Findings from the Bhutan Learning Quality Survey
The education sector in Bhutan has been growing steadily since the 1960s and concomitantly the literacy rates of the population have also been steadily going up over time. The mostly mountainous country regards education as central to its national...
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Format: | Policy Note |
Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/01/10193045/findings-bhutan-learning-quality-survey http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17940 |
Summary: | The education sector in Bhutan has been
growing steadily since the 1960s and concomitantly the
literacy rates of the population have also been steadily
going up over time. The mostly mountainous country regards
education as central to its national development. Every
cohort has seen an increasing share of children going to
school and the education system now strains to keep up with
the speed with which enrolment has expanded over the last
ten years, in-line with Bhutan's commitment to meet the
education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report
is structured as follows: section two presents the
background and context of Bhutan's education system;
section three discusses previous theoretical and empirical
literature on education quality; section four describes the
sampling design methodology, the sample and empirical
methodology used in this study; section five presents
findings on students' actual knowledge in three
subjects and their corresponding scaled scores; section six
presents the results of multivariate regression analysis for
estimating school, teacher and child related correlates of
learning outcomes; section seven profiles teachers in grades
two and four and the education process; and section eight
concludes with brief summary, discussion of policy
implications, and recommendation for future research. |
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