Monitoring Educational Performance in the Caribbean

Abstract

This story represents the first attempt at providing a comprehensive quantification of educational outcomes in the Caribbean region. Its main objectives were to: 1) define a set of operationally relevant education indicators, to be used in countries of the Caribbean region; 2) provide a database of comparable education indicators in Caribbean countries where data are available, namely, Belize, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago; and 3) propose methods on how the common set of indicators could be used for analyses of the education sectors. The study gave rise to the development of a special database on Caribbean Education Indicators, which was included in the EDStats website. Part II of the report includes the country profiles and comparative tables part of this database.