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Some useful resources related to Education Management Information Systems (EMIS)

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• Education Management Information Systems (EMIS): Case Studies and Lessons Learned

Some additional EMIS resources

Perhaps the most useful quick overview of EMIS can be found in:

• Education Management Information System (EMIS): Integrated Data and Information Systems and Their Implications in Education Management
  This paper by Haiyan Hua (Harvard University) and Jon Herstein (now with the Research Triangle Institute, RTI) was presented at the Annual Conference of Comparative and International Education Society (New Orleans, LA, USA: 2003).  Previously unavailable on the Internet, the authors have generously granted permission for infoDev to post this paper.  

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UNESCO has done some good work related to EMIS.  Notable publications include:

• Education Management Information Systems (EMIS): A guide for young managers
  T.N. Wako; NESIS/UNESCO, 2003  
• Education Management Information Systems (EMIS): An Overview
  T.N. Wako; NESIS/UNESCO, November 2003
• Sustainable EMIS: Who is Accountable?
  This short paper by Luis Crouch appears in UNESCO's "From Planning to Action: government initiatives for improving school-level practice".  (Chapman, D. and Lars Mahlck, eds)  UNESCO IIEP, 1997. 
  (Please note: This is a Word document.)
• NFE-MIS Handbook: Developing a sub-national non-formal education management information system
  C. Connal; UNESCO 2005.
• Information tools for the preparation and monitoring of education plans
  L. Carrizo, C. Sauvageot and N. Bella; UNESCO 2003.
  

UNESCO's "OpenEMIS"  software is a generic tool designed by its Division of Educational Policies and Strategies.  It is issued without condition or restriction for use by all those who wish to adapt it to the features and information needs of their national education system in order to build an Education Management Information System.

• OpenEMIS - Software for building an Education Management Information System (EMIS)
   

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The Inter-American Development Bank recently sponsored two good short pieces by Tom Cassidy on EMIS in Latin America and the Caribbean:

• Education Management Information System (EMIS) Development in Latin America and the Caribbean: Lessons and Challenges
  
• Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) in Latin America and the Caribbean
  (Please note: This is a PowerPoint presentation.)

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The Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century (PARIS21) has posted a draft version of Robin Ellison's A practical guide to working with Education Management Information Systems: Guidance for DFID Advisers.

The on-line journal Techknowlogia published a very short overview of EMIS by Kurt Moses, Information Systems for Education Management.

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