Format:
1 online resource (254 pages)
ISBN:
9781280084256
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword, Prólogo, Avant-propos -- Executive Summary, Résumen, Résumé Analytique -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- Scope and Purpose of the Study -- Evaluation Questions: What Explains Educational Performance? -- Overview of the Study -- 2 Changes in Basic Education Since the 1980s -- The Education System Before 1986 -- The 1986 Reform Program -- FCUBE and Decentralization -- Budget -- School-Level Inputs -- 3 The Bank's Education Portfolio in Ghana -- Overview -- The Sector Adjustment Credits: EdSAC I and II -- Investing in Basic Education: PSD and BESIP -- The Role of Other Donors -- 4 The Bank's Impact on Education Policies and Outputs -- The Bank and Educational Reform -- Education Sector Outputs -- 5 Educational Performance Has Improved -- School Attainment: Higher Enrollments and Better Completion Rates -- Improved Test Scores -- 6 Causes and Consequences of Improved Educational Performance -- Better Inputs -- From Inputs to Outputs (Attainment and Achievement) -- From Outputs to Outcomes -- 7 Lessons Learned and Progress Toward the MDGs -- Progress Toward the Millennium Development Goals -- Lessons Learned -- Annexes -- Annex A: Test Examples -- Annex B: Budget Analysis -- Annex C: School Costs -- Annex D: School-Level Changes in Inputs, Management, and Methods -- Annex E: Tables Of School Quality Variables -- Annex F: Variable Definition -- Annex G: Analysis of Test Scores -- Annex H: Data on Educational Performance -- Annex I: School Attainment -- Annex J: Conditions Attached to Bank Credits -- Annex K: Education and Welfare Outcomes -- Annex L: Evaluation Approach Paper -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Boxes -- Box 1.1: Evaluation design: costs and benefits -- Tables -- Table 1.1: Coverage of data collection instruments.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821358849
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821358849
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3050735
