Practical questions

1) How to identify who is Roma?1)Self identification as well as identification by others

2)To ensure protection of personal data

3)Self identification is right of person that should be preserved

2) What are good indicators for monitoring of discrimination of Roma in education?

Agreed indicators

• Percent of Roma who do not posses personal documents

• Percent of Roma and non Roma (3-6 years old) enrolled in the preschool institutions

• Percent of Roma enrolled in mixed preschool institutions

• (If you have “zero grade”) Percent of Roma and non Roma enrolled in the “zero grade”

Agreed indicators

• Percent of Roma and non Roma who are enrolled in the first grade of the compulsory education at time

• Percent of Roma and non Roma who are enrolled in the compulsory education

• Percent of Roma and non Roma who are enrolled in the non segregated setting (mixed classes within regular schools)

• Percent of Roma and non Roma who attend school regularly (but, it needs to be more precise in terms what does it mean regular attendance)

Agreed indicators

• No of units (lessons or textbook chapters) where Roma is presented in affirmative vs. negative way

• Percent of Roma and non Roma who complete compulsory education at time

Agreed indicators• Percent of Roma and non Roma who are enrolled in any form of

secondary education• Percent of Roma and non Roma who are enrolled in shorten

secondary education streams that do not allow further education • Percent of Roma and non Roma who complete compulsory

education at time• Percent of Roma and non Roma who are enrolled in tertiary

education• Percent of Roma and non Roma who complete tertiary education

Agreed indicators

• Achievement gap between Roma and non Roma students at the national examinations (after compulsory and secondary education)

• Achievement gap controlled for socio-economic status between Roma and non Roma in the assessment studies (national and international) in which country participated (for example PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS, national assessment studies)

• NB: By achievement gap the quality of education delivered to Roma students is monitored

Agreed indicators

• Percent of Roma and non Roma students who are victims of any form of unfair treatment (based on reports of the inspectorate service and Roma organizations)

• Percent of Roma and non Roma students and parents who are satisfied with different aspects of interaction with schools (based on student/parents surveys)

Agreed indicators

• When country adopt some standards of educational achievements (for early development, compulsory or secondary education) percent of Roma and non Roma who rich standards

No consensus

• Average length of preschool education for Roma and Non Roma

• (If you have “school readiness testing”) Use readiness gap as indicator of quality of preschool service for Roma (and not for streaming Roma children to special schools)

• Percent of Roma students and number of schools who attend Roma language and culture courses in the compulsory education