Floods in Pakistan: Human Development at Risk - Barón, Juan D.; Bend, Mary; Roseo, Elena; Farrakh, Izza (World Bank, 2022)
This note assesses the effects of the 2022 floods on human capital in Pakistan. It focuses on the results of a Pakistan-wide phone survey that gathered information on the experiences of approximately 4,000 families with children ages 3 to 17.
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Non-financial rewards and job commitment among public secondary school teachers in Ogun State Public Secondary Schools - Bawalla, Oluwatoyin Gbenga; Omolawal, Ayodeji Samuel (Reality of Politics. Estimates - Comments - Forecasts, 2022)
The study examined the relationship between non-financial rewards and teachers job commitment in the educational sector in Ogun State, Nigeria. A survey was conducted on public secondary school teachers to examine the relationship between non-financial rewards (promotion, study leave and sponsorship, provision of long service awards) and teachers’ job commitment. A sample of 750 full-time teachers was taken. Thirty schools were randomly selected across the three senatorial districts of Ogun State. A structured questionnaire was used to elicit information on socio-demographic characteristics and types of non-financial rewards available to public secondary school teachers in Ogun State. The response rate was 90.2%. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to test the relationship between non-financial and teachers job commitment. The result showed that non-financial rewards are a strong determinant of job commitment for the teachers in the state public secondary schools. It was therefore recommended that government and other relevant stakeholders in the educational sector are to reward teachers adequately by making use of non-financial rewards.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Lowering Barriers to Remote Education: Experimental Impacts on Parental Responses and Learning - Beam, Emily; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia (SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022)
We conduct a randomized controlled trial with households of secondary school students in Bangladesh to investigate how parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and oneon-one phone learning support. We find that offering an educational service in a context where other barriers to take-up exist can still trigger parental educational investments by acting as a signal or nudge. These behavioral changes result in lasting learning gains concentrated among richer households, reflecting that the relevant behavior change—increased tutoring investment—is easier for them to implement. In contrast, when interventions do increase take-up, they have the potential to narrow the socioeconomic achievement gap. We observe that increased usage of the targeted educational service limits parental behavioral responses. This implies that learning gains in these cases are directly caused by the potential effectiveness of the services adopted. In our setting, remote one-to-one teacher support improves learning among students from poorer households, whereas receiving the free data package jointly with the app information has no impact on learning.

Hyderbad police bust racket selling fake degree certificates, 10 held - Buddi, Mahesh (2022)

Loss-of-Learning and the Post-Covid Recovery in Low-Income Countries - Buffie, Edward; Adam, Christopher; Kpodar, Kangni; Zanna, Luis-Felipe (IMF Working Papers, 2022)
We analyze the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lock-down measures on low-income countries. We focus on the impact over the medium-run of the degradation of health and human capital caused by the pandemic and its aftermath, exploring the tradeoffs between rebuilding human capital and the recovery of livelihoods and macroeconomic sustainability. A dynamic general equilibrium model is calibrated to reflect the structural characteristics of vulnerable lowincome countries and to replicate key dimensions of the Covid-19 shock. We show that absent significant and sustained external financing, the persistence of loss-of-learning effects on labor productivity is likely to make the post-Covid recovery more attenuated and more expensive than many contemporary analyses suggest.

Getting the most out of your SMS Survey: Experimental Results - Busara (Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, 2022)
Summary and Goal of the Study: Together with mSurvey we ran a study with ~9000 participants to test 1) whether we can collect useable and valid SMS survey data, 2) whether there are marked differences between the Busara pool and the mSurvey pool – different in demographics, recruitment method, and familiarity with SMS surveys, and […]

Developing Teacher Leadership and Teaching Practice for the Use of Formative Assessment to Improve Students’ Learning - Campbell, Carol; DeLuca, Christopher; LaPointe-McEwan, Danielle (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Global Experience with EMIS (unpublished note) - Center for Global Development (Center for Global Development, 2022)
Global Experience with EMIS This brief sets out a review of international practice on Education Management Information Systems (EMIS). High-income Countries High-income countries typically have data systems that are integrated and open. The public may look up individual schools online and see...

Final Report for Evaluation of RTT - Centre for Research and Integrated Development (Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe); UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa; Open Development and Education (OpenDevEd, 2022)

Teacher Rotation and Student Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from Uganda - Cohen, Isabelle; Dal Bo, Ernesto; Finan, Federico; Omala, Kizito; Schonholzer, David (2022)
This report summarizes an ongoing study of the effect of teacher rotation on student outcomes in Uganda. In the status quo, teachers are transferred (“rotated”) across schools at the discretion of district authorities. In randomized treatment schools, we incentivize teachers...

Council approves Data Governance Act - Council of the EU (2022)
The Council today approved a new law to promote the availability of data and build a trustworthy environment to facilitate their use.

Feed The Monster (US English) - Curious Learning (2022)

d-portal - d-portal.org (Development Portal (IATI), 2022)

EdTech for Ugandan girls: Affordances of different technologies for girls' secondary education during the Covid-19 pandemic - Damani, Kalifa; Daltry, Rebecca; Jordan, Katy; Hills, Libby; Evans, Laura (Development Policy Review, 2022)
Motivation This article discusses the use of educational technology (EdTech) in girls' education at PEAS (Promoting Education in African Schools) schools in rural Uganda during the Covid-19-related school closures. Purpose This article addresses a research gap surrounding the potential use of EdTech to support girls' education, focusing on the barriers to girls' EdTech use and how technology might be used to enhance girls' education in disadvantaged rural areas—specifically their academic learning and their social and emotional learning. Methods and approach A sequential, explanatory mixed-methods case-study approach was used. Quantitative exploration of a dataset of 483 Ugandan students, from 28 PEAS schools, was first conducted, followed by interviews with PEAS staff to elucidate the reasons and context behind the findings. Findings Findings show that female students are less likely than male students to have access to their caregivers' phones for learning. The form of EdTech that appeared to be most beneficial for girls' academic learning was radio; girls also had significantly more interest in tuning into radio broadcasts than boys did. Also, poorer boys were more likely to be influenced by SMS messages than wealthier boys. Apart from gender-based differences, students with more highly educated parents found SMS messages more helpful, and phone calls from teachers appeared to help boost younger students' self-confidence. Policy implications The findings suggest that policy-makers need to: carefully consider provision of education through multiple modes of EdTech in order to ensure that it reaches all students; ensure that caregivers are involved in the strategies developed for girls' education; make EdTech interventions interactive; and consider language in EdTech interventions. Given the gender differences which emerged, the findings are of relevance both to supporting the continuation of educational provision during periods of school closure, and also in terms of finding additional ways to support girls' education alongside formal schooling.
Keywords: Covid-19; EdTech; education; gender; rural Uganda

DHIS2 for Education - DHIS (DHIS2, 2022)
Leverage DHIS2 tools and regional HISP capacity to facilitate data use for improvement in learning outcomes and equitable access to education

DLA Piper Global Data Protection Laws of the World - World Map - DLA Piper (2022)

How to Design and Institutionalize Spending Reviews - Doherty, Laura; Sayegh, Amanda (2022)
Spending reviews refer to the process of conducting in-depth assessments of existing public expenditure in order to identify opportunities to reduce or redirect spending from low-priority, inefficient, or ineffective spending. They offer a systemic approach to ensuring that spending is aligned with the government’s policy priorities, is effective in achieving its intended objectives and is deployed efficiently. This How to Note outlines the various objectives of spending reviews and provides guidance on designing a spending review process, including the organizational architecture and roles and responsibilities of various stakeholders. It also discusses the various stages of con¬ducting spending reviews and mechanisms for integrat¬ing their outcomes into the budget process. This note draws on lessons and experiences from countries that have established spending reviews, while recognizing that this is an emerging area for further reform.

