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Rebooting Education Management Information Systems for the Post 2015 World

Matthew Powell – OPMAllan Findlay - EDOREN

EDOREN 11 April 2013 Strode© 2011 Oxford Policy Management Ltd

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Issues with Existing Data and Use:

• Existing Annual School Census data comprehensive but underutilised

• Limited data analysis skills in some developing countries especially relational databases

• Few attempts to leverage data by linking successive years and like for like

• Little use of school scoring• Little use of GPS and electronic data capture• Insufficient engagement with the rapidly growing

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Issues with Existing Data and Use:

• Lack of demand from Government• Poor enumeration – still issues of linking

enrolment to school income and political priorities

• Mainly paper based/high volume/low quality• Large number of schools, many inaccessible,

with high enrolmentsIn 2012 Kano public pry – 2.25m pupils and 5,500 schools, England 3.3m pupils and 16,800 schools1017/09/2015

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Hypothesis:

If multiple year ASC data is made available;• linked, like for like, year to year• in one database, • augmented with GPS coordinates, • flagged and filterable by programme interventions • containing aggregated, weighted school scoring• and delivered with a built in report builder (low user skill)then many more parties would start using the data for planning and monitoring and reports would be more relevant

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Test/Pilot. Nigeria Schools Intervention Database (SID)

Aims:• Test feasibility of linking data, interventions

and GPS over time.• Utilise existing ISD scoring• Test user interfaces for flexibility and ease of

use• Test appropriate data aggregation levels and

data availability

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The ISD Approach in Nigeria

Integrated School Development Scoring.• Annex A in Paper• Score 0-100 per public school per year• Based on 23 ASC measures• Available for every public school in Nigeria• Average ISD scores comparable between

LGEAs and States and intervention/non-intervention

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The SID Approach in Nigeria

• Five years data linked at the school level• GPS Added for Schools• Aggregate “ISD” Scores added annually at

school level• All programme interventions at school level

flagged• Reporting tool added to increase usability• Data unlocked and widely distributed

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2009/10 ASC

2010/11 ASC

2011/12 ASC

2012/13 ASC

2013/14 ASC

2014/15 ASC

Data Clean, Aggregate, Extract Transform and Load into SID (Includes ISD Scoring)

SID State Level DatabaseOne all years

With Reporting Tools

School GIS

Coords

Annual School Interventions by

Programme

School Linking Files. Includes Like

for Like Filtering

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Lists of Schools meeting criteria

Lists Maps

Reporting Tools Engine

Result tablesLike for Like AnalysisIntervention/Non-

Intervention

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User Interface

• Outputs by List, GPS Maps or Tables• Simple Selection of Attributes, Metrics and

Filters – low skill user interface• All available State data in one place• Filterable by Intervention, over time, like for

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Result

• Five years data linked at the school level. (Six soon)

• GPS being added for Schools from external MDG source

• Aggregate “ISD” Scores calculated and added annually at school level

• All key programme interventions at school level flagged – multiple programmes

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Benefits/Outputs

• Like for Like Analysis• Time Series Analysis• GPS Conditional Maps• Maps/Lists of Sample Schools

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Fit for SDG’s ?

• Driver to gather and use data• Granular Data• Identification of what is working over time

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