexist with disadvantage for poor rural girls and poor urban boys.

Research category: Data and Indicator Research
Report archetype: Comparative Indicator Study
Geographic scope: Global

ICEQC-R-2010-04June 6, 2010

Thematic Research Report

The Distribution of Trained Teachers across Rural and Urban Schools

A global comparative indicator study of location, preparation, assignment and effective instructional capacity

Review of executive summary is credible only where it explains a person on the payroll may be assigned outside a school, absent on the observation day, working part time or teaching a subject for which no preparation has been completed. A proportionate conclusion must also recognise that a teacher present at school may have fewer instructional hours because the timetable, school calendar, shift arrangement or non-teaching duties reduce contact with pupils. Conversely, one teacher may serve more than one class, grade or school. Any account of teacher supply that does not preserve these distinctions can report apparent sufficiency while children receive no dependable instruction. The ability of an education system to provide sustained instruction depends on more than the number of persons recorded as teachers. A funded post may be vacant.

Research category: Data and Indicator Research
Report archetype: Comparative Indicator Study
Geographic scope: Global