Knowledge Pack: Remote phone-based formative assessment - EdTech and LEeP team (2022)
Remote Phone-Based Formative Assessment Knowledge Pack (English)

Knowledge Pack: Assistive Technologies - EdTech team (World Bank Group, 2022)

Knowledge Pack: Cloud for Education. - EdTech team (World Bank Group, 2022)
Cloud for Education Knowledge Pack (English)

Knowledge Pack: Devices for education - EdTech team (World Bank Group, 2022)

Knowledge Pack: Digital Teaching and Learning - EdTech team (World Bank Group, 2022)
Digital Teaching and Learning Knowledge Pack (English)

Knowledge Pack: Innovation Ecosystems - EdTech team (World Bank, 2022)

Knowledge Pack: Learning Management Systems for Education - EdTech team (World Bank Group, 2022)
Learning Management Systems for Education : Knowledge Pack (English)

Knowledge Pack Procurement - EdTech team (World Bank Group, 2022)

Knowledge Pack: Teachers’ skills and skills frameworks for remote and blended learning - EdTech team (World Bank Group, 2022)

Knowledge Pack: Technologies for personnalized and adaptive learning - EdTech team (World Bank Group, 2022)
Technologies for Personalized and Adaptive Learning Knowledge Pack (English)

Knowledge Pack: Technology for literacy - EdTech team (World Bank Group, 2022)

Best evidence on impact of Covid-19 on pupil attainment - Education Endowment Foundation (EEF, 2022)
The EEF is an independent charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement.

The effectiveness of technology-supported teacher professional learning communities in emergency settings - El-Serafy, Yomna; Adam, Taskeen; Hassler, Björn (Future-Proofing Teacher Education, 2022)
Professional learning communities are becoming increasingly popular in emergency settings due to their potential to be a sustainable, scalable, and grounded modality for teacher professional development. In settings where formal structures of professional development are absent or disjointed, professional learning communities respond to the urgent need to develop quality teachers. Moreover, where teachers have experienced significant trauma, such communities offer highly valued spaces for socioemotional support. Increasingly, practitioners in emergency settings are moving towards using technology to support professional learning communities, either by facilitating them entirely online or by using technology for specific components. This chapter builds upon existing literature on the use of technology in professional learning communities, both globally and in emergency settings in particular. The chapter correlates such literature to findings from primary research that involved 280 practitioners of professional learning communities in emergency settings. We demonstrate the potential for technology to significantly increase access to and effectiveness of professional learning communities in emergency settings, while laying out significant barriers to implementation.

Pakistan Floods: Education Snapshot - 30 September 2022 - Pakistan | ReliefWeb - ESWG (2022)
Infographic in English on Pakistan about Education, Flash Flood and Flood; published on 30 Sep 2022 by Education Cluster, Save the Children and 2count other organizations

What We Learn about Girls’ Education from Interventions That Do Not Focus on Girls | The World Bank Economic Review | Oxford Academic - Evans, David K; Yuan, Fei (2022)

2022 Annual Review of Education Beyond Aid project - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (2022)

Teachers’ Skills and Skills Frameworks for Remote and Blended Learning Knowledge Pack - Freeman, Barbara; Raigosa Montoya,, Juliana (2022)

Prioritizing Learning During Covid-19: The Most Effective Ways to Keep Children Learning During and Post-Pandemic - Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (World Bank, FCDO, and UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022)
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Prioritizing learning during COVID-19: The most effective ways to keep children learning during and postpandemic. - Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (World Bank, FCDO, and UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022)

Education Management Information System (EMIS) - Government of Balochistan (2022)

The Promise of Inclusive Digital Learning in Kenya - Government of Kenya (2022)

Pakistan Floods 2022: Post-Disaster Needs Assessment - Government of Pakistan; Asian Development Bank; European Union; United Nations Development Programme; World Bank (2022)
Assessment in English on Pakistan about Agriculture, Health, Flash Flood, Flood and more; published on 28 Oct 2022 by ADB, EU and 4count other organizations

RwandaEQUIP - Government of Rwanda (RwandaEQUIP, 2022)
RwandaEQUIP A legacy of excellence in education The Transformation of Education begins with Teachers 2019 Nobel Prize-winning economist, Professor Michael Kremer’sground-breaking study announcing learning gains among the largest ever measured in international education. The impact of the methodology, underpinning RwandaEQUIP, is among the greatest of any rigorously studied intervention in emerging markets. Read the Full Study Here […]

EMIS – MBSSE - Government of Sierra Leone (2022)

South Sudan Schools: Ana Fii Inni - Government of South Sudan (2022)

Government Gazette - Government of the Republic of South Africa (2022)

Blockchain Explained - Hayes, Adam (2022)

2022 Global Education Outlook - HolonIQ (2022)
HolonIQ’s annual analysis of the global education market and expectations for 2022 and beyond.

Parents’ perceptions of secondary school students’ motivation and well‐being before and during the COVID‐19 lockdown: the moderating role of student characteristics - Hornstra, Lisette; van den Bergh, Linda; Denissen, Jaap J. A.; Diepstraten, Isabelle; Bakx, Anouke (Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2022)

Data quality check for hierarchical linear data with outliers - idinsight (2022)
How to implement a data quality check for pairs of variables displaying linear relationships.

World Employment and Social Outlook | Trends 2022 - ILO (2022)

Kenya's pioneering eLearning programme - iMlango (iMlango, 2022)
iMlango aims to improve education outcomes in maths, literacy & life skills for 180,000 children in 245 schools by delivering access to digital education services & content.

A Guidance Note for Teacher Wellbeing in Emergency Settings - Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE, 2022)

Promising Practices in Teacher Professional Development - Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (Teachers in Crisis Context, 2022)

Dos anos despues salvando a una generacion - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development; World Bank (2022)

Data Explorer | Open Budget Survey | International Budget Partnership - International Budget Partnership (2022)

What is blockchain technology? - International Business Machines (2022)

5 Problems with the Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy, 2022 - Jain, Anushka (2022)

The Political Economy of School Education in Post-18th Amendment Balochistan - Kakar, Rafiullah; Saleem, Muhammad; Sarwar, Bilal (2022)
Application of ‘political settlement’ lens reveals that education outcomes aren’t recording major improvements because elite interest is aligned with neither learning nor access. Instead, elite interest is aligned more around patronage politics. Education delivery is driven by short-term, clientelist, political objectives, which are in turn shaped by the highly fragile, exclusive, fragmented and personalized nature of political settlement.
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in Rural Afghanistan - Kan, Sophia; Fahez, Mirwais; Valenza, Marco (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Teaching and Learning Materials in Malawi - Kendall, Nancy; Samati, Madalo (Global Education Monitoring Report, 2022)

White Paper on Privacy and Data Protection - Khaitan and Co (2022)

Developing Pedagogical Abilities in Students through Introducing Modern Forms and Methods of Education in the Mother Tongue Teaching Process - Kochkorbaevna, Kurbanova Bakhtikhon; Hilola, Isaqova (International Journal of Culture and Modernity, 2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Opinion: EdTech promised a learning revolution — but didn't deliver - Kucirkova, Natalia (World Economic Forum The Agenda Weekly, 2022)
Education technology, EdTech, promised equitable learning for children worldwide. It has failed to live up to that promise, but there is still a chance.

