INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION STATISTICS: WHAT DATA AND HOW TO USE IT?
Actual issues of the education statistics using for international comparative analysis are considered in this article. This is especially significant for Russia today, as the country have launched a wide-scale modernization of the education system. Thus the possibility «to check the course» against the world trends is especially topical. The main international comparative programmes descriptions and data sources for different national educational systems are given in this publication. It also presents the main necessary conditions that will lead to improvement of the international education data application and the quality of international comparisons. The main of them are: determination of correct average values for comparison with Russian indicators; national education programmes classification in line with International Standard Classification of Education; finance and economic indicators conversion to comparable ones with Purchasing Power Parities application.
Keywords: international education statistics, world education indicators, countries grouping by development level of economics, Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs), International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)
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Issue: 8, 2009
Rubric: Pedagogy: Theory and Practice
Pages: 14 — 18
Downloads: 1402