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Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 1 aims to ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning. Education: enables upward socioeconomic mobility. is a key to escaping poverty. helps reduce inequalities and reach gender equality. is crucial to fostering tolerance and more peaceful societies.
The poor quality of the education received by the majority in developing countries is of particular concern because of the potential role of good quality education in reversing—or reinforcing—economic and related inequalities.
- System-Wide Approaches
- Human Capital: The Virtuous Circle of Improving Teacher Quality
- Governance and Macro–Micro Level Bridges
- Availability of Resources
Most of the texts that we analyzed stressed the importance of considering the approaches to system-wide improvement taken in different educational systems. In some cases, critical views of single reforms (“silver bullet” interventions) or single school improvement strategies were used to emphasize the need for a system-wide focus. A common limitati...
The need to invest in human capital, especially teachers, was the most salient specific driver in the literature we explored. There were different views and approaches, some stressing the importance of promoting collaboration among teachers, others the importance of considering teachers' needs and expertise. Some stressed training, while others emp...
Changes in governance are also mentioned in the literature as relevant components of reforms aimed at system-wide improvement. Levin (2012) stresses the importance of paying attention to implementation processes. “Announcements followed by documents and a few training sessions will not change what happens in a large, complex system.” Within the abi...
Several authors also mentioned the importance of effective allocation of resources aligned with core goals and improvement strategies to support improvement efforts (Levin, 2012; Osmond-Johnson & Campbell, 2018). In some cases, such as New Zealand and Chile, funding was funneled toward disadvantaged schools to promote equity (Cox, 2004; Dinham et a...
Indicators for monitoring education quality. Education systems are typically analysed in terms of context, specific inputs, social or institutional processes, and outputs or outcomes. Indicators can be developed to measure issues that fall under each of these categories.
Sep 23, 2015 · What constitutes a quality education? Today, quality is most often measured through the OECD’s PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) standardized tests – and countries are ranked accordingly. The higher on that list, the better your education would be.
Sep 12, 2023 · 1. The learning crisis was made worse by COVID-19 school closures. Low quality instruction is a major constraint and prior to COVID-19, the learning poverty rate in low- and middle-income countries was 57% (6 out of 10 children could not read and understand basic texts by age 10).
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Dec 20, 2011 · What is the quality of education? What are the most important aspects of quality and how can they be measured? These questions have been raised for a long time and are still widely debated.