Videos as a Tool in Teacher Professional Learning: How Do Videos Scaffold Teachers’ Understanding of the Behaviours of Students with ASD? - Lam, Cici Sze-ching (Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures to Help Teachers Support Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 2022)
Videos are often used in teacher training. However, when considering professional learning for teachers in supporting students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the manner by which teacher educators can make use of videos in professional learning has rarely been documented. On the basis of a model called ‘Fostering a Community of Learners’ (FCL), this chapter aims to show a case study on how a professional learning course for in-service teachers uses videos as a tool to train teachers in understanding pedagogies and handling students with ASD, thus providing a platform for teachers to discuss their common points of interest. Individual interviews were conducted to understand the process of video learning. Hopefully, this article will inform practitioners or teacher educators on the use of videos and case studies in assisting teachers to understand the needs of students with ASD. Implications focus on how scaffolding of knowledge of the behaviours of students was supported with the use of videos in an FCL cycle.
Keywords: Scaffolding; Teaching self-efficacy; Video learning

The Learning Passport - Learning Passport (2022)
A new solution designed to close the learning poverty gap, the LP is an online, mobile, and offline tech platform enabling high quality, flexible learning

M-Shule LEAD Toolkit: Learn, Evaluate, Activate, Data - M-Shule (2022)
M-Shule is an SMS knowledge-building platform that helps organizations deliver Learning, Evaluation, Activation, and Data tools across East Africa.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education: international evidence from the Responses to Educational Disruption Survey (REDS) - Meinck, Sabine; Fraillon, Julian; Strietholf, Rolf (UNESCO; International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2022)

Guidelines for ICT in education policies and masterplans - Miao, Fengchun; Hinostroza, J. Enrique; Lee, Molly; Isaacs, Shafika; Orr, Dominic; Senne, Fabio; Martinez, Ana-Laura; Song, Ki-Sang; Uvarov, Alexander; Holmes, Wayne; Vergel de Dios, Benjamín (UNESCO Digital Library, 2022)

Guidelines for ICT in education policies and masterplans - Miao, Fengchun; Hinostroza, J. Enrique; Lee, Molly; Isaacs, Shafika; Orr, Dominic; Senne, Fabio; Martinez, Ana-Laura; Song, Ki-Sang; Uvarov, Alexander; Holmes, Wayne; Vergel de Dios, Benjamín (UNESCO Digital Library, 2022)

West African Senior School Certificate Examination: Sierra Leone Results Analysis - Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education (2022)

Education Sector Plan 2022-2026: Transforming Learning for All - Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, 2022)

2021 Annual School Census Final Report - Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Sierra Leone (2022)

Education Statistics Report - Ministry of Education (2022)

School Level MEWAKA Implementation Guidelines - Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2022)

TCPD Supervision Guidelines - Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2022)
MWONGOZO WA KUSIMAMIA UTEKELEZAJI WA MPANGO WA MAFUNZO ENDELEVU KWA WALIMU KAZINI

Mwongozo Wa Kusimamia Utekelezaji Wa Mpango Wa Mafunzo Endelevu Kwa Walimu Kazinioutline - Ministry of Education, Science & Technology [MOEST] (2022)

Cyber wellness - Ministry of Education (Singapore) (2022)

Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy - Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (2022)

How Sierra Leone is betting on data to fight the impact of climate change on schools - Momoh, A; Atherton, Paul (Global Partnership for Education, 2022)
Data can significantly improve decision-making and allow for prioritizing interventions to benefit the most vulnerable populations. That’s why the ministry of Education in Sierra Leone is working with Fab Inc. to develop a web-based data tool that helps estimate and prioritize where new schools are really needed.

Let’s learn together’: co-creating mental health solutions with adolescents in Tanzania and Viet Nam - Myers, Christina; Samuels, Fiona (ODI, 2022)

Annexure W1 Explanatory memorandum to the division of revenue - National Treasury of the Republic of South Africa (2022)

Teachers Co-creating for Teachers: Design and Implementation of an Online Teacher Professional Development Course in Sub-Saharan Africa - Negeze, Lucian Vumilia; Iyer, Sridhar (Global Perspectives on Educational Innovations for Emergency Situations, 2022)

Open Data Handbook - Open Data Handbook (2022)

Open Data Punjab - Open Data Punjab (2022)

OpenEMIS – Better data. Better education - OpenEMIS (2022)

Improving Enrollment and Learning Through Videos and Mobiles: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria by Victor Orozco-Olvera, Ericka G. Rascon-Ramirez :: SSRN - Orozco-Olvera, Victor; Rascon-Ramirez, Ericka G. (2022)

GDP per capita in England - Our World in Data (Our World in Data, 2022)
Adjusted for inflation and measured in British Pounds in 2013 prices

A Literature Review of Digital Literacy over Two Decades - Peng, Danhua; Yu, Zhonggen (2022)
A Literature Review of Digital Literacy over Two Decades: The COVID-19 pandemic has forced online learning to be a “new normal” during the past three years, which highly emphasizes students’ improved digital literacy. This study aims to present a literature review of students’ digital literacy. Grounded on about twenty journal articles and other related publications from the Web of Science Core Collection, this paper focused on the definition of digital literacy; the factors affecting students’ digital literacy (age, gender, family socioeconomic status, and parent’s education level); the relationship between students’ digital literacy and their self-control, technostress, and engagement; and the three approaches to gauge the level of students’ digital literacy. The study also provided some advice for educators and policymakers. Finally, the limitations and implications were presented.

Basic Education Statistics, Tanzania - President's Office, Regional Administration and Local Government (President’s Office- Regional and Local Government [PO-RALG], 2022)

National development delivers: And how! And how? - Pritchett, Lant (Economic Modelling, 2022)
Core dual ideas of early development, economics and practice, were that (a) national development was a four-fold transformation of countries towards: (i) a more productive economy, (ii) a more responsive state, (iii) more capable administration, and (iv) a shared identity and equal treatment of citizens and that (b) this four-fold transformation of national development would lead to higher levels of human wellbeing. The second is strikingly correct: development delivers. National development is empirically necessary for high wellbeing (no country with low levels of national development has high human wellbeing) and also empirically sufficient (no country with high national development has low levels of human wellbeing). Three measures of national development: productive economy, capable administration, and responsive state, explain (essentially) all of the observed variation in an omnibus indicator of wellbeing based on over 58 distinct indicators, the Social Progress Index. How national development delivers on wellbeing varies, in three ways. One, economic growth is much more important for achieving wellbeing at low versus high levels of income. Two, economic growth matters more for “basic needs” than for other dimensions of wellbeing (like social inclusiveness or environmental quality). Three, state capability matters more for wellbeing outcomes that depend on public production than on private goods (and for some wellbeing indicators, like physical safety, for which growth doesn’t matter at all). While these findings may seem too common sense to be worth a paper, national development--and particularly economic growth—is, strangely, under severe challenge as an important and legitimate objective of action within the development industry.

Portal Rasmi Jabatan Penyiaran Malaysia - Radio Televisyen Malaysia (Nama Agensi, 2022)

From Emergency Remote Teaching to Effective Online Learning: A Teacher Professional Development Case Study from Higher Education in India - Raina, Ashutosh; Rane, Archana; Ngeze, Lucian; Murthy, Sahana; Iyer, Sridhar (Global Perspectives on Educational Innovations for Emergency Situations, 2022)
This chapter describes the design and implementation of an educational solution to prepare teachers and instructors in India for various pedagogical and technological transitions during the pandemic. The goal was to move from an emergency remote teaching approach towards adopting effective online teaching strategies. This solution had to address the key challenge of remote professional development for the online medium while accounting for the diversity in the Indian educational context, taking into account varying needs of learners, teachers, institutions, geography, availability of technology, prior experience, and goals. The solution had two parts: i) a web-based repository for self-learning, consisting of research-based principles, pedagogical strategies and tools for effective design and development of online courses, and ii) synchronous interactive workshops to support instructors in practical implementation of the principles, strategies and tools to make domain specific instruction design decisions. Overall, emphasis was paid to learner engagement, diverse learner needs, peer learning, providing effective feedback and meaningful interaction. The resource repository and workshops guided instructors through making decisions and evaluating trade-offs in their context. This article also provides a brief analysis of the data collected from workshops on teachers’ preparedness at effective integration of technology, and the impact of the OTeach resource repository, which can found at Google Sites and has 25,000+ visitors so far. The article concludes with reflections and recommendations based on our experience.
Keywords: Effective online learning; Higher education; Research-based strategies; Teacher professional development

Language policy in Ghana and Malawi: differing approaches to multilingualism in education - Reilly, Colin; ResCue, Elvis; Chavula, Jean Josephine (Journal of the British Academy, 2022)
Despite substantial international evidence that children learn best in a language which they understand, language-in-education policies in much of Africa do not effectively accommodate the range of languages found in the classroom, instead prescribing dominant national languages and/or colonial languages such as English. Further, these language policies continue to reflect a monoglossic conceptualisation of languages and do not adequately account for the multilingual repertoires of individuals and communities. They do not reflect an understanding of the ways in which multilingual language practices could be harnessed for education. This article provides a comparative overview of the policy context in Malawi and Ghana, at the levels of legislation, practice, and attitudes. Through interviews, questionnaires, classroom observations, and classroom recordings in primary schools, we highlight the multilingual realities of educational spaces in each country. We highlight that, despite different sociolinguistic and legislative contexts, there are similarities between these contexts which emerge as important factors when considering multilingualism within education.

