2022. Diagnostic tools for improving education policy planning

The IIEP online on ‘Diagnostic tools for improving education policy planning' was held from 27 September to 11 November 2022, as part of the KIX-EAP Learning Cycle series. The course was designed to improve participants' knowledge and technical skills on how to use diagnostic tools, with a focus on key bottlenecks in education system, cause-and-effect relationships that might be transformed by the implementation of targeted policies and programmes. Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to: (1) Identify the added value of diagnostic tools; (2) Examine and contrast different diagnostic tools available, their similarities and differences, and the agendas they might implicitly carry; (3) Apply basic identification techniques to navigate the IIEP diagnostic tools: Education Policy Trees and Education Policy Toolbox; (4) Lead an analysis on level completion, focusing on determinants of access and drop-out/ push-out; (5) Combine different sources of information, analyse the results, and identify key policy options for national dialogue; (6) Engage in discussion within country and with other countries about the identification of system bottlenecks and exchange on policy options; (7) Produce policy-relevant case studies that are published online, in English, to be disseminated widely by the KIX EAP hub. Participants in this course spent an average of 48 hours on course-related work.