Improving Educational Efficiency and Equity: A User Manual for Adept Education
by World Bank Group (9780821384589)

The objective of the book is to assist education analysts and policy practitioners in their assessment of education sector performance, internal efficiency, finance, and equity. The book is a technical and analytical resource that takes full advantage of ADePT EDU, a software tool that allows for the calculation of education indicators from micro-level data. It provides technical definitions of more than forty indicators and step-by-step instructions for the preparation and analysis of indicators of internal efficiency and inequality, providing insights on analytical issues relevant to each data topic, and a summary analysis of internal efficiency and the major sources of inequality. It also assists users in the interpretation of results, the prioritization of policy issues, and in the generation of tables and graphs that can be used to bolster their own analysis. The book also includes a worldwide perspective of the inequality issues in education by analyzing the results of over 180 reports generated with ADePT Edu for availed DHS, MICS and LSMS.

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