An intermediate-level text on the theoretical and practical aspects and applications of survey research, explaining the principles and techniques of designing and executing a sample survey and discussing its uses, abuses, and limitations

The Sample Survey: Theory and Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Warwick, Donald P.

Lininger, C. A.

Social Sciences

McGraw=Hill

McGraw-Hill Companies

Comparative research methods (General sociology series)

PRENTICE/HALL

Hope or Despair? asks what promotes and what holds back student learning in Pakistan's government-sponsored primary schools. Using a national sample of schools, students, teachers, and supervisors, it shows how learning is affected by student background, teachers and teaching, school supervision, facilities, and innovation. It is the first book to use achievement tests based on the national curriculum to show influences on learning in the primary schools of an entire developing country. The study also explores why some students complete primary school and others do not.
The overall quality of education in Pakistan's government primary schools is low, but student learning rises with the teacher's formal education and with certain teaching practices. Student social class, a strong influence on learning in the United States, makes little difference in Pakistan. Whether the teacher is male or female has no relationship to learning in science, but it does affect achievement in mathematics. Neither supervision nor school facilities are related to achievement. This unique study will be of great interest to those concerned with schooling effectiveness in developing countries as well as to economists, sociologists, and political scientists interested in human resources in those countries.

Hope or Despair?: Learning in Pakistan's Primary Schools

Education & Teaching

Reimers, Fernando

Schools & Teaching

Praeger

Bitter Pills: Population Policies and their Implementation in Eight Developing Countries

Cambridge University Press

A Theory of Public Bureaucracy: Politics, Personality, and Organization in the State Department

Politics & Government

Harvard Univ Pr

Based mainly on State Department materials, but addressing generic problems of organizational politics as well, this book provides a fresh, intelligent, and lively account of bureaucratic behavior.

Business & Money

Harvard University Press

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