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Knipe, Sally – Educational Practice and Theory, 2022
This article presents a descriptive, critical analysis of the comparability of information concerning students, teachers, and school resources gathered by organisations within government jurisdiction, and the pitfalls for the unwary researcher using government data banks. Differences in the method of compiling information about citizens, and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Data Collection, Data Analysis
Hartong, Sigrid; Piattoeva, Nelli – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
This paper contributes to a growing body of research on the increasing datafication of schooling, which has become a salient topic in comparative education and education policy research. Specifically, we address the rising scholarly concern about the meaning of (comparing) contexts as bounded localities facing an increasingly fluid and generative…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Standardized Tests
OECD Publishing, 2016
Digitalisation, globalisation, demographic shifts and other changes in work organisation are constantly reshaping skill needs. This can lead to persistent skill shortages and mismatch which are costly for individuals, firms and society in terms of lost wages and lower productivity and growth. These costs can be reduced through better assessment…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Skill Analysis, Needs Assessment, Labor Market
OECD Publishing, 2016
This report reviews the collection, availability and quality of system-level data and metadata on education from countries participating in the PISA for Development project: Cambodia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Senegal and Zambia. PISA for Development aims to increase low income countries' use of PISA assessments for monitoring progress towards…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Data Collection, Achievement Tests
Slater, Liz – CfBT Education Trust, 2013
Monitoring, evaluation, and quality assurance in their various forms are seen as being one of the foundation stones of high-quality education systems. De Grauwe, writing about "school supervision" in four African countries in 2001, linked the decline in the quality of basic education to the cut in resources for supervision and support.…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Accountability, Quality Assurance, Educational Quality
Mathies, Charles; Valimaa, Jussi – Tertiary Education and Management, 2013
Recent changes in European higher education have accompanied a strong desire and need by national ministries to have comparable data across institutions and a growing recognition from campus leaders that effective planning and decision-making requires reliable institutional data and analyses. This has induced changes and restructuring of duties…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Evaluation, Governance, Data Analysis

Emmanuel, Patrick A.M. – International Social Science Journal, 1980
Problems of research and data collection in the West Indies include that territories without campuses are smaller and poorer, generally have no indigenous social science personnel so that research has to be undertaken by people unfamiliar with the environment, and that responses to interviews tend to be particularly unreliable because people are…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Huelskamp, Robert M. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1993
Describes Sandia National Laboratories' wide-ranging analysis of local, state, and national education systems. On most measures (dropout and retention rates, standardized test scores, higher education enrollment, education spending, international comparisons, educator status, and work-force skills), lab found steady or slight improvement. Schools…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Data Collection, Dropout Rate, Education Work Relationship
Morrisson, Christian; Murtin, Fabrice – Centre for the Economics of Education (NJ1), 2009
Global economic transformations have never been as dramatic as in the twentieth century. Most countries have experienced radical changes in the standards of income per capita, technology, fertility, mortality, income inequality and the extent of democracy in the course of the past century. It is the goal of many disciplines--economics, history,…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Educational Attainment, Demography, Global Approach
Beishuizen, Jos; Van Boxel, Patris; Banyard, Philip; Twiner, Alison; Vermeij, Helle; Underwood, Jean – European Journal of Education, 2006
This article describes a comparative study of the introduction of student portfolios in two departments of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Nottingham Trent University in the UK. Portfolios are designed to facilitate effective management of lifelong learning, to provide a record of achievements and to encourage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Portfolios (Background Materials), Higher Education
Gilford, Dorothy M., Ed. – 1993
The Board on International Comparative Studies in Education monitors U.S. participation in cross-national comparative studies in education and provides advice to sponsoring agencies. This document results from the Board's consideration of studies that would enrich plans for international studies. What the Board believes to be the value of…
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Comparative Education, Cooperation, Cross Cultural Studies
Hunt, E. Stephen – 1994
The Comparative Database System (CDS) provides a means for coding and using data on U.S. and international postsecondary educational activity and behavior. CDS permits education-data users to obtain accurate and reliable comparative data on postsecondary education questions. This document contains a discussion of the development of CDS, a detailed…
Descriptors: Coding, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Data Analysis
Robson, Colin; Evans, Peter; Deluca, Marcella – 2000
This report presents an analysis of the statistics concerning the status of education for students with special needs in member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Special needs students are defined as those who have disabilities with clear biological causes, or who are experiencing learning difficulties, or who…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Wagner, Daniel A. – 1998
A critical need remains for a practical and low-cost methodology to bridge the gap between methodologies for assessment of literacy at the national survey level. At the program level, it must be able to be used effectively by those in developing countries with limited funds but major literacy problems. Etic (external, quantifiable,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy