Advancing Educational Inclusion and Quality in South East Europe

1. Advancing Educational Inclusion and Quality in South East Europe Daniel Pop June 29, 2008, Skopje

2. The structure of the presentation • Where we are in the survey process • Data analysis strategy • Dataset access, and other project related documents and materials • … • Conclusions

3. Where we are in the survey process Where we are in the survey process • A number of eight datasets assembled using bistadial random sampling of schools with primary education (rural/urban, and geographic regions) • We start the data analysis and report writing phases of the initiative • And the planning of local actions and national advocacy campaign • Last, we inquire about the opportunity to plan a follow-up, i.e. parents survey

4. The school principle survey School principle survey Provides insights into: • the nature and extent of stakeholder participation in schools: which group participate and/or was invited to participate, with what results • if present, the extent to which stakeholder participation is inclusive • school principals' attitudes towards and beliefs about parental participation; what they perceive to be advantages and disadvantages of participation, reasons for and against it, resources they have or would need for participation, relevant partnerships • in particular, their attitudes towards and beliefs about inclusive participation, i.e. whether in each stakeholder group, all members of that group can/do participate equally without regard to gender, ethnicity, disability, etc.

5. Coverage Schools with teaching I to IV Schools with teaching IX to XII Schools with teaching I to X Schools with teaching I to VIII V-VIII pupils population among schools Schools with teaching V to X Schools with teaching I to XII Schools with teaching V to X Special schools TVET Coverage

6. Levels of data analysis Levels of data analysis • Will be carried out at both: • National level – in the eight participating countries using the individual datasets • Regional level – comparative analysis of results and lessons learnt • There is also the possibility to include cross country comparisons in country reports

7. The audience of the report The audience of the report • The primary audience of the country reports are key educational stakeholders in the given country

8. Types of analysis to be performed Types of analysis to be performed • Variable level descriptive analysis, lead to basic tables • Composites and associations among variables and composites at individual country levels • Inferential statistics FOR MORE INFO... cleaned dataset and syntax for analysis provided by July 15

9. Composites Composites • The Index of school-parents communication channels • The Index of parental opportunities to support school activities • The Index of school support for parents to help their children in education • The Index of parental involvement in school level decision-making • The Index of barriers and obstacles in school-parents

10. Building the composites Building the composites • Cleaning the data, for instance: • creating new variables responses are in numerical agreement within the other attributes of the variable (i.e. eliminate non-responses and refusals), • change the direction of the values so that higher values reflect larger extents or more frequent • Design a composition rule of the index using the scores of the new variable by combining the individual scores for the given variables, i.e. and additive index. FOR MORE INFO... Methodologies will be provided to country teams for each composite and other variables generated.

11. The Index of school-parents communication channels

12. Brief presentation of the initiative

13. Dataset access, and other project related documents and materials • Cleaned country level datasets will be transmitted to partners • Protocols of handling datasets