Young Lives School Surveys, 2016-17: the design and development of teacher measures in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam

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Young Lives is an international study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), Peru and Vietnam. Since 2002, Young Lives household surveys have followed the lives of 12,000 children in these four countries in two age cohorts: an ‘Older Cohort’ born in 1994-95, and a ‘Younger Cohort’ born in 2001-02. In 2010, the study introduced a series of school surveys in all four countries, which included a sub-sample of children in the Younger Cohort. Between 2010 and 2013 the school surveys examined issues of school quality and effectiveness in primary schools in Young Lives sites in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. Building upon the design of the primary school surveys, the 2016-17 Young Lives school surveys examine school effectiveness at upper primary level in Ethiopia, and at secondary level in India and Vietnam (see Rossiter et al. 2017, Moore et al. 2017, and Iyer et al. 2017 for a more detailed discussion of the school surveys in each country). The surveys examine school effectiveness through multiple outcome measures, including students’ learning progress in mathematics and functional English. Background data collected from students, teachers and head teachers helps to contextualise the learning outcomes data. This technical note focuses on the design and development of the measures of teacher attitudes, professional knowledge, and classroom environment used in the 2016-17 school surveys. These measures aim to provide data which can be used to explore how different teacher factors contribute to variation in student learning. The note includes a discussion of the rationale for the inclusion of each of these measures, along with details of the process of developing, piloting and selecting the measures used in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam. It also includes a brief discussion of the initial validation of these measures, using data collected in the second wave of the school surveys in 2017.

Authors: Moore, R; Rossiter, J

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Young Lives
• Journal: Young Lives Technical Notes
• Volume: 44
• Series: Young Lives Technical Note
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 2018-02-01
• Keywords: Vietnam; SBTMR; India; Young Lives; Ethiopia; School Surveys; Teacher Measures