Global education policy, impact evaluations, and alternatives : the political economy of knowledge production /
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Preface; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Tables; Chapter 1: A Political Economy Perspective on Knowledge Production; International Organizations, Knowledge Production, and Global Education Policy; The World Bank and Knowledge Production; Impact Evaluations and Policy-Relevant Knowledge; Purpose, Argument, and Contribution; The Case of EDUCO; Introduction to EDUCO; EDUCO's Design9; EDUCO's Fate; Relationship to Previous Work; References; Chapter 2: Critically Understanding Impact Evaluations: Technical, Methodological, Organizational, and Political Issues
- Impact Evaluation Through Regression AnalysisImpact Evaluation Through Randomized Control Trials; Differences in Control and Treatment Groups; Unbiasedness Does Not Equal True Impact; Mean Treatment Effects Mask Variance; Lack of Generalizability; Technical Considerations; Hypothesis Testing; P Values and the Normal Curve; Reporting and Interpretation of Effects; Impact Evaluations and Organizational and Political Incentives; Organizational and Political Incentives; Cost; Data Mining; Conclusion; References
- Chapter 3: Situating a Critical Review of Impact Evaluations Within the Political Economy of Global Education Reform: Definition and MethodDefinition; Methods: Putting Knowledge in Its Place; Data Collection; Data Analysis; References; Chapter 4: The Case of EDUCO: Political-Economic Constraints and Organizational Dynamics; Structural Transformation During a Civil War; Organizational Dynamics and EDUCO's Emergence; References; Chapter 5: Impact Evaluations of EDUCO: A Critical Review
- Study 1. World Bank. (1994). El Salvador: Community Education Strategy: Decentralized School Management. Washington, DC: The World BankStudy 2. Umanzor et al. (1997). El Salvador's EDUCO Program: A First Report on Parents' Participation in School-Based Management. Working Paper Series on Impact Evaluation of Education Reforms, No. 4. Washington, DC: World Bank; Study 3. Jimenez, E., & Sawada, Y. (1999). Do Community-Managed Schools Work? An Evaluation of El Salvador's EDUCO program. The World Bank Economic Review, 13 (3), 415-441