Education Policy Comparative Analysis
Goal
Create a structured policy/comparative education analysis with clear cases, dimensions, evidence, and argument.
Inputs
- Policy/topic/countries/regions
- Text corpus: laws, standards, guidelines, official reports, curricula
- Comparison dimension: goals, governance, equity, assessment, teacher policy, AI policy
- Time range
Workflow
- Define comparison cases and rationale.
- Collect authoritative policy documents.
- Build analysis framework/dimensions.
- Code policy texts or extract evidence.
- Compare similarities, differences, mechanisms, and implications.
- Draft policy-analysis paper structure.
Tool Calls
Policy/document management:
Zotero, official ministry/agency websites, OECD/UNESCO/World Bank databases
Text coding:
NVivo, MAXQDA, ATLAS.ti, Python NLP, R tidytext
Visualization:
Excel/Sheets, Mermaid, Power BI
Output Format
| Case/Policy | Dimension | Evidence | Interpretation |
|---|
Include:
- Corpus list
- Comparative framework
- Coding scheme
- Argument map
- Paper outline
Quality Rules
- Use authoritative policy sources.
- Avoid normative claims without textual or contextual evidence.
- Make comparison dimensions symmetrical across cases.