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The Quality of Education: Dimensions and Strategies
Written by Don Adams and David Chapman

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ISBN: 971-561-533-3
Pub. Date: 2004
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Contents

List of Tables, Figure, List of Boxes, List of Abbreviations, and Foreword [ PDF: 30kb | 10 pages ]

Introduction [ PDF: 10kb | 1 pages ]
Concerns and Problems [ PDF: 34kb | 7 pages ]

The Meaning of Education Quality
Education Achievements, Concerns, and Problems among DMCs
Demographic and Economic Contextual Influences

Teaching and Learning: The Classroom and School [ PDF: 110kb | 27 pages ]

The Research Base for Effective Schooling
Teachers and Teaching
    Teacher Status, Recruitment, and Deployment
    Preservice, In-service, and Continuing Training
    Incentives for Teachers
    Teacher Roles and Teacher Quality
    Developing Quality Teaching in the Periphery
Curriculum
Education Governance, Management, and School Organization

Policies and Strategies for Improving Education Quality [ PDF: 73kb | 22 pages ]

Systemic Changes and Reforms
Developing More Effective Teachers and Teaching
Developing and Sustaining High-Quality Education Institutions
Management of Teaching and Learning
Monitoring and Sustaining Quality Improvement
    A Technology for Assessing and Monitoring Education Quality
    Conditions for Sustaining Quality Improvement

Conclusion [ PDF: 18kb | 3 pages ]
Notes on the Authors, References, Appendix, and Index [ PDF: 39kb | 12 pages ]


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Series: Education in Developing Asia
Series editor: Mark Bray

Layout and index by Sara Wong.

The findings, interpretation, and conclusions expressed in this study are entirely those of the author and should not be attributed in any manner to the Asian Development Bank or the University of Hong Kong.

A summary of an earlier version of this booklet was presented as an article in Vol.29, No.7 (1998) of the International Journal of Educational Research, published by Pergamon Press. The publishers of this booklet thank Pergamon Press for permission to reproduce some of the materials from the journal article.

ISBN 971-561-407-8
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