Kenya Digital Master Plan 2022-2032 - Republic of Kenya ICT Authority (2022)

Public Statement on the Status of Payments to County Governments FY 2021-2022 - Republic of Kenya National Treasury and Planning (2022)

ASIDI - Accelerated School Infrastructure Delivery Initiative - Republic of South Africa (2022)

DBE's National School Nutrition Programme - Republic of South Africa (DBE's National School Nutrition Programme, 2022)

Unit Cost Budgeting? (1/4) Marc Robinson Blog - Robinson, Mark (2022)

Improving Early Grade Education Across Kenya - RTI International (RTI, 2022)
Tusome focuses on four key interventions developed and proven to improve literacy outcomes in Kenya. Learn about the impact of this program.

Digitalizing Laos: Improving Government Transparency, the Business Environment, and Human Capital - Runde, Daniel F; Bandura, Romina; Lee, Rachel (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2022)

Schooling for All: Feasible Strategies to Achieve Universal Education - Sandefur, Justin (Center for Global Development, 2022)
This report debates the case for specific public investments in education in low- and lower-middle-income countries, drawing on evidence of what has worked not just in small-scale experiments but historically and in large-scale national programs. Its messages are intended more for economic policymakers than educators, as they speak to what can be accomplished with fiscal instruments (money) and where trade-offs must be made. CGD does not take institutional positions.

The Long-Run Decline of Education Quality in the Developing World | Center for Global Development | Ideas to Action - Sandefur, Justin; Le Nestour, Alexis; Moscoviz, Laura (Center for Global Development, 2022)

RBF Interventions in Education : Do they Increase Inequality of Outcomes? : A Literature Review - Schipper, Youdi; Pradhan (World Bank, 2022)
RBF Interventions in Education : Do they Increase Inequality of Outcomes : A Literature Review (English)

Scottish Local Government Finance 'Green Book' 2022-23 - Scottish Government (2022)
Scottish Local Government Finance Settlement 2022-23: Funding Allocation Formula.

Mother-tongue Instruction and Later Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Ethiopia - Seid, Yared (Applied Economics, 2022)
This paper offers empirical evidence on the effect of mother-tongue instruction in primary school on students’ later labor market outcomes. Moreover, it explores whether the effect varies by the duration of exposure to mother-tongue instruction. Since Ethiopia has adopted mother-tongue instruction after the 1994 Ethiopian education reform, many students who have attended primary school after 1994 are exposed to mother tongue instruction, resulting in a variation in exposure to mother-tongue instruction by birth cohort. In Amhara state, Amharic is adopted as medium of instruction both before and after the education reform. This is in contrast to other states in Ethiopia that have changed the medium of instruction in primary school following the education reform. Among students who have been exposed to mother-tongue instruction following the education reform, however, the duration of their exposure to mother-tongue instruction varies depending on the state in which they have attended primary school. This is because states in Ethiopia mandate students to transition from mother-tongue to English instruction either in grade 5, 7, or 9. Exploiting these two plausibly exogenous sources of variations (across states and birth cohorts) and using data from the 2013 Ethiopian Labor Force Survey, we estimate difference-in-differences model. Estimates from our preferred specifications suggest that mother-tongue instruction in primary school improves later labor market outcomes, but the size of its effect decreases with the number of years an individual was exposed to mother-tongue instruction in primary school.

Localización de la demanda insatisfecha de instituciones educativas. Una propuesta metodológica basada en sala de cuatro (4) años de nivel inicial en Argentina - Sendón, María Alejandra (2022)

Schools Data – Sindh Education Foundation - Sindh Education Foundation (2022)
SEF|Sindh Education Foundation government of Sindh Sindh Education Foundation (SEF), was established under the Sindh Education Foundation Act, 1992 as a semi-autonomous organization committed to educating and empowering children and communities towards social change by ensuring access to educational facilities and quality education. towards social change by ensuring access to educational facilities and quality education access to educational facilities and quality education.

Education Technology - Strigel, Carmen (2022)
Keywords: ⛔ No DOI found

Peer Facilitator Manual - Tanzania Institute of Education (2022)

Teach For Uganda - Teach For Uganda (Teach for uganda, 2022)
We are nurturing leaders who are committed to advancing equitable access to quality education in low-income communities in Uganda

Distance Learning and Teacher Training Strategies - Teacher Task Force; UNESCO (International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030, 2022)

Data Availability and Transparency Bill 2022 - The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia (2022)

A Proof-of-Concept Study of Can't Wait to Learn: A Digital Game-Based Learning Program for Out-of-School Children in Lebanon - Turner, Jasmine S.; Taha, Karine; Ibrahim, Nisreen; Neijenhuijs, Koen I.; Hallak, Eyad; Radford, Kate; Stubbé-Alberts, Hester; de Hoop, Thomas; Jordans, Mark J. D.; Brown, Felicity L. (Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2022)
Evaluations of education technology (ed tech) interventions in humanitarian settings are scarce. We present a proof-of-concept study of Can’t Wait to Learn, a digital game-based learning program that combines an experiential, active learning design with meaningful, competency-appropriate, and contextually relevant content. We assessed the feasibility of using this program to address the current education gap in Lebanon by implementing its mathematics component in basic literacy and numeracy classes (n=30) with out-of-school children (N=390) ages 10-14. We estimated changes in numeracy competency and psychosocial wellbeing and conducted focus group discussions (n=16) and key informant interviews (n=19) with children, facilitators, parents, and partner staff members to understand the lived experience, perceived impact, and implementation challenges of the program. Our findings support the feasibility of using ed tech programs to meet the needs of out-of-school children, as we saw significant improvements in numeracy, psychological symptoms, and selfesteem; positive reported experiences with the program; increased motivation among the children; and overall ease of implementation. Our suggested improvements to the game design and implementation model will support ongoing program adaptation and implementation, with the goal of increasing access to quality education for children living in humanitarian settings. Our findings will inform future studies that seek to conclusively determine the program’s effectiveness.

Di Website Resmi TV Edukasi - TVEdukasi (2022)

Complete the school census. Census dates. Guidance - UK Government (2022)
Find out when the school census will open for each term and what to do in unusual circumstances.

School census 2022 to 2023: technical information - UK Government (GOV.UK, 2022)
Technical specification and validation rules for submitting 2022 to 2023 school census data.

The Green Book: appraisal and evaluation in central government - UK Government (2022)
HM Treasury guidance on how to appraise and evaluate policies, projects and programmes.

Online Safety Bill publications - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament - UK Parliament (2022)
Documents, and debates for Online Safety Bill

Data Protection and Privacy Legislation Worldwide | UNCTAD - UNCTAD (2022)

Syrian Arab Republic: Access to Electricity and Humanitarian Needs - UNDP Syria (2022)

Crisis-sensitive teacher policy and planning - UNESCO (UNESCO, Norad, GPE, UNHCR, UNICEF, the World Bank, International Labor Organisation, International Task Force on Teachers for Education, 2022)

Guidelines for ICT in education policies and masterplans - UNESCO (2022)

High Stakes Assessment - UNESCO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics Glossary, 2022)

Leave no child behind: global report on boys’ disengagement from education - UNESCO (UNESCO, 2022)

Minding the data: protecting learners’ privacy and security - UNESCO Digital Library - UNESCO (2022)

Country Dashboard – Covid-19 Response - UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2022)

About RapidPro - UNICEF (2022)

Funding+Support | UNICEF Innovation Fund - UNICEF (2022)

How an adolescent girl helped her community fight COVID-19 - UNICEF (2022)
Studying at non-formal basic education centers established by UNICEF with funding from Government of Japan and support from Sindh’s authorities empowers gir

Jamaica pilot experience: Accessible Digital Textbooks that transform education - UNICEF (2022)
Accessible Digital Textbooks that transform education.

