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Appendix 4: Review process and search terms
Figure showing four-phased review process
Phase I: Scoping
Phase II: Evidence
appraisal
Phase III: Synthesis
of findings
Phase IV: Peer
review and
revision
Rapid appraisal of
policy debate
Identify testable
hypotheses and
assumptions
Rigorous searches for
evidence and data
Compile master
bibliography
Map the evidence and
highlight key gaps
Summarise quality and
strength of evidence in
favour of/against hypotheses
Key advisors and
policymakers in DFID
review report
Final, revised report
submitted to DFID
Rapid appraisal of
literature
Assess quality of
evidence
Set out implications
for policy-makers
Findings dissemintated
to key stakeholders
Draft working theory
of change
Design review
methodology
Synthesise findings on
hypotheses and
assumptions
Identify unintended
consequences
Produce an evidencebased
theory of
change
Findings published in
peer-reviewed
journals
Table of search terms
Key search terms
Synonyms
Educat* 20
school – tutor*- learn – teach –instruct – pedagog*- + provider/ provision
And
Privat* - market – neoliberal - fee – cost - low cost/ LCPS - low fee / low-fee /
LFP – elite / high / middle fee
+
Supply - effect - effective – cost - quality - financ* - sustainab*– capacity -
achieve* - attain* - outcome – standards – improvement - perform* -
selection - technolog* - innovate* - profit - evaluation - teacher – labour
– deploy - access – equity - disadvantag* - marginal - poor /poverty –
excluded / exclusion - girls - social justice / inclusion / inclusive /
segregation / cohesion -
Or
Demand -user – client – consumer - parent - choice / choose– decision / decide –
inform* - bounded rationality - perception / perceive - opportunity pay -
price – expenditure / expense – invest - afford - household – microfinance
- competition – migration/migrate - accountab* -
20 Truncation was used so that searches would return words with different endings, e.g. Educat* =
education, educating, educate.
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