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Education Data Quality in the Third World: A Five Country Study.

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Chapman, David W. – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1991

Reports findings from a study of the confidence expressed by ministry-level decision makers in five developing countries (i.e., Somalia, Botswana, Liberia, Yemen, and Nepal) about the quality of the national-level education data available to them and reasons for the perceived 16-40 percent error rate. (DMM)

Descriptors: Comparative Education, Data Collection, Developing Nations, Educational Research

Education Data Quality in Nepal.

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Chapman, David W.; Dhungana, Madhup – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991

The quality of educational data in Nepal was evaluated by investigating three questions: (1) the extent of reporting error in national education data; (2) accuracy of error estimation; and (3) levels at which error is introduced. Evidence suggests that data may be more accurate than decision makers suppose. (SLD)

Descriptors: Data Collection, Decision Making, Developing Nations, Educational Research