LACRO Covid-19 Education Response: Update 34 Status of School's Reopening & Learning - UNICEF (UNICEF, 2022)

MICS Survey - UNICEF (2022)

New digital application helps monitor student attendance in Sindh - UNICEF (2022)
The innovative system, funded by the European Union and supported by UNICEF, will help Sindh’s Education & Literacy Department prevent student drop out

Protecting children online - UNICEF (2022)
Every child must be protected from violence, exploitation and abuse on the internet

Pulse Check on Digital Learning - UNICEF (UNICEF, 2022)

Pulse Check on Digital Learning - UNICEF (2022)

Safer Chatbots Implementation Guide - UNICEF (2022)

Schools for more than 2 million children in Pakistan remain inaccessible due to devastating floods – UNICEF - UNICEF (2022)

The role of remote modalities in implementing mental health and psychosocial support programs and services in the education sector - UNICEF (2022)

Trends in Digital Personalized Learning: Taking stock of personalized learning solutions in low and middle-income countries - UNICEF (Office of Global Insight and Policy United Nations Children’s Fund, 2022)
Landscape review | Taking stock of personalized learning solutions in low and middle-income countries

Where Are We on Education Recovery? - UNICEF (UNICEF, 2022)

Who are we and how do we work? - UNICEF USA (UNICEF USA, 2022)
Who are we and how do we work? Advocacy means, literally, to speak up on behalf of someone in need. For UNICEF, it means speaking up on behalf of and with children to support their rights, ensure safe and healthy childhoods in safe and inclusive communities, and build strong futures with opportunity and hope.

Mobile: Resource Pack to Support Remote Learning - UNICEF; World Bank (2022)

Print: Resource Pack to Support Remote Learning - UNICEF; World Bank (2022)

Radio: Resource Pack to Support Remote Learning - UNICEF; World Bank (2022)

Gateways to Public Digital Learning: A multi-partner initiative to create and strengthen inclusive digital learning platforms and content - United Nations Transforming Education Summit (2022)

Thematic Action Track 4 on ‘Digital learning and transformation’ - United Nations Transforming Education Summit (2022)

Revised Pakistan 2022 Floods Response Plan: 01 Sep 2022 - 31 May 2023 - UNOCHA (2022)
Appeal in English on Pakistan about Agriculture, Climate Change and Environment, Flash Flood, Flood and more; published on 4 Oct 2022 by OCHA

An Overlooked Indicator of Edtech Quality: The Use of Learning Sciences Research - Van Nostrand, Parker; Noakes, Sierra; Shah, Zohal; Luke Luna, Christina (2022)

COVID-19’s impact on learning losses and learning inequality in Colombia - Vegas, Emiliana (Brookings, 2022)

2022 Data Breach Investigations Report - Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (2022)
Reduce risks with insights from the 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) from Verizon. Read the official report today.

Learning, Marginalization, and Improving the Quality of Education in Low-income Countries - Wagner, Daniel A.; Nathan, M Castillo; Lewis, Suzanne Grant (2022)
Academic publishing of peer-reviewed open access monographs

Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe - Walker, H.; Hennessy, S.; Pimmer, C. (Research Papers in Education, 2022)
This study reports on the adaptation and outcomes of a teacher professional development (TPD) programme in a rural Zimbabwean secondary school. The programme incorporated Open Educational Resources (OER), specifically OER4school materials, that were provided via tablet computers for teachers and students. A mixed-methods case study was employed to explore teachers’ perceptions, knowledge, experiences of interactive learning and teaching in relation to this TPD, as well as their perceptions and experiences of the role and value of using technology to support student learning. Video data from structured lesson observations were triangulated with teacher post-lesson interviews and thematically coded. The interviews indicated that all teachers demonstrated a change in mindset and a clear understanding of interactive teaching methods. However, the structured observations revealed that only half of the teachers were using these interactive methods. Teachers also emphasised the value of OER and tablet technologies in improving lesson planning and making classroom learning more authentic. The use of technology, as both a TPD medium and as a classroom tool, showed potential to enhance the quality of TPD and teacher quality. Yet more specific teacher development to support the interactive use of technology within the classroom would be beneficial.

Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe - Walker, Hannah; Hennessy, Sara; Pimmer, Christoph (Research Papers in Education, 2022)

Trialling open educational resources for technology-supported teacher professional development in rural Zimbabwe - Walker, Hannah; Hennessy, Sara; Pimmer, Christoph (Research Papers in Education, 2022)

Online safety: making the internet safer by tackling harmful content - WEF (World Economic Forum, 2022)
Delivering safe online experiences is essential for global businesses and individuals. Several stakeholders are collaborating to improve online safety.

A Landscape Review of ICT for Disability-inclusive Education - World Bank (World Bank, 2022)
Information and communication technology (ICT) tools can have a catalytic effect in advancing both educational access and learning outcomes for children with disabilities. Despite tremendous potential, a gap exists between technology advancements and their large-scale application in educating children with disabilities in low- and middle-income countries. This landscape review of ICTs for disability inclusive education by the Inclusive Education Initiative seeks to understand the current status and trends in the practice of educational technology (EdTech) and the use of ICT in improving the educational participation and outcomes of children with disabilities. The review explores what factors enable or restrict this improvement within the wider EdTech ecosystem.
Keywords: Access to Education; Access to Learning; Disability Inclusion; Edtech; Education Technology; Inclusive Education

Guide for Learning Recovery and Acceleration: Using the RAPID Framework to Address COVID-19 Learning Losses and Build Forward Better - World Bank (The World Bank, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, FCDO, UNICEF, USAID, UNESCO, 2022)

Knowlege Pack: Procurement - World Bank (2022)

Microdata Library - World Bank (2022)

Pakistan’s Floods are Deepening its Learning Crisis - World Bank (2022)

Two Years After: Saving a Generation - World Bank, UNICEF (World Bank, 2022)

Encouraging Community Action Against Teacher Absenteeism: A Mass Media Experiment in Rural Uganda - Wilke, Anna M.; Green, Donald P.; Tan, Benjamin (The Journal of Development Studies, 2021)
Chronic teacher absenteeism is widespread in Uganda, with approximately one-third of public school teachers absent on any given day. Absenteeism and other problems that arise in Uganda’s public education system are often attributed to a lack of public oversight and parental involvement. In an effort to develop a scalable method of encouraging community engagement on this issue, the present study assesses the extent to which entertainment-education videos increase willingness among Ugandans to take action against absenteeism. Working in collaboration with Ugandan screenwriters and local actors, we developed video dramatisations that depicted the problem of absenteeism and how parents mobilised to address it. We assess the persuasive effects of these dramatisations both under lab-like conditions, to gauge immediate effects, and in the field, to gauge effects two months and eight months after a placebo-controlled media campaign attended by over 10,000 Ugandans in 112 villages. Although the persuasive effects are weaker in the field than the lab setting, the former remain substantial even after eight months. The demonstrated ability of entertainment-education to change public views on this issue sets the stage for policy experiments that test whether entertainment-education campaigns have downstream effects on absenteeism and public school performance more generally.
Keywords: Africa; access to education; education quality

Teachers’ adoption of an open and interactive e-book for teaching K-12 students Artificial Intelligence: a mixed methods inquiry - Zhang, Xiangling; Tlili, Ahmed; Shubeck, Keith; Hu, Xiangen; Huang, Ronghuai; Zhu, Lixin (Smart Learning Environments, 2021)
With the rapid development of information technology, e-books have become convenient for students to improve their learning performance, especially when learning complicated concepts. However, research showed that acceptance of e-books by teachers is fragmented, due to several factors including the e-book design. Therefore, this study combined the potential positive impacts of openness and interaction on learning to design an open and interactive e-book for teaching K-12 students AI. It then applied a mixed method to investigate the factors that affect teachers’ acceptance of this open and interactive e-book based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) and interviews. The obtained results showed that teachers’ intention to continue using this e-book is significantly influenced by their perceived usefulness and attitude towards this e-book. Additionally, both the interactive and openness features were very helpful for teachers in using this e-book in their teaching plans. However, some of them raised several concerns like the interactive coding platform should be personalized based on students’ age. The findings of this study could help different stakeholders (e.g., instructional designers, teachers, policymakers) in facilitating the design and adoption of open and interactive e-books.

