IIEP Training materials

Quantitative Research Methods in Educational Planning

This series of modules is targeted towards educational planners, researchers, and managers working in ministries of education, universities, and international agencies, who are involved, or will soon be involved, in undertaking large-scale information collections that are to be used for guiding decisions concerned with planning the quality of education.

These modules are intended to provide knowledge and skills required for critical areas in the process of large-scale data collections, such as translation of policy concerns to research questions, design of scientific sampling, construction of tests and questionnaires, preparation and management of data.

The modules have been used by the National Research Coordinators of Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) and in universities during training workshops and courses, face-to-face as well as via satellite.

Module 1	Educational research: some basic concepts and terminology by T. Neville Postlethwaite
Module 2	From educational policy issues to specific research questions and the basic elements of research design by Ian D. Livingstone
Module 3	Sample design for educational survey research by Kenneth N. Ross
Module 4	Judging educational research based on experiments and surveys by Richard M. Wolf
Module 5	Item writing for tests and examinations by Graeme Withers
Module 6	Overview of test construction by John Izard
Module 7	Trial testing and item analysis by John Izard
Module 8	Questionnaire design by Maria Teresa Siniscalco and Nadia Auriat
Module 10	Data preparation and management by Andreas Schleicher and Mioko Saito