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Eape 733: Quantitative Analysis In Educational Planning Question Paper
Eape 733: Quantitative Analysis In Educational Planning
Course:Master Of Education In Management
Institution: Chuka University question papers
Exam Year:2010
INSTRUCTIONS:
ANSWER THREE QUESTIONS IN ALL. QUESTION ONE IS COMPULSORY.
Q.1 You are newly employed to be in-charge of the ministry of education planning department. During your orientation you observe that data had not been taken seriously in the department and little data is available. In your demographic analysis course at the University you were informed that, to plan without data is like walking in the dark without a direction. Describe the type of data you will put in place and illustrate how these data will be useful in the planning of the education system. [20 marks]
Q.2 A developing country is making efforts to attain 100% enrolment ration in line with the millennium development goals. You have been commissioned to advice the policy makers on the correct strategy. As one of your options, calculate in how many years will full enrolment be attained in the school system with alternative annual increase in enrolment of 2.5%, 3.6%, 8.5%, 12.3% and 15% if the present enrolment in the primary school is 1,086,270, the present population of the primary school age is 2,482,034 and the estimated annual increase in population is 3.7%. From your calculations, provide the necessary policy options to the government. [20 marks]
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Q.3 You are provided with the following manpower projection data.
2010 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Output
0.02 0.035 0.04 0.06
0.92 0.91 0.89 0.87
(a) Project the committed enrolment and output for the period covered. [13 marks]
(b) The education system plans to produce 50,000 graduate teachers within the next ten years. How would you solve the problem of deficit if any? [7 marks]
The data below presents enrolments, repeaters and graduation from a four year education cycle in a developing country. Us the data provided to answer Q4 and Q5.
Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Graduates
2006
2007
2008
2009
8500
7243 6818 6548
12,358 762
14,596 417
12,097 847
14,329 628
16,912 709
10,213 512
13,896 862
13,205 934
10,819 308
9,418 1,024
11,023 341
9,561 469
9,724 854
13,172 724
10,418 842
9,117 925
8,026
8,251
9,178
8,914
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Q.4 From the data calculate to 3 decimal places.
(a) Actual grade survival rate in 2007. [6 marks]
(b) Graduation rates for all the years. [4 marks]
(c) Grade dropout rates in 2008. [6 marks]
(d) Average year per graduate for the grade one 2006 cohort. [2 marks]
(e) Grade repeater rate in 2009. [2 marks]
Q.5 From computation of grade retention rates and grade wastage rates for the education presented, describe the efficiency of the education system by grade and provide the viable policy options to correct the situation. [20 marks]
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