EDUCATION POLICIES & EVALUATION SPECIALIST STATISTICIAN/INDEPENDANT CONSULTANT

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1 Pierre VARLY 17 rue Jbel Moussa, # 8 Agdal, Rabat MOROCCO pvarly@gmail.com EDUCATION POLICIES & EVALUATION SPECIALIST STATISTICIAN/INDEPENDANT CONSULTANT COMPETENCIES Project management, Statistical analysis, Education policies & economics, Assessment, Evaluation, Psychometry, International Relations, Training, Communication PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE AT INTERNATIONAL LEVEL CONDUCTING SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTITATIVE METHODS FOR BETTER SOCIAL POLICIES March 2011 For RTI, with Education & Territoires Maghreb Adaptation of SSME contextual questionnaires in Morocco October 2010-February 211- For SOFRECO and MoE Cameroon Team leader Support to test development (french and English language, maths) Capacity building in curricula analysis and item writing Item writing Field trial and item response analysis Training in psychometric Writing of a methodological and practical guideline Setting up an assessment unit More infos September 2010 Pour RTI International : Data analysis and report writing Reading skills (EGRA) data and use of mother tongue in Mali and Senegal 10 july-1 st august 2010 : Mission for UNESCO BREDA in Guinea Bissau : Teachers assessment, data analysis, report writing & communication of results Construction of a teachers database- Data analysis Teachers profiles design Report writing - Training in data analysis & communication of results Presentation of results to Ministry and donors 1

2 May-June 2010 : Creation of a consulting company VARLYPROJECT SARL in Morocco More on 10 april-1 may 2010 : Mission for UNESCO BREDA in Guinea Bissau : Teachers assessment field operations Support to field operations Data entry tools development Training for data entry and data check 29 March 9 april 2010 : Missions for RTI International in Mali and Senegal : Support to communication of the EGRA studies results Training support - Organisation and participation to a workshop on education indicators and communication (SMART Chart)- Statistical analysis of EGRA data Elaboration of communication tools. More details March 2010 : As a volunteer for One Laptop per Child France, design of an evaluation method for XO laptops deployment Paper on the OLPC evaluations, proposal of a methodology of impact evaluation, design of survey tools, OLPC volunteers training, follow uf of the field operations. More details January february 2010 : Internet tools development Lauch of a blog on education (in french and english) varlyproject.wordpress.com More than 9000 visitors Lauch of a web site November 2009 : Mission for UNESCO BREDA in Guinea Bissau : Preparation of a teachers assessment Test development (Portuguese and maths, items elaboration, field trial and item analysis, training of staff, design of the survey plan October 2005-until September 2009: Coordinator of PASEC program CONFEMEN, Dakar- Senegal (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs contract) PASEC is the CONFEMEN learning outcomes assessment regional program created in 1991 and covering 21 countries in francophone Africa and Middle East. Management activities Team leading (6 persons), Training of staff, Supervision of scientific productions Budgeting and reporting, Fund raising, Development of partnerships (IEA, World Bank, UNICEF, ) Liaison with countries, Workshops organization, Management of specific projects (curricula analysis), Recruitment and management of consultants, Networking Technical and scientifical activities Supervision of field work (Mauritius, Gabon, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Côte d Ivoire) Sampling, Data analysis & report writing (Chad, Guinea, Cameroon, Senegal, Gabon) 2

3 Development of the methodology and training modules, Capacity building missions in almost ALL Francophone Africa, Production of papers, Communication of results (ministers, press, international conferences) Website More on Reference : Jean-Pierre Jarousse, Pole de Dakar Coordinator jpjarousse@hotmail.com October September 2005: Project component manager Technical assistance of Benin Ministry of Education PAGE project, Porto Novo-Benin (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs contract) Support to the elaboration of the Education sector plan and election to Fast Track initiative Coordination of technical work on the writing of the plan and the data analysis Modeling of pupils and financial flows, Support to the teachers management policies Preparation of the reporting for education sector review, Contribution to the donor s coordination Support to Education Management Information System School report cards, Teacher s deployment tools School mapping and database, Training of staff at national and regional level More on Reference : Claude Ghionda Former PAGE project manager - cghionda@yahoo.fr September September 2003: Assistant Program Specialist UNESCO Institute for Statistics (permanent position)-montréal, Canada Coordination of UNESCO technical work in the WEI (World Education Indicators) project with OECD Team leading (2 persons), Coordination with OECD, Staff training Data analysis, Development of data cleaning procedures and indicators Country liaison (19 participants), Production of papers, Workshops Briefing notes to the UNESCO Director General More on Reference : Denise Lievesley former UIS director and President of the Royal Statistical Society d.lievesley@uclmail.net April 2001-August 2001 Statistician-COFINOGA (marketing department) - Paris, France Data analysis, impact evaluation January 1999-December 2000 : Statistician-Junior Consultant IHESI (Research Institute of the Ministère de l Intérieur, France) Publication of a report for a change in the production and use of crime statistics in France For the Ministry of Urbanism Audit report on the feasibility of a common statistical framework on organized crime For the European Union Missions in Europe- Liaison with international law enforcement agencies More on Reference : Frederic Ocqueteau Research director f.ocqueteau@freesurf.fr 3

