Explaining learning gaps in Namibia: The role of language proficiency [PDF]
In a multilingual context, this study investigates the role of language skills on mathematics achievement. It compares characteristics of 5048 Grade-6 learners in 275 Namibian schools.
Garrouste, Christelle
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The Effectiveness of Inputs in Primary Education: Insights from Recent Student Surveys for Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2009 With SACMEQ and PASEC there are now two large data bases available on student achievement, socio-economic background and school and teacher characteristics in both anglophone and francophone sub-Saharan Africa.
Wechtler, A +7 more
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Human Resource Inputs and Educational Outcomes in Botswana’s Schools: Evidence from SACMEQ and TIMMS [PDF]
This study explores the important relationship between policy variables that represent a school’s human resources and product variables in the form of student performance in Botswana’s schools.
Tia Linda Zuze
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Using the hierarchical linear model to understand school production in South Africa [PDF]
The emphasis placed in the existing South African school production function literature on better skilled teachers and better school management is discussed.
Martin Gustafsson
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Equity & efficiency in South African primary schools : a preliminary analysis of SACMEQ III South Africa [PDF]
, 2012 Thesis (MComm)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The many and varied links between student socioeconomic status and educational outcomes have been well documented in the South African economics of education literature.
Spaull, Nicholas
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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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What we can learn from a comparison of the schooling systems of South Africa and Argentina [PDF]
An existing accounting framework to describe an education system is elaborated and used as a framework for understanding and comparing the resource allocation policies of the South African and Argentinean schooling systems. The comparison highlights how,
Alejandro Morduchowicz +1 more
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Exploring school effects across southern and eastern African school systems and in Tanzania
, 2008 The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) II data are analysed, using multilevel modelling techniques, to explore the key issues underlying the development of school effectiveness models.
Yu, G, Thomas, SM
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Gender Equity in Mathematics Achievement in East African Primary Schools: Context Counts [PDF]
Although primary school enrollment is gradually on the increase in the developing world, differences in mathematics achievement between girls and boys persist. A complex combination of factors that is related to issues of the home environment, the school
Tia L. Zuze, Valerie E. Lee
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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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