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    Information for accountability: Transparency and citizen engagement for improved service delivery in education systems

    Read, Lindsay; Atinc, Tamar Manuelyan | January 2017
    Abstract
    The primary aim of this report is to explore the underlying assumptions behind information-based initiatives, understand under what conditions information can lead to improved service delivery (and ultimately improved education quality and student learning), and to clarify the main mechanisms by which information generates increased engagement, accountability, or improved decisionmaking at the school level. This paper achieves these objectives by summarizing and building on recent large-scale conceptual frameworks and a growing evidence base of impact evaluations; extracting lessons from a number of case studies (see Box 1) to supplement the existing literature and provide nuanced insight into processes and mechanisms behind reform efforts; and compiling, synthesizing, and categorizing recent impact evaluations according to the intensity of interventions and their target change agents (parents, teachers, school principals, and local officials) rather than separately assessing each tactic (for example, school report cards or open data platforms). This report aims to add value in three ways: 1. Reconciling the vast literature on what can broadly be understood as bottom-up efforts to improve service delivery, increase citizen engagement, and promote transparency, particularly open data and social accountability, which tend to be treated separately in the literature due to different intellectual foundations. 2. Providing a sector-specific evaluation, whereas most analyses take a high-level approach that spans different types of service providers, or are education-specific but address multiple types of interventions simultaneously. 3. Applying a particular focus on low- and middle income countries, made possible by an influx of new research in the area.
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    Read, Lindsay; Atinc, Tamar Manuelyan. 2017. Information for accountability: Transparency and citizen engagement for improved service delivery in education systems. © Brookings India. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7252.
    Keywords
    Quality Education
    Levels Of Education
    Higher Education Costs
    Educational Testing
    Educational Surveys
    Educational Reforms
    Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
    Public Policy Evaluation
    Program Evaluation
    Evaluation Criteria
    Examinations
    Higher education institutions
    Free education
    Educational policy
    Project finance
    Technology assessment
    Resources evaluation
    Aid evaluation
    Economic evaluation
    Cost benefit analysis
    Objective tests
    Educational tests and measurements
    College preparation programs
    College dropouts
    Discrimination in higher education
    Universities and colleges
    Educational accountability
    Scholarships
    Prediction of dropout behavior
    Scholarships
    Results mapping
    Self-evaluation
    Participatory monitoring and evaluation
    Educational evaluation
    Cost effectiveness
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11540/7252
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    Author
    Read, Lindsay
    Atinc, Tamar Manuelyan
    Theme
    Education
    Evaluation
     
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    Copyright 2016-2017 Asian Development Bank Institute, except as explicitly marked otherwise