Missing children in educational research: investigating school-based versus household-based assessments in India |
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| Authors: | Melissa Rae Goodnight Savitri Bobde |
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| Institution: | 1. LAS Global Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USAmelissa.goodnight@gmail.com http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1106-6665;2. ASER Centre, New Delhi, India |
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| Abstract: | Including all children in large-scale educational studies is a pressing concern. Omitting certain types of children from studies can lead to skewed findings that promote inaccuracies about learning levels or educational quality. Increasingly, assessments are a method for investigating the quality of education systems, but national assessments are typically conducted in classrooms and may fail to accurately represent a country’s full range of children. Alternatively, households can be a site for testing or collecting data on children’s learning. Analysing the quantitative data from two studies in India that use both household-based and school-based methods alongside data from Government of India sources, the issues with child representation in school-based assessments are examined, and the benefits of household-based research as an alternative are explored. |
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| Keywords: | Household-based research data quality India assessment evidence-based policy-making sampling |
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