Eddy-Spicer, D;
Ehren, M;
Bangpan, M;
(2019)
Monitoring and Data Use in Developing Countries: Findings from a Systematic Literature Review.
Journal of Professional Capital & Community
, 4
(3)
pp. 172-197.
10.1108/JPCC-11-2018-0028.
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Abstract
The collection and dissemination of standardized performance information about students, teachers, schools and school systems offer potentially important tools for school accountability and resource allocation as well as school improvement in developing countries. However, performance monitoring systems in developing countries are in many cases copied from those in high-income countries without a clear understanding of their functioning in contexts of limited resources and capacity for change. Our review examines the conditions under which and the mechanisms through which system-wide performance monitoring affects school-level organization and processes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The review employs realist synthesis because of the complexity and dynamism of conditions in LMICs, the wide variability in available literature, and our aim of explaining how particular organizational outcomes arise, given particular conditions. We draw on findings from a systematic review of 22 studies and reports, published since 2001, related to the implementation of performance monitoring. Our findings highlight key barriers to the use of data to inform school accountability and improvement. Capacity to collect, interpret and use data is an important condition to both effective external accountability as well as improvement of schools. The review uses realist approaches to building middle-level theories to help scholars, educational advisers, policy makers and educational leaders understand the causal processes that result in certain outcomes from monitoring activities and to identify the conditions that are necessary for those processes to have the desired outcomes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Monitoring and Data Use in Developing Countries: Findings from a Systematic Literature Review |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1108/JPCC-11-2018-0028 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1108/JPCC-11-2018-0028 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | monitoring practices; school performance; school organization; developing countries; accountability; realist synthesis |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Learning and Leadership UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10072048 |
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