Modeling Framework for Understanding the Dynamics of Learning Performance in Education Systems

Both developing and developed countries allocate a substantial amount of their budgets to their education sectors in an attempt to improve the learning performance of the students at each stage in the education system. The stages in the system, generally, include Early Childhood Development (ECD), Elementary and Secondary (K-12), and Post Secondary Education (PSE). This paper illustrates that in designing effective policies to improve learning performance, it is important to understand how stages in the education system interact over time. This paper presents a modeling framework that can be used to evaluate the implications of success in one stage to other stages of the education system. This research helps in understanding “where and why ” to focus education system reform efforts in order to improve the performance of the students throughout all stages of the education system