SABER Tools as a Framework for Education System Assessment
The World Bank Group’s Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative produces data on education system policies and institutions, analyzes and evaluates their quality, and provides decision makers and stakeholders with an assessm...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/769421492488982190/SABER-tools-as-a-framework-for-education-system-assessment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26463 |
| Summary: | The World Bank Group’s Systems Approach
for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative produces
data on education system policies and institutions, analyzes
and evaluates their quality, and provides decision makers
and stakeholders with an assessment that fosters structured
and informed policy dialogue on how to most effectively
strengthen education systems. During its tenure, SABER has
grown rapidly to become a key component in the design of
education programming across the globe, providing countries
with quality data and information. By generating a broader
knowledge base on education systems worldwide, these tools
are helping reform education at the country level while also
building a high-quality knowledge base for education reforms
at the global level. SABER materials, including framework
and other background documents, user manuals,
questionnaires, rubrics, as well as country reports and
analytical papers, are made publicly available to encourage
widespread use of SABER tools and publications, helping to
strengthen education policy development and reform. The
openness of SABER methodology and data also enables
stakeholders to adapt SABER tools in a way that is relevant
to their individual needs. The World Bank Group’s education
team in China, in collaboration with researchers at the
Shanghai Normal University, recently published a report ‘how
Shanghai does it: insights and lessons from the
highest-ranking education system in the world’, which uses
SABER as a framework to organize and benchmark education
policies across several areas of the education system. The
findings of the report and the related analyses were
highlighted during the global conference on equity and
excellence in basic education in Shanghai in May 2016. |
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