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Education Management Information Systems

Efficiency and Effectiveness in Choosing and Using an EMIS

Guidelines for Data Management and Functionality in Education Management Information Systems (EMIS)

Chris van Wyk and Luis Crouch

Education Management Information Systems

Efficiency and Effectiveness in Choosing and Using an EMIS

Guidelines for Data Management and Functionality in Education Management Information Systems (EMIS)

Chris van Wyk and Luis Crouch

UNESCO

The constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was adopted by 20 countries at the London Conference in November 1945 and entered into effect on 4 November 1946. The Organization currently has 195 Member States and 11 Associate Members.

The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to foster universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and the human rights and fundamental freedoms that are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations.

To fulfil its mandate, UNESCO performs five principal functions: 1) prospective studies on education, science, culture and communication for tomorrow's world; 2) the advancement, transfer and sharing of knowledge through research, training and teaching activities; 3) standard-setting actions for the preparation and adoption of internal instruments and statutory recommendations; 4) expertise through technical cooperation to Member States for their development policies and projects; and 5) the exchange of specialized information.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the statistical office of UNESCO and is the UN depository for global statistics in the fields of education, science, technology and innovation, culture and communication.

The UIS is the official source of internationally comparable data used to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal on education and key targets related to science, culture, communication and gender equality.

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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

LIST OF FIGURES, BOXES AND TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

1. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

2. ABOUT THE "BUYER'S" AND "USER'S" GUIDES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

3. EMIS DEFINITION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4. EMIS ARCHITECTURE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

5. BUYER'S GUIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.1 The Scope and Context of EMIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.1.1 Key components of an EMIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 5.1.2 How the SDG 4 Indicators have changed the scope of EMIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 5.1.3 The Importance of a data or EMIS policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5.2 EMIS Procurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5.3 A Total Data Quality Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.4 EMIS Functionality and Standards ? Buyer's Guide Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5.5 Additional Minimum Requirements and Standards Related to Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5.5.1 Software requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5.5.2 Database requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 5.5.3 Telecommunications and data networking requirements (including networks and the internet) . . 33 5.6 Future Technology Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

6. USER'S GUIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 6.1 Staff Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 6.2 EMIS Production Life Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 6.2.1 Compilation of the survey questionnaire (design and development) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 6.2.2 The Allocation of unique identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 6.2.3 The Maintenance of the directory (register) of schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 6.2.4 Data entering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 6.2.5 Data storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 6.2.6 Data interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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6.2.7 Data analysis and reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 6.2.8 Data release, data dissemination and data usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 SUGGESTED READING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 ANNEX A. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 ANNEX B. LIST OF SDG 4 INDICATORS AND CONSIDERATIONS FOR EMIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 ANNEX C. SAMPLE EMIS CALENDAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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