Digital Learning Solutions | Digital Learning For Every Child - Giraldo, Juan Pablo; Tungatarova, Auken; Cooper, Rachel (EdTech Hub, 2021)
UNICEF and EdTech Hub are partnering together to improve learning outcomes through effective uses of EdTech and digital learning. Read this guest post from UNICEF team members which focuses on the first pillar of UNICEF’s Reimagine Education initiative, world-class digital learning solutions.

Preparation, Practice, and Beliefs: A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Teacher Effectiveness - Filmer, Deon; Nahata, Vatsal; Sabarwal, Shwetlena (Research on Improving Systems of Education (RISE), 2021)
This paper uses machine learning methods to identify key predictors of teacher effectiveness, proxied by student learning gains linked to a teacher over an academic year. Conditional inference forests and the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator are applied to matched student-teacher data for Math and Kiswahili from Grades 2 and 3 in 392 schools across Tanzania. These two machine learning methods produce consistent results and outperform standard ordinary least squares in out-of-sample prediction by 14-24 percent. As in previous research, commonly used teacher covariates like teacher gender, education, experience, and so forth are not good predictors of teacher effectiveness. Instead, teacher practice (what teachers do, measured through classroom observations and student surveys) and teacher beliefs (measured through teacher surveys) emerge as much more important. Overall, teacher covariates are stronger predictors of teacher effectiveness in Math than in Kiswahili. Teacher beliefs that they can help disadvantaged and struggling students learn (for Math) and they have good relationships within schools (for Kiswahili), teacher practice of providing written feedback and reviewing key concepts at the end of class (for Math), and spending extra time with struggling students (for Kiswahili) are highly predictive of teacher effectiveness, as is teacher preparation on how to teach foundational topics (for both Math and Kiswahili). These results demonstrate the need to pay more systematic attention to teacher preparation, practice, and beliefs in teacher research and policy.

State releases rules on learner capitation grants, school funds - Githinji, Irene (People Daily, 2021)
One of the policy goals is to enhance access and disbursement of learner capitation grants and other school funds to all public schools.

Building State Capacity - Di Maro, Vincenzo; Evans, David K.; Khemani, Stuti; Scot, Thiago (2021)
Although research has established the importance of state capacity in economic development, less is known about how to build that capacity and the role of external partners in the process. This paper estimates the impact of a typical development project designed to build state capacity in a low-income country. Specifically, it evaluates a multilateral development bank project in Tanzania, which incentivized investments in local state capacity by offering grants conditional on institutional performance scores. The paper uses a difference-in-differences methodology to estimate the project impact, comparing outcomes between 18 project and 22 non-project local governments over 2016–18. Outcomes were measured through two rounds of primary surveys of nearly 500 local government officials and nearly 3,000 households. Over the course of the project, measured state capacity improved in project areas, but due to comparable gains in non-project areas, the project’s value-added to change in state capacity is estimated to be zero across all the dozens of relevant variables in the surveys. The data suggest that state capacity is evolving in Tanzania through endogenous changes in trust and legitimacy in the country rather than from financial incentives offered by external partners.
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M-Lugha: Improving Student’s Access to Literacy and Numeracy by using Local Language Instruction in Northern Kenya - Cordeiro, Paula (Global Ed Leadership, 2021)
Abdinoor Alimahdi is a former telecommunications engineer from Kenya. He is an Award winning EdTech innovator and social entrepreneur. Some of the awards include:  Best 100 startups (StartupIs…

Remote Learning During COVID-19: Lessons from Today, Principles for Tomorrow - Munoz-Najar, Alberto; Gilberto, Alison; Hasan, Amer; Cobo, Cristobal; Azevedo, Joao Pedro; Akmal, Maryam (World Bank, 2021)
School closures during COVID-19 (coronavirus) led to an unprecedented global experiment in the delivery of remote learning. This report seeks to assess what lessons can be drawn from experiences of remote learning during COVID-19 in K-12 education, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. It focuses on the period from March 2020 to October 2021 and addresses the following key questions: 1. Was remote learning during COVID-19 taken up and if so, was it effective That is, did children learn as much as they did during pre-pandemic, in-person learning 2. What lessons can governments derive from this wide-spread experience 3. How might policymakers use these lessons to reimagine learning as schools begin to reopen This report is part of a larger effort led by the World Bank to provide guidance and technical assistance to optimize country effectiveness in the design and execution of remote learning strategies. It has been developed in conjunction with Remote Learning During the Global School Lockdown: Multi-Country Lessons, a qualitative study conducted between May and November 2020 to understand the perceived effectiveness of remote and remedial learning solutions implemented across 17 countries.

Behavioral nudges to prevent learning losses and dropout risk during the pandemic: experimental evidence from Brazil - Lichand, Guilherme; Christen, Julien; van Egeraat, Eppie (University of Zurich Department of Economics, 2021)
Using a cluster-randomized control trial with 18, 256 high-school students across 87 schools in the State of Goiás, Brazil, this paper documents that behavioral nudges, sent through text messages to students or their caregivers during remote learning in the context of COVID-19, significantly increased test scores in a standardized assessment test conducted with high-school seniors on the following year. Impacts were positive across the entire test score distribution, but nudges increased inequality in test scores. Relying on missing scorecard grades as a proxy for dropout risk across all high-school grades during remote learning, we show that nudges decreased this metric by 20% (although the effect is only imprecisely estimated). In contrast to test scores, nudges decreased inequality in dropout risk. Additional experiments that varied the content of nudges at the student level illustrate the opportunities and challenges of using behavioral insights to motivate students in the context of remote learning.
Keywords: COVID-19; Dropouts; Learning Losses; Nudges; Remote Learning

Developing a teacher-focused theory of change for technology-enhanced teaching and learning - EdTech Hub Team (2021)
Internal Brief

Helping families help themselves? Heterogeneous effects of a digital parenting program - Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte Diaz, Lelys; Dominguez, Patricio; Perez-Vincent, Santiago M. (Policy Research Working Papers, 2021)
Parenting practices are crucial for the development of children’s brains and social skills. However, parenting styles may be far from ideal, particularly those of caregivers with high stress levels. Using an individual-level experiment with male and female caregivers of young children in El Salvador, this paper evaluates the impact of a free digital stress management and positive parenting intervention. The results indicate that, for males, the intervention increased stress and anxiety and lowered caregiver-child interactions.

Ed tech, long overhyped, missed its moment amid COVID-19. What now? - Cheney, Catherine (Devex, 2021)
Devex speaks with the experts about how low-cost education technology might ensure more equitable access to remote learning during the pandemic and in any future disruptions to schooling.

