STEP Organization
Study director(s)
The World Bank - Jim Yong Kim, President
- Overall management of entire survey
- Organization and training of staff responsible for the STEP household survey
- Preparation of merged data for analysis
- Data cleaning and processing
Institutions and their responsibilities
International Consortium (Waves 1-3)
Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- Provided firms with specific guidelines and training for the
- Administration of the literacy assessment
- Scoring of the literacy assessment
- Merged literacy assessment data with STEP background questionnaire data
- Responsible for
- Data entry of literacy assessment
- Quality assurance of literacy assessment data
cApStAn
- Implemented linguistic quality
- Assurance processes
- Control processes
- Translation verification
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA Hamburg)
- Designed the software and procedures for survey firms used for entering the information from the STEP literacy booklets
- Data management
- Data cleaning and processing
National Survey Firms
- Project management
- Fieldwork team composition
- Data collection
- Fieldwork monitoring processes
- Scoring of the reading literacy booklets
- Data entry
- Checks to verify data quality
- Adaptation of the materials from the English source files according to the translation and adaptation guidelines provided with the materials
Contact
The World Bank
1818 H Street,
20433 NW Washington, DC
USA
Tel : (202) 473-1000
Fax: (202) 522-2615
Funding
Financial support to implement the STEP Skills Measurement surveys was received from the Bank Netherlands Partnership Program (BNPP), the Multi-Donor Trust Fund for Labor Markets, Job Creation and Economic Growth (MDTF) and the Russia Education Aid for Development (READ) Trust Fund.
