Making Every Dollar Count: How Expected Return Can Transform Philanthropy [PDF]
, 2008 Describes the benefits and methods of a quantitative process for evaluating potential program investments -- based on benefit, likelihood of success, the foundation's contribution, and cost -- to maximize return on ...
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UPE and Social Inequality in Uganda: A Step Backward or a Step in the Right Direction? [PDF]
It is widely agreed that studying the relationship between school quality and academic achievement will benefit public investment in education. This is particularly true in Africa where, the 1990 World Conference on ‘Education for All’ led to renewed ...
Murray Leibbrandt, Tia L. Zuze
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Lessons learnt from SACMEQII: South African student performance in regional context [PDF]
In regional context, South African students benefit from above average levels of public and private education resources. However, their performance on international tests – including SACMEQII (Southern African Consortium for Monitoring Educational ...
Megan Louw, Servaas van der Berg
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The costs of illiteracy in South Africa [PDF]
In South Africa there has been a surge in publicly funded adult literacy education in recent years. There is a recognition that for the effective monitoring of adult literacy, direct measures of literacy are required.
Cobus Burger +3 more
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Africa's Skill Tragedy: Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance? [PDF]
, 2015 Student performance in Sub-Saharan Africa is tragically low. We study the importance of teacher subject knowledge for student performance in this region using unique international assessment data for sixth-grade students and their teachers. To circumvent
Bietenbeck, Jan +2 more
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Using learning profiles to inform education priorities: An editors' overview of the Special Issue. [PDF]
Int J Educ Dev, 2021 Crouch L, Kaffenberger M, Savage L.
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Improving school management in low and middle income countries: A systematic review. [PDF]
Econ Educ Rev, 2023 Anand G +4 more
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International Database on Human Capital Quality [PDF]
In this research work, we have used a methodology which enables us to obtain qualitative indicators of human capital (QIHC) for 105 countries. This methodology relies on the potential to reconsider survey results comparatively by analysing the results of
Hatidje Murseli, Nadir Altinok
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The Role of School Resources and National Educational Context in Student Learning Gains: Comparing Botswana, Kenya and South Africa [PDF]
, 2015 We take an innovative approach to estimating student mathematics learning in the sixth grade of three African countries. The study reinforces the notion that beyond the quality of the teaching process in classrooms, national contextual factors are ...
Carnoy, M, Ngware, M, Oketch, MO
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A systems perspective on early childhood development education in South Africa. [PDF]
Int J Child Care Educ Policy, 2022 Venter L.
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