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Monitoring and Evaluation of the NEPAD e-Schools Demo Project

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infodev.org –

The NEPAD e-Schools Initiative is a multi-country, multi-stakeholder, continental initiative, which intends to impart ICT skills to young Africans in primary and secondary schools and to use ICT to improve the provision of education in schools.infoDev and the Commonwealth of Learning teamed up to support the monitoring and evaluation of the pilot phase of this ambitious project.

Added by John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on September 02, 2010

A Proposal of Indicators and Policy Framework for Innovation Benchmark in Europe

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Abstract: "The implementation of innovation policies has been adopted at European level from a common perspective. The European Council (2000) established open methods of coordination (OMC) in order to gain mutual understanding and achieving greater convergence on innovation policies, constituting a benchmarking procedure. However, the development of benchmarking analysis for innovation policies faces two major inconveniences: the lack of accepted innovation policy frameworks and the existence more...

Added by John Daly on September 02, 2010 Shared by John Daly

The top 100 cities of the global innovation economy.

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innovation-cities.com –

Boston and Paris are listed as the top two cities."Each city was selected from 1,540 cities based on basic factors of health, wealth, population, geography. The selected 289 cities had data extracted the city benchmarking data program on 162 indicators. Each of the benchmarking data were scored by analysts using a vast variety of web and print sources. Where data was unavailable, national or state estimates were used."Data was then trend weighted against 21 global trends (from a summary of key more...

Added by John Daly on September 02, 2010 Shared by John Daly

SmartAid for Microfinance Index 2011: Submission Guide

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The SmartAid for Microfinance Index (SmartAid) measures whether funders are set up to support microfinance effectively. Measuring the effectiveness of funding for microfinance is not easy, given the long chain from project conception, to implementation on the ground, to impact on the lives of the poor. SmartAid focuses on the first part of this chain, funders’ internal management systems, with the simple premise that funders with strong systems are more likely to support better projects on the more...

Added by Zunia on September 02, 2010 Shared by John Daly

Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers

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epi.3cdn.net –

"Every classroom should have a well-educated, professional teacher, and school systems should recruit, prepare, and retain teachers who are qualified to do the job. Yet in practice, American public schools generally do a poor job of systematically developing and evaluating teachers."Many policy makers have recently come to believe that this failure can be remedied by calculating the improvement in students’ scores on standardized tests in mathematics and reading, and then relying heavily on more...

Added by John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on September 01, 2010

Models for Value-Added Modeling of Teacher Effects

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ncbi.nlm.nih.gov –

Abstract: "The use of complex value-added models that attempt to isolate the contributions of teachers or schools to student development is increasing. Several variations on these models are being applied in the research literature, and policy makers have expressed interest in using these models for evaluating teachers and schools. In this article, we present a general multivariate, longitudinal mixed-model that incorporates the complex grouping structures inherent to longitudinal student data more...

Added by John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on September 01, 2010

Method to Grade Teachers Provokes Battles

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nytimes.com –

"How good is one teacher compared with another? A growing number of school districts have adopted a system called value-added modeling to answer that question, provoking battles from Washington to Los Angeles — with some saying it is an effective method for increasing teacher accountability, and others arguing that it can give an inaccurate picture of teachers’ work."The system calculates the value teachers add to their students’ achievement, based on changes in test scores from year to year more...

Added by John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on September 01, 2010

Introduction to Organizational Capacity Development

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pactworld.org –

A training curriculum pulling together Pact's OD tools from programs around the world. The module covers Pact's approach to capacity building, key concepts in adult and organizational learning, a typical OD intervention from start to finish, and a range of tools and delivery methods for OD services.

Added by Zunia on August 31, 2010 Shared by John Daly

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Measuring mortality on the eve of the 2010 World Summit on Millennium Development Goals

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globalhealthaction.net –

Just weeks before the 2010 World Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (http://www.un.org/en/mdg/summit2010/) commences, Global Health Action has published a collection of articles on clustering of mortality. The articles demonstrate the importance of generating data at sub-national levels to fully understand the causes of and solutions to mortality, including mortality in children under five.The Fourth Millennium Development Goal, directed towards child mortality, defines a global target more...

Added by Umeå Centre for Global Health Research on August 31, 2010 Shared by John Daly

Africa: up for grabs. The scale and impact of land grabbing for agrofuels

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foeeurope.org –

This report says that the amount of land being taken in Africa to meet Europe’s increasing demand for biofuels is underestimated and out of control.The research, which looked at 11 African countries, found at least five million hectares of land – an area the size of Denmark – is being acquired by foreign companies to produce biofuels mainly for the European market.The practice – known as land grabbing – is increasing and is dominated by European companies. However with official public more...

Added by Zunia on August 31, 2010 Shared by John Daly

Mathematicians Create Objective Quality of Life Index

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technologyreview.com –

Andrei Zinovyev at the Institut Curie in Paris and Alexander Gorban at the University of Leicester in the UK chose several widely-measured and well-studied indices on which to base their index: GDP per capita, life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rate and the incidence of tuberculosis. This data from 2005 is available for 162 countries. Zinovyev and Gorban then plot this data in four-dimensional space. They then used a technique called "elastic mapping" to derive a single index that more...

Added by John Daly to Monitoring and Evaluation on August 30, 2010

Global Innovation Index Report 2009-2010

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globalinnovationindex.org –

With the focus worldwide on stabilising the global economy and jumpstarting growth, a strong emphasis on directed pro-innovation policies can be a source of hope for nations worldwide. Third in the series, the Global Innovation Index and Report 2009-10 brought out this year, like last, by the world's business school INSEAD in partnership with India's Confederation Industry (CII) has stressed the importance of innovation in country competitiveness and development strategies and is clearly one of more...

Added by John Daly on August 29, 2010 Shared by John Daly

The Innovation Imperative in Manufacturing: How the U.S. Can Restore its Edge

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bcg.com –

"To compete against global challengers from low-cost countries, companies in the U.S. must differentiate themselves through innovation. And government--at both the national and the local level--must support these efforts through effective policies. The payoff is enormous: countries with thriving industries have a higher standard of living and a better quality of life than other nations. This report assesses the state of innovation in the U.S. compared to other countries and explores how to more...

Added by John Daly on August 29, 2010 Shared by John Daly

Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After Doesn't Work

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vwa.unisg.ch –

Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. In this report the authors propose an alternative semi-parametric estimator that is based on the assumption that the intervention has no direct effect on the health outcome but influences the outcome only through its effect on individual behavior. They show that in this case the evaluation problem can be divided into two parts: (i) the more...

Added by Zunia to Monitoring and Evaluation on August 29, 2010

(Re)counting the poor in Peru: a multidimensional approach

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www1.up.edu.pe –

This paper addresses the debate between the recent evolution of monetary poverty figures and the levels of deprivation of the Peruvian population. The paper relies on a multidimensional approach for poverty measurement to measure the tension between the incidence of monetary poverty and the overall level of deprivation in terms of a set of basic attributes for human development.The author indicates that according to 2008 figures, 39% of individuals lacking some of the basic attributes more...

Added by Zunia on August 29, 2010 Shared by John Daly

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