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Researching Education Quality in Low-Income Countries: Politics, Processes and Practice

February 2011

Leon Tikly & Angeline M. Barrett (guest editors)

Special Issue of Comparative Education 47(1)

International collaboration and research capacity building: learning from the EdQual experience

February 2011

Angeline M. Barrett, Michael Crossley & Hillary A. Dachi

Comparative Education 47 (1), pp. 67-77. DOI: 10.1080/03050068.2011.541674

Conceptualising gender equality in research on education quality

February 2011

Sheila Aikman, Anjum Halai & Jolly Rubagiza

Comparative Education 47 (1), pp. 45-60. DOI: 10.1080/03050068.2011.541675

A Framework for Understanding Education Quality in Low Income Countries (182.1 kB)

November 2010

Leon Tikly

This presentation sets out EdQual's framework for analysing quality.

Overview of EdQual Research and Key Policy Messages (495.2 kB)

November 2010

Leon Tikly

This presentation provides a brief introduction to EdQual's research and key policy messages from the last five years.

The Case for Longitudinal Datasets (158.2 kB)

November 2010

Sally Thomas and Massoud Salim

This presentation looks at the disadvantages of traditional measurements of quality and makes the case for a longitudinal or 'value added' approach.

WP 27: Towards a framework for understanding the quality of education. (951.5 kB)

November 2010

Leon Tikly

This working paper sets out the evolution of the overall approach and framework for researching the quality of education in Africa.

PB 10: A good quality education arises from interaction between three enabling environments: policy, the school, and the home and community. (540.5 kB)

November 2010

Professor Leon Tikly.

This policy brief establishes a model for good quality education. It prioritises context in any situation but suggests that quality education arises from interaction between three key environments.

PB 8: Research Capacity Building: Learning from the EdQual RPC. (536.8 kB)

November 2010

Dr. Angeline Barrett, Professor Michael Crossley and Dr. Hillary Dachi.

This policy brief looks at the work of EdQual as a large research consortia and uses it to demonstrate how such a project can create new opportunities for Southern research engagement and leadership, ensuring that research meets southern knowledge needs and building capacity as an integral part of the research process.

WP 26: International Partnerships, collaboration and capacity building in educational research: The EdQual experience. (563.5 kB)

November 2010

Angeline M. Barrett, Michael Crossley & Hillary A. Dachi

This article reflects critically on the experience of a research consortium made up of academic institutions in UK and sub-Saharan Africa. It analyses participation in setting the research agenda, distribution of leadership and forms of capacity building within the consortium.

WP 24: Which in and out of school factors explain variations in learning across different socio economic groups? Findings from South Africa. (1.1 MB)

November 2010

Michèle Smith

The work presented here investigates which pupil background, school context and school resources (human and physical) factors affect individual pupil academic attainment by concentrating on developing separate multi-level models for individual learners of similar socio-economic status.

Researching the Quality of Education in Low Income Countries: Issues of theory and method (555.4 kB)

June 2010

Leon Tikly

Paper presented at XIV World Congress, World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES): 'Bordering, re-bordering and new possibilities in education and society'. Istanbul, 14-18 June 2010.

New Possibilities for International Partnerships, Collaboration and Capacity Building in Educational Research (187.0 kB)

June 2010

Angeline M. Barrett, Michael Crossley, Hillary Dachi

Paper presented at XIV World Congress, World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES): 'Bordering, re-bordering and new possibilities in education and society'. Istanbul, 14-18 June 2010.

'Researching quality across borders: the EdQual experience' (72.2 kB)

June 2010

Rita Chawla Duggan, Angeline Barrett

Proposal for Symposium on Theme: Demystifying Quality in Education at the XIV World Congress, World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES): 'Bordering, re-bordering and new possibilities in education and society'. Istanbul, 14-18 June 2010.

Education Quality: Research Priorities and Approaches in the Global Era

April 2010

Angeline M.Barrett, Leon Tikly

In Dimitris Mattheou (Ed.) Changing Educational Landscapes: Educational policies, schooling systems and Higher Education – a Comparative Perspective. Dordrecht: Springer. pp. 185-206.

Critical reflections from a partnership in progress: The case of EdQual

December 2008

Angeline M. Barrett, with Jolly Rubagiza and Alphonse Uworwabayeho

In Norrag News 41: 76-78.

The New Regionalism in African Education: Possibilities and Limitations for Developing South-South Collaboration

December 2008

Leon Tikly, Hillary Dachi

In Chisholm, L. & Steiner-Khamsi, G (Eds.), South-South Co-operation and Transfer in Education and Development. Teachers College Press.

WP 12: Teacher Empowerment through collaborative action research: concepts, possibilities and challenges (462.4 kB)

February 2008

Anjum Halai, with Sherwin Rodrigues & Tauseef Akhlaq

This working paper focuses on collaborative action research (CAR) as an approach to teacher empowerment, and issues emerging from experiences with CAR in Pakistan in EdQual’s Implementing Curriculum Change project. Field evidence shows CAR is an ethically and technically sound approach to knowledge generation and change.

Ethics Dilemmas in Qualitative Research

December 2006

Anjum Halai

HEC News and Views. Monthly magazine of the Higher Education Commission Pakistan.

WP 4: Ethics in qualitative research: issues and challenge (315.1 kB)

November 2006

Anjum Halai

This working paper identifies five key principles of ethical research around consent, confidentiality, anonymity, harm and reciprocity, discussing their application in EdQual’s project Implementing Curriculum Change, and reflecting on issues of power, empowerment and ownership in such participatory action research.

EdQual - summary of the research programme

November 2006

Angeline Barrett

UKFIET Newsletter Issue 4, November 2006. p.4.