Assessing the readiness of six participating countries to report key education data

This chapter is divided into two sections. The first section presents the assessment framework used to evaluate countries’ capacities to participate in PISA for Development (PISA-D) by reporting against the project’s system-level questionnaire – it looks at the results by questionnaire and reports i) the overall assessment of each country, ii) the quality and availability of information and data for each country, and iii) the challenges encountered. The second section presents a summary of the overall results by country, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each. The chapter shows that participating countries are generally in a good position to report the requested data. Quality data and metadata are generally available in all of the countries, or can be produced with some additional work. One challenge is that each country has a number of institutions responsible for the different dimensions covered by the questionnaire. However, in all cases, the institution responsible for PISA-D project management has shown a good level of communication with the relevant institutions and organisations.