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  1. Deakin University, (Australia)

    Kenneth N. Ross (Programme specialist at the International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO). Reader)

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Author of numerous publications on the use of social indicators to guide decisions concerning resource allocation within education systems. Co-editor of Planning the Quality of Education (IIEP-UNESCO and Pergamon Press). His research interests are focused on indicators of the quality of basic education in developing countries.

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Ross, K.N. Sample design for international studies of educational achievement. Prospects 22, 305–316 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02195953

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