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-2014-06April 27, 2014

Thematic Research Report

Embedding Sustainable Development across Curriculum, Teaching and Institutional Review

A global quality-improvement study of system expectation, educational coherence and accountable implementation

Education for sustainable development should be expressed through coherent curriculum, credible teaching, fair assessment, staff capacity and institutional review. It should not depend exclusively on short projects, events or the language of commitment.

Research category: Quality Improvement Methods
Report archetype: Quality Improvement Methods Study
Geographic scope: Global

ICEQC-R-2014-02February 17, 2014

Thematic Research Report

Using Targeted Improvement Plans to Address Persistent Learning Gaps

A global quality-improvement study of diagnosis, implementation, equity and corrective review

Evidence concerning executive summary should establish gender parity at national level can coexist with disadvantage for poor rural girls and poor urban boys. The evidence must therefore clarify how a stable completion rate may hide increasing delay, repetition or withdrawal among groups whose educational records and population denominators are weakest. 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.

Research category: Quality Improvement Methods
Report archetype: Quality Improvement Study
Geographic scope: Global