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Quality of Education in MadrasahThe 'Quality of Education in
 Madrasah' (QEM) study aimed to provide high quality
 research into various dimensions of quality of education in
 Indonesian Madrasahs. The study focused on final year
 students in Islamic Junior Secondary Schools (Madrasah
 Tsanawiyah, MT). One hundred and fifty MTs were sampled from
 across Indonesia, with equal numbers selected from Java and
 the East and West of the country. Systematically selected
 intact classes were sampled within schools, involving a
 total of 6,233 students. Eight instruments were developed
 for use in the study. Four were achievement tests designed
 to assess performance in Mathematics, Science, Indonesian
 and English. Australian Council for Educational
 Research's (ACER's) School Life Questionnaire
 (SLQ) was used as an affective measure of school quality.
 ACER developed an instrument to assess student background
 characteristics, and a Principal Interview Schedule and a
 School Inventory were also developed by ACER to collect
 information on MTs. Mean scores showed that students in Java
 performed better than students in the East and West regions
 on each of the four achievement tests, with students in the
 West performing marginally better than students in the East
 on all tests. The largest correlations between student
 background factors and achievement across the three regions
 were observed for number of home resources and study
 materials available to students.
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Assessing Sector Performance and Inequality in Education : Streamlined Analysis with ADePT SoftwareThis book gathers in one volume all the
 information related to Automated DEC [Development Economics
 - Vice Presidency at the World Bank] Poverty Tables (ADePT)
 Edu, the software platform created by the World Bank for
 reporting and analyzing education indicators and education
 inequality. It includes a primer on the availability of
 education data, an operating manual for using the ADePT
 software, a technical explanation of all the education
 indicators ADePT generates, and an overview of global
 education inequality using ADePT Edu. Chapter one is an
 introduction to ADePT Edu. It describes its origin and
 intended use and familiarizes readers with educational
 statistics. Chapter two is intended for users unfamiliar
 with the different datasets that contain education
 statistics and household-level data that contain information
 on education. Chapter three is a step-by-step technical
 guide for potential users. In addition to identifying the
 hardware and operating system requirements, it provides
 graphic examples of each of the steps needed to install and
 operate the software. Chapter four describes the outputs of
 ADePT and the definitions of all the indicators it
 generates. Chapter five provides a global and regional
 overview of education inequality, using ADePT Edu outputs
 obtained from household survey data. It analyzes inequality
 in school participation, progression, and attainment.
 Chapter 5 also illustrates how ADePT Edu can be used to
 readily analyze data from any household survey, a feature
 that makes this software unique. The analysis of education
 inequality serves as a backdrop for the potential use of
 household surveys for analyzing the demand side of education.
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Heterogenous Peer Effects, Segregation and Academic AttainmentSocioeconomic segregation is often
 decried for denying poorer children the benefits of positive
 'peer effects'. Yet standard, linear-in-means
 models of peer effects (a) implicitly assume that
 segregation is zero sum, with gains and losses to rich and
 poor perfectly offsetting, and (b) rule out theories of
 'social distance' whereby peer effects are
 strongest among similar pairings. The paper exploits the
 random assignment of pupils between classes to identify more
 general peer effects in Argentine test-score data. Estimates
 violate both assumptions (a) and (b), and provide micro
 foundations for the correlations between school segregation,
 average test-scores, and test-score inequality in
 municipality-level data.