Education strategy 2010
5. Improving quality
5.1 Improving the quality of education
How can we improve the quality of education? What we think is required is: Establishing and protecting cognitive functions in early childhood Focus on learning outcomes measurement particularly in the foundation years Diagnostic use of learning outcomes measurement to inform systemic quality improvements Greater focus on what happens in the classroom: teachers, teaching and learning [...]
5.2 Questions: early childhood interventions
How do we effectively target and coordinate the appropriate suite of early childhood interventions?
5.3 Questions: working with resource constraints
What learning outcomes, measurements and approaches are most practicable in low resource contexts?
5.4 Questions: systematic monitoring
How do we promote systematic data collection, diagnosis and remedial action over time?
5.5 Questions: changing classroom processes
Are prevalent methods of DFID support sufficiently able to impact on classroom processes?
5.6 Questions: good governance and sustainable development
Should we be doing more through education (training, study awards, etc) to enhance good governance and sustainable development?