Understanding Teacher Digital Competence in the Framework of Social Sustainability: A Systematic Review - De la Calle, Ana Maria; Pacheco-Costa, Alejandra; Gomez-Ruiz, Miguel Ángel; Guzman-Simon, Fernando (MDPI Journals, 2021)
Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, ICT has been urgently introduced in education systems in a generalised manner. In this context, it is essential for teachers to master a spectrum of basic digital competencies and manifest digital leadership in the classroom. In addition, it is necessary to consider the relationship between digital competence development and social sustainability, that is, social and cultural heritage, and to what extent they contribute to improving social cohesion and living conditions in a community. This study presents a systematic review of research on teacher digital competence and social sustainability based on the PRISMA model and a review of 22 studies indexed in SCOPUS. The review reveals that most are intended to measure the digital competence level of teachers, usually in compulsory stages of the educational system and through quantitative studies based on virtual questionnaires comprised of closed-ended questions. However, the studies tend to ignore questions related to social sustainability (access to resources, heritage culture, intergenerational transmission, employability, or gender equality). It is therefore urgent to develop research committed to a sustainable society that is oriented towards social justice.

Kenya Partnership Compact. 2021 | Documents | Global Partnership for Education - Global Partnership for Education (2021)

Gender-responsive education in emergency in Nigeria: Safeguarding Girls' Presents and Futures - Ossai, Edem D, (Brookings Institution, 2021)
This policy brief highlights ways that a gender-responsive perspective can be fully incorporated into planning, policy design, and implementation models for education in emergencies (EiE) in Nigeria, so that governments and education stakeholders can ensure that girls, like boys, can continue learning in times of crisis.

Mapping education data in sub-Saharan Africa: Our experience from the Unlocking Data campaign and Sierra Leone - Unlocking Data (2021)

World Bank: pandemic threatens to drive unprecedented number of children into learning poverty - World Bank (2021)
World Bank: Pandemic Threatens to Drive Unprecedented Number of Children into Learning Poverty

Pakistan - Data Protection Overview - Rehman, Shafaq (DataGuidance, 2021)
October 2021 INTRODUCTION Pakistan does not have any extensive data protection legislation in place that specifically regulates matters in connection with the processing of personal data. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 ('PECA') is currently the primary legislation that provides a legal framework in relation to various kinds of electronic crimes and also extends to the unauthorised access to personal data.

New drive launched to get 250,000 out-of-school children back to class in 16 counties - UNICEF (2021)

FCDO - GEC - Belfield, Sophie; Mathur, Meenu; Caine, Ellie (2021)

Using learning profiles to inform education priorities: An editors’ overview of the Special Issue - Crouch, Luis; Kaffenberger, Michelle; Savage, Laura (International Journal of Educational Development, 2021)
This special issue explores the use of learning profiles for analysing the dynamics of low learning in low- and middle-income countries and informing priorities to address the learning crisis. The 12 papers in the special issue draw on learning data from more than 50 countries and 6 million individuals, with implications for education policy and practice. Taken together, they point to a need to steepen learning trajectories by prioritizing early mastery of foundational skills for all children. The papers show that addressing the learning crisis will not be achieved through more school grade attainment alone, nor through within-country equality across groups (such as girls and boys or rich and poor). Positive examples show that programs focused on foundational learning both improved average learning and reduced inequality. Addressing the learning crisis will require a focus on systems improvement, using foundational learning as a case in point for making the needed systems improvements to steepen learning throughout children’s time in school. Learning profiles can provide a guide for education actors aiming to improve learning outcomes.
Keywords: Education systems; Foundational skills; Inequality; Learning crisis; Learning profiles

COVID-19 learning losses: Early grade reading in South Africa - Ardington, Cally; Wills, Gabrielle; Kotze, Janeli (International Journal of Educational Development, 2021)
• In South Africa in 2020 around 60 % of early grade school days were lost due to COVID. • Grade 2 students have reading losses of between 57 % and 70 % of a year of learning. • Grade 4 students have reading losses of between 62 % and 81 % of a year of learning. • These losses imply learning to schooling loss ratios in the region of 1–1.4. • Students with stronger initial reading proficiency are more negatively impacted. Using three different studies on early grade reading from no-fee schools across in South Africa, this paper establishes short-term learning losses in reading for grade 2 and 4 students from under-resourced school contexts. We find that in 2020 grade 2 students lost between 57 % and 70 % of a year of learning relative to their pre-pandemic peers. Among a grade 4 sample, learning losses are estimated at between 62 % and 81 % of a year of learning. Considering that in 2020 students in the samples lost between 56 %–60 % of contact teaching days due to school closures and rotational timetabling schedules compared to a pre-pandemic year, this implies learning to schooling loss ratios in the region of 1–1.4. There is some evidence from the grade 4 sample that the reading trajectories of children benefiting more from attending school pre-pandemic – namely girls and children with stronger initial reading proficiency - are more negatively impacted. Mitigating the long-run implications of these learning losses will require a significant pivoting of the education system to ensure that instructional practices are appropriately levelled to optimise learning.
Keywords: BEGINNING reading; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; Early grade reading; Learning losses; READING (Preschool); READING ability testing; SCHOOL closings; School closure

ClassRoute: An English to Punjabi Educational Video Translation Pipeline for Supporting Punjabi Mother-Tongue Education - Shaghaghi, Navid; Ghosh, Smita; Kapoor, Raghav (2021 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2021)
Information Communication Technology (ICT) permeates almost every aspect of our daily lives and has become one of the most important priorities for formal and informal education. However, many people particularly those in least developed countries, are unable to reap the benefits due to lack of access to ICT but also due to lack of access to quality educational material. Additionally, in Punjab India, due to a shortage of resources and lack of infrastructure, the education system suffers from massive gaps including high student to teacher ratios, shortage of qualified teachers, and poor teacher training programs. This all has also been further exacerbated due to the COVID19 Pandemic as schools shut down globally and all teaching/learning activities moved online where possible or were canceled otherwise. In an effort to help relieve some of the burden on the Punjabi education system, and motivated by the proven efficiency of mother-tongue based education as well as the importance of visual-based learning, this paper introduces a pipeline for translating English educational videos into Punjabi equivalents which seeks to go beyond simple translation and in future iterations take into consideration the cultural needs of the learners in order to better connect them with the topics being taught. This pipeline is among a series of under construction pipelines aimed at translating English educational videos into other languages, dubbed as ClassRoute.
Keywords: Bridging the Digital Divide; Education; Education Technology (EdTech); Humanitarian Information Communications Technology (ICT); Language Translation; Natural Language Processing (NLP); Pandemics; Pipelines; Quality Education; Semantics; Tongue; Tools; Training

Situation analysis on the effects of and responses to COVID-19 on the education sector in Asia - UNICEF ROSA; UNICEF EAPRO; UNESCO Bangkok; Cambridge Education (UNICEF, 2021)

Poverty and Equity Brief: Pakistan - World Bank (2021)

Educational Technology: How Important Is It In Today's Education Industry? - Lim, Alexander (eLearning Industry, 2021)
Technological advancement has impacted a lot on education. Find out the 7 most common benefits of educational technology!

Perceived Efficacy of e-Proctoring Software for Emergency Remote Online Based Assessment: Perceptions of Proctored Examinations - Ironsi, Chinaza (EDEN Conference Proceedings, 2021)
The switch from traditional teaching methods to emergency remote online learning as a result of the outbreak of COVID-19 necessitated a change in approaches to measurement and evaluation in our educational system. A lot of methods were adopted yet the need for credible, properly monitored, valid and reliable assessment continues to be an issue of debate. E-proctoring as a popular strategy for monitoring and administering online-based examinations has witnessed tremendous success over the years yet ethical issues and many more are yet to be extensively examined. While a teacher may embrace the use of this software for monitoring examination, the perception of preservice teachers has not been explored adequately, much more the opinions of the instructors and preservice teachers on the level of efficacy with regards to the use of e-proctoring strategy for monitoring online-based examinations in a hybrid/emergency remote online educational model has not been investigated. It is in this light that this study intends to examine the perceptions of instructors and preservice teachers on the use of e-proctoring devices during online-based assessments, two research questions were investigated through a quantitative research design. A structured questionnaire was used to elicit information from 40 participants comprising of 36 students and 4 teachers on their perceptions of the effectiveness and efficacy of the e-proctored software while administering and monitoring examinations. Findings from the study will be beneficial in drawing valid conclusions on the use of e-proctored devices in monitoring emergency remote online-based assessment. The conclusions will prepare school administrators and equip them with the possible approaches to adopt in ensuring that a credible valid and reliable evaluation process is conducted during the post-COVID 19 semesters.

