Bangladesh - Education Development Index
The study aims at developing an Educational Development Index (EDI) for Bangladesh. The present effort is the crucial first step towards developing a comprehensive and composite index of educational performance in Bangladesh. While the broader ob...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Language: | English en_US |
Published: |
Washington, DC
2013
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/05/16282077/bangladesh-education-development-index-bangladesh-education-development-index http://hdl.handle.net/10986/12578 |
Summary: | The study aims at developing an
Educational Development Index (EDI) for Bangladesh. The
present effort is the crucial first step towards developing
a comprehensive and composite index of educational
performance in Bangladesh. While the broader objective of
the activity is to facilitate the decision making process
for resource allocation and policy directions, the primary
objective is to monitor progress in the primary education
sector for district/upazila comparisons for better decision
making processes. The exercise has been considerably
constrained by the lack of dependable robust data. This
report will make the policymakers aware of the need and
importance of collection of reliable and more comprehensive
information on a regular basis. The paper is organized as
follows: as the main goal of this report is to develop a
procedure for creating an Education Development Index (EDI)
for the primary education sector of Bangladesh, the
methodology is described in details with justifications of
several steps in the section two. Sources of information
and limitations are also discussed in this section. A
description of the primary education sector of Bangladesh is
given in section three. Section four presents the results
and also explains how these results should be interpreted.
Section five is the conclusion and recommendations. In
addition, there are several annexes that include detailed
results including upazila and district lists with ranks, a
technical detail of the Principal Component Analysis (PCA),
a step-by-step example of how an EDI can be constructed and
a brief description of the stakeholder workshop that was
organized at the beginning of the task to discuss the
methodology with relevant stakeholders. |
---|