External Publications

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

1. Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention: Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of “Teaching at the Right Level” in India. By Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, James Berry, Esther Duflo, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukherji, Marc Shotland, Michael Walton
2. From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies: Challenges and Solutions, with an Application. By Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, James Berry, Esther Duflo, Harini Kannan, Shobhini Mukerji, Marc Shotland, and Michael Walton
3. Can information campaign spark local participation and improve outcomes? A study of Primary Education in Uttar Pradesh, India. By Abhijit Banerjee, Rukmini Banerji, Esther Duflo, Rachel Glennerster, Daniel Kenniston, Stuti Khemani and Marc Shotland
4. Experiences and lessons of learning intervention programmes across the PAL Network members
5. Assessment for Action: An Organic, Free–Range Approach to Raising Learning for All
6. Citizen-led assessments and their effects on parents’ behavior_Ruth Carlitz and Dr. Varja Lipovsek
7. The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets. By Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das and Asim Ijaz Khwaja 
8. Bright and Early: How financing pre-primary education gives every child a fair start in life_Asma Zubairi and Pauline Rose
9. Measuring the impact of citizen-led assessments for improving the quality of education
10. The Annual Status of Education Report survey: Monitoring learning levels of children in rural India_ACER
11. Uwezo: Monitoring children’s competencies in East Africa_ACER
12. Validating the ASER Testing Tools_Comparisons with Reading Fluency Measures and the Read India Measures

 

Policy Papers

1. Citizen-led Assessments: A model for Evidence-based Advocacy and Action to Improve Learning
2. Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India
3. The India Early Childhood Education Impact Study – Policy Brief
4. Citizen-led educational monitoring shows promise
5. Student Learning in South Asia_Challenges, Opportunities and Policy Priorities

Reports

1. Transformative Political Leadership to Promote 12 Years of Quality Education for All Girls
2. Insights from the African Education Research Database
3. Education Systems in South Asia: Implications of Globalization and Economic Reforms
4. Africa 2030:How Africa Can Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
5. Global Education Monitoring Report_2019
6. SDG 4 Data Digest 2018: Data to Nurture Learning
7. 12 Years of Quality Education for All Girls: A Commonwealth Perspective
8. Delivering on every child right to basic skills
9. Global Education Monitoring Report_2017-18
10. World Development Report_2018_Learning to Realise Education’s Promise
11. Reasons for Girls dropout from government schools in District Muzaffargarh, Punjab by Awaz Foundation
12. The role and impact of private schools in developing countries
13. The Role of English in Skills Development in South Asia: Policies, Interventions and Existing Evidence By Elizabeth J. Erling
14. English in Education: Bihar State Profile – India
15. Improving Quality Education and Children’s Learning Outcomes and Effective Practices in the East and Southern Africa Region_ACER_UNICEF
16. Millions Learning_Scaling Up Quality Education in Developing Countries
17. Pakistan District Education Rankings 2016

 

Innovations

Discussion Papers / Think Pieces

1. Using Digital Technology and a Community Based Approach to Improve Educational Outcomes for Culturally, Linguistically Diverse and Exceptional Children in Pakistan: A Conceptual Framework
2. How can education systems become equitable by 2030? DFID think pieces – Learning and equity By Pauline Rose and Benjamin Alcott
3. The good news from Pakistan -How a revolutionary new approach to education reform in Punjab shows the way forward for Pakistan and development aid everywhere _ Sir Michael Barber_ March 2013
4. Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) and National Achievement Surveys (NAS):  a comparison
5. ASER, Uwezo and Beekunko Test Items_Compilation by Education Policy Data Centre
6. When Schooling Doesn’t Mean Learning_Standford Social Innovation Review_Feb 2017

Reports

1. Transforming the Education Workforce: Learning Teams for a Learning Generation
2. The Education Commission – Progress Report 2016-2017 – Delivering the Learning Generation
3. The Education Commission – The Learning Generation – Investing in Education for a Changing World
4. Pratham’s Read India Program_Taking Small Steps Toward Learning at Scale
5. Education Reform in Pakistan_June 2014

Presentations

1. ASER Pakistan – A Citizen Led Accountability Initiative
2. TaRL Webinar Session 1

Educational Accountability

Research Papers

1. The Education Commission – BackgroundPaper: Information for Accountability
2. The Education Commission – BackgroundPaper: Estimating the Economic Returns of Education from a Health Perspective
3. Information for Accountability: Transparency and Citizen Engagement for Improved Service Delivery in Education Systems – Brookings January 2017
4. Do schools in low income countries really produce so little learning?
5. Does Information Lead to More Active Citizenship? Evidence from an Education Intervention in Rural Kenya
6. Improving Population and Poverty Estimates with Citizen Surveys: Evidence from East Africa
7. Socio economic segregation of disadvantaged children between schools in Pakistan comparing the state and private sector

Policy Papers

1. Educational Accountability or Social Accountability in Education? Similarities, Tensions, and Differences
2. State of Education in Balochistan: Capacity Gap Analysis for Policy Making – Working Paper by Omar Amir, INP
3. Lahore Journal of Policy Studies_Vol 5. No. 1

Reports

1. Access to Finance for Low Cost Private Schools in Pakistan – ILM Ideas
2. 1st Oversight Report by USAID on Public Departments: Education, Social Welfare and Youth Affairs
3. Report on Global Action Week for EFA 2011 in Pakistan
4. Using large-scale assessments of students’ learning to inform education policy_Insights from the Asia-Pacific Regions
5. The Business of Education in Africa

Recommendations

Research Papers

1. Practical recommendations for Equity Analysis in Education _Education Equity Research Initiative
2. The Future is Not Good Enough: Business As Usual After 2015 BACKGROUND RESEARCH PAPER by Alex Evans and David Steven
3. Overcoming Inequalities Within Countries to Achieve Global Convergence in Learning_Background Paper_The Learning Generation_by the REAL Centre
4. Understanding What Works in Oral Reading Assessements_GPE_Hewlett_UIS

Strategies

Plans/Strategies

1. Balochistan Education Sector Plan 2013-2017
2. Sindh Education Sector Plan 2014-2018
3. Punjab School Education Sector Plan 2013-2017
4. Punjab Skills Development Sector Plan 2018
5. District Education Plan – Faisalabad 2015-2020