Online Course Satisfaction in a Holistic Flipped Classroom Approach - Ilic, Ulaş (Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning, 2021)
The present study aimed to investigate the satisfaction of pre-service teachers with the completely online course instructed with the flipped classroom model. The study was conducted with the explanatory sequential mixed design. The participants included 117 pre-service teachers. Data were collected during the 2020-2021 academic year fall semester with the Online Course Satisfaction Scale and face-to-face interviews. The study findings demonstrated that the pre-service teachers were satisfied with the online course. The satisfaction level of female participants was higher, and the differences were not significant based on the student department. On the other hand, the participants stated that there were systemic and instructor-oriented problems. Furthermore, it was determined that ease of use was an important factor in predicting satisfaction. Ease of use varied based on PC ownership, but not based on tablet ownership. Satisfaction did not differ based on both PC and tablet ownership. It was found that the flipped classroom model exhibited interactional challenges. However, the model had advantages due to its structure that allowed flexibility. It could be suggested that the findings of the present study would contribute to future studies that would address flipped classroom method and satisfaction with online courses.

Reimagining Education for Continuous Learning and Teaching - Sengeh, Hon Minister David Moinina; Team, MBSSE Delivery; Team, Hon Minister David Moinina Sengeh and MBSSE Delivery (EdTech Hub, 2021)
EdTech Hub has partnered with the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education in Sierra Leone to increase the use of evidence in decisions around EdTech. Click to read more.

Education in Emergencies, Mental Wellbeing and E-Learning - Shohel, M. Mahruf C.; Mahmud, Arif; Urmee, Munira Azhar; Anwar, Muhammad Naveed; Rahman, Mohammad Mojibur; Acharya, Dev Raj; Ashrafuzzaman, Md; Shohel, M. Mahruf C.; Mahmud, Arif; Urmee, Munira Azhar; Anwar, Muhammad Naveed; Rahman, Mohammad Mojibur; et al. (IntechOpen, 2021)
The world has been going through an unprecedented situation due to the world-wide health crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic. It affected all sectors across the globe, including education. This chapter highlights the importance of education in emergencies and how a situation like the COVID-19 pandemic creates challenges alongside opportunities to learn for personal and professional development as well as to ensure mental wellbeing of individuals through e-learning. The chapter explores literature to draw on different perspectives regarding the issues related to effectiveness in handling education and learning in an emergency in addition to preparedness for post and future emergencies. However, it focuses mainly on the role of the education sector in supporting individuals, especially learners and educators during and after emergencies. It also reflects on educational professionals’ work with students during this pandemic i.e. how educational professionals report on their adaptation journey and how the pandemic impacted the ability to serve and engage learners. From the professionals’ best practices to assist students in being successful through online education or hybrid teaching and learning formats, many opportunities arose to shape and reform education for a better future and transform the process of lifelong learning. This chapter outlines strategies, in general, for the education sector, and in particular, institutions and individuals to be better prepared for future emergencies through the opportunities e-learning offers.

Transition to online learning by a teacher education program with limited 4IR affordances - Tsakeni, Maria (Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2021)
This study used the community of inquiry (CoI) framework and the affordances of Internet of things (IoT) to explore how the faculty of education of a rural campus of a university transitioned from face-to-face to online modes of instruction. In this qualitative interpretive study, data were collected through open-ended questionnaires from four purposely selected teacher educators and five final-year bachelor of education preservice teachers. Thematic content analysis techniques were used to analyze the data collected. The findings indicated the tensions experienced by the teacher educators as they negotiated the limited IoT affordances to ensure effective teaching, cognitive, and social presence in the newly formed online classrooms. Some of the tensions included the choices that were made on whether to use synchronous or asynchronous modes of instruction and the selection of effective communication modes. The teacher educators used a combination of the official learning management system (LMS) tools of the university and a social media platform as way of navigating the limited 4IR environments experienced by the preservice teachers.
Keywords: COVID-19; Internet of things; community of inquiry; online learning; teacher education

Kenya lauded for achieving 75% electricity access rate - Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) (2021)

17 EdTech Frameworks and Who Needs to Know Them - Bapna, Akanksha; Nicolai, Susan; Myers, Christina; Pellini, Arnaldo; Sharma, Namrata; Wilson, Sam; Wilson, Akanksha Bapna, Susan Nicolai, Christina Myers, Arnaldo Pellini, Namrata Sharma and Sam (EdTech Hub, 2021)
17 EdTech frameworks that provide a valuable bridge between theory and practice. EdTech resources for policy-makers, educational institutions, teachers and multi-stakeholders.

Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America - Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano (The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2021)
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these information to estimate the potential impact of the pandemic on schooling, high school completion, and intergenerational associations. In addition, we account for educational disruptions related to household income shocks. Our findings show that, despite that mitigation policies were able to partly reduce instructional losses in some countries, the educational attainment of the most vulnerable could be seriously affected. In particular, the likelihood of children from low educated families to attain a secondary schooling degree could fall substantially.
Keywords: COVID-19; Education; Human capital; I24; I38; Inequality; Intergenerational persistence; J62; Latin America; Lockdowns; School closures

Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America - Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano (The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2021)
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these information to estimate the potential impact of the pandemic on schooling, high school completion, and intergenerational associations. In addition, we account for educational disruptions related to household income shocks. Our findings show that, despite that mitigation policies were able to partly reduce instructional losses in some countries, the educational attainment of the most vulnerable could be seriously affected. In particular, the likelihood of children from low educated families to attain a secondary schooling degree could fall substantially.
Keywords: COVID-19; Education; Human capital; I24; I38; Inequality; Intergenerational persistence; J62; Latin America; Lockdowns; School closures

Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis - Selwyn, Neil (E-Learning and Digital Media, 2021)
Despite climate heating and rising ecological instability, environmental issues feature rarely in discussions of educational technology. Most commentators presume the continued unfettered use of digital education resources bolstered by occasional claims that emerging technologies might support the ?greening? of school and university provision. In contrast to such business-as-usual complacency, this article anticipates ongoing environmental degradation of the planet as radically upending the continued expansion of digital technologies in education. On the one hand, depletion of natural resources and energy curtailments might put paid to established ?abundant? forms of digital technology use. On the other hand, more frequent climate-related disasters might necessitate emergency forms of education for displaced and unsettled populations. As such, the article argues for a new paradigm of educational technology that is both wholly sustainable and targeted towards displaced and disadvantaged populations. The article considers a number of ways that such an ?Ed-Tech Within Limits? might be pursued ? outlining fundamental shifts in thinking necessary to reorient educational technology along environmentally concerned lines.

Teaching and Testing by Phone in a Pandemic - Crawfurd, Lee; Evans, David K.; Hares, Susannah; Sandefur, Justin (Center for Global Development, 2021)
How did children learn while schools were closed during 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this paper we evaluate the effectiveness of live tutoring calls from teachers, using a randomized controlled trial with 4,399 primary school students in Sierra Leone.
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Where is EdTech working? Leveraging data for better EdTech policies - Marin, Sergio Venegas; Cobo, Cristobal; Cloutier, Marie-Helene; Lambert-Porter, Emma (Where is EdTech working? Leveraging data for better EdTech policies, 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted schooling for over 1.6 billion students worldwide. Many education systems fell short of their goal to ensure the continuity of learning due to the digital divide that kept many without access to any kind of remote learning opportunity.

An analysis of the reach and effectiveness of distance learning in India during school closures due to COVID-19 - van Cappelle, Frank; Chopra, Vidur; Ackers, Jim; Gochyyev, Perman (International Journal of Educational Development, 2021)

Connecting Learning Spaces: Possibilities for Hybrid Learning - Working Group on Digital Learning (Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, 2021)