4 March 1998-December 1998 Statistician INED Paris, France Methodological development (biography analysis), Multilevel modeling More on Reference : Daniel Courgeau Research director (retired) courgeau@ined.fr DIPLOMAS & ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 2006 MASTER II IN STATISTICS & ECONOMETRY UNIVERSITE TOULOUSE 1 (Distance learning) Mention Assez bien 1998 MASTER I (MAÎTRISE) OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS TO SOCIAL SCIENCES UNIVERSITE PARIS IX DAUPHINE Mention Bien 1991 MATHEMATIQUES SUPERIEURES (Lycée Pasteur-Neuilly sur Seine) 1990 BACCALAUREAT C (Lycée Alain-Le Vésinet) PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS VARLY P. (2010), Language of instructions and teachers' methods in Mali grade 2 curriculum classrooms, Report for RTI International. VARLY P. (2010), Language of instructions and teachers methods in Senegal grade 3 classrooms, Report for RTI International. BENAVENTE B., VARLY P. (2010), Balanço de competências de docentes em exercício na guiné bissau, UNESCO/BREDA. PASEC (2009), Les apprentissage scolaires au Burkina Faso : les effets du contexte, les facteurs pour agir, Evaluation diagnostique Burkina Faso, PASEC/CONFEMEN, Dakar. PASEC (2007), Le défi de la scolarisation primaire universelle de qualité, Evaluation diagnostique Cameroun, PASEC/CONFEMEN, Dakar. PASEC (2006), La formation des enseignants contractuels en Guinée, Evaluation thématique Guinée, PASEC/CONFEMEN. Dakar. UNESCO INSTITUTE FOR STATISTICS (2002), Financing education : investments and returns, World Education Indicators 2002», Chapter 3, UNESCO/OECD, Paris-Montréal. OCQUETEAU F., FRESNAIS J. & VARLY P. (2002), Ordonner le désordre : une contribution au débat sur les indicateurs du crime, IHESI/La Documentation Française, Paris. 4

5 PAPERS VARLY P. (2010), Evaluation in OLPC :What for? What has been done? What could be done?, Document de travail. VARLY P. (2010), L évaluations des déploiements OLPC: quelles méthodes?, Document de travail. VARLY P. (2009), PASEC presentation-fti partners meeting, Working paper, April 2009 Copenhagen. Varly P. (2009), Current state of learning outcomes data, Measurement of education quality, EPDC Workshop, January LABE O., VARLY P. (2008), Quelles stratégies pour une réduction efficace du taux de redoublement?, Exposé de cadrage de la réunion débat CONFEMEN sur les facteurs essentiels de la qualité, Bujumbura, Document de travail. PASEC (2008), Synthèse des résultats PASEC, Présentation à la 53 ème Conférence Ministérielle, Document de travail, Caraquet, Juin PASEC (2006), Gestion scolaire et réussite éducative, Document de travail, Antananarivo. Two papers in Les Cahiers de la sécurité intérieure, IHESI. BLOG POSTS Please consult a Blog on education in developing countries for personal policy notes, data analysis and useful links LANGUAGES & TRAVEL English Spanish Portuguese Moroccan Arabic Speak, Read, Write, professional mastering Speak, Read, write, professional mastering Read Notions More than 40 countries visited : Trips to Lao, Myanmar & Thailand (2 months), Mexico (3 months), Peru, across USA, Europe, Egypt, Morocco, Dominican Republic, Francophone Africa (15 countries),ethiopia, Mauritius, Argentina, Cambodia, Europe SOFTWARES SAS, Stata, R, Oracle, SQL Server & Access databases, Microsoft office, C, C++, Spip Training in network administration (UNIX) and C & C++ (1997, two months) MILITARY & POST CONFLICT BACKGROUND 1996 National military service- 151 ème régiment d Infanterie de Verdun Volunter for a 4 months peace keeping mission in Ex-Yougoslavia under NATO mandate Missions in Croatia & Bosnia 5

6 SOCIAL & TEACHING ACTIVITIES Volunteer for Salvation Army 1997 Volunteer for free private tuition for low performers pupils (Paris) Private math teachers (individual lessons) OTHERS Marketing questionnaires field administrator HOBBIES Sport (Tennis, Jogging, Bicycle), Travel, Ethnology, Reading, Wood carving, Music 6