[Research] Fwd: Education Policy Tracker - first cut

[Guru]

Dear Kishore
Welcome to the Working Group on Research and the meeting today from 6 -
730 pm.
Sharing the notes taken online in the last 2 meetings to get you a feel
of what we have discussed  so far.

(Rishi will be unable to attend today's meeting and says he will share
his compendium notes by the weekend)

regards
Guru

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Subject: 	[Research] Education Policy Tracker - first cut
Date: 	Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:45:46 -0400
From: 	Sajitha Bashir <sajitha.bashir at gmail.com>
To: 	research at educationemergency.net



Dear Archana and colleagues

I am attaching the first cut of the policy tracker in the attached excel
file.  I hope we can discuss this on Thursday.
In developing this, I looked at about 14 other policy trackers on
different issues, ranging from sophisticated ones to simple ones (had
mentioned some of these in the earlier PPT).  It is best to go with
something simple, based on ordinal indicators,  but which can be
meaningful if we have a structured data collection, visualization and
communication approach.

Brief explanatory notes
- the first sheet has the suggested indicators , 7 in education, 5 in
health and 3 in social assistance, and the coding ( the latter is to be
reviewed). We don't need to do all of them
- the second sheet suggests how the data could be collected
- the third sheet indicates the steps that have to be taken, from
deciding on the indicators to data collection, visualization and
communication (the last being very important)

My suggestion is  to NOT create a composite index, at this time, which
is difficult for people to understand. For the moment, each indicator
can be presented/visualized separately.

Data collection -  looking at other policy trackers, most actually
collect information from media reports and govt websites. So, as we (ie
ITforChange) are already scanning the media, this should be doable. It
just has to be done systematically and ideally by the same people, so
that the coding is consistent.  Also, we could start with about 10 states. 

I shared this Excel file with Guru, who has entered some comments in the
last column of the first sheet, which I left in.  We can discuss these
and other comments.  My own view is that even if no state is
prioritizing vaccinations for teachers or  doing COVID testing for
teachers today, we should document that, and contrast with other
countries which are doing this (and according to some international
trackers, Govt of India claims to prioritize teachers for vaccination). 
 
This kind of policy tracker would need to be supplemented with more
qualitative assessments of how different states are actually
implementing the "return to school", benchmarking against the
guidelines that are being developed by the education support group. 

Also working on the high frequency survey questions
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