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Global education policy, impact evaluations, and alternatives :

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3319751417

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3319751425

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9783319751412

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9783319751429

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9783319751412

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Global education policy, impact evaluations, and alternatives :

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the political economy of knowledge production /

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D. Brent Edwards, Jr.

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Cham, Switzerland :

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Palgrave Macmillan,

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2018.

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1 online resource

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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This book contributes to how we conceptualize and investigate the role and influence of knowledge production by international organizations within the field of global education reform. After elaborating on what it means to approach the intersection of these issues from a political economy perspective, the book develops a focus on knowledge production broadly to examine specifically the production of impact evaluations, which have come to be seen by many as the most credible form of policy-relevant knowledge. Moreover, it not only unpacks the methodological, technical, political, and organizational challenges in the production of impact evaluations, but also details an approach to critically understanding and examining the role that impact evaluations, once produced, play within the political economy of global education reform more generally. Finally, this book demonstrates the application of this approach in relation to a global education policy from El Salvador and reflects on the implications of this case for alternative ways forward, methodologically and otherwise.

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Springer Nature

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com.springer.onix.9783319751429

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9783319751412

Education-- Research-- Economic aspects.

Education-- Research-- Methodology.

Education-- Research-- Political aspects.

Education-- Research.

EDUCATION-- Essays.

EDUCATION-- Organizations & Institutions.

EDUCATION-- Reference.

Education-- Research-- Methodology.

Education-- Research-- Political aspects.

Education-- Research.

EDU-- 024000

EDU-- 036000

EDU-- 042000

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Edwards, D. Brent

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