EFFECT OF ENTRY AGE ON SCHOOL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM BOTSWANA [PDF]
, 2017 Literature indicates that students’ relative age in school affects performance. This phenomenon has been studied in the developed world using strict school entry age for causal identification.
Tsayang, Gabatshwane +2 more
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Managing the teacher pay system: What the local and international data are telling us [PDF]
A review of a few input-output models indicates the importance of teacher ability, which may be independent of years of training, for improving pupil performance. A historical analysis confirms the substantial pay increases experienced by teachers in the
Firoz Patel, Martin Gustafsson
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School production modelling to strengthen government monitoring programmes in developing countries [PDF]
, 2006 Thesis (MEcon)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.Education production function analysis is widely recognised as one important area of research that needs to inform education policymaking, specifically policy relating to the mix of funded inputs in a ...
Gustafsson, Martin Anders
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Disparities in Pupil Achievement among Schools in Kenya : Analysis of SACMEQ II Data
, 2012 The paper examines the factors that affect disparities in pupil achievement among primary schools in Kenya through an analysis of data from the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) II.
子浦, 恵, SHIO, Megumi
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The cost-effectiveness of inputs in primary education: Insights from recent student surveys for sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
, 2007 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, Annika +2 more
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School effects on non-verbal intelligence and nutritional status in rural Zambia. [PDF]
Learn Individ Differ, 2016 Hein S +4 more
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Fish consumption, mercury exposure, and their associations with scholastic achievement in the Seychelles Child Development Study. [PDF]
Neurotoxicology, 2010 Davidson PW +13 more
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Schooling as a Lottery: Racial Differences in School Advancement in Urban South Africa [PDF]
This paper develops a stochastic model of grade repetition to analyze the large racial differences in progress through secondary school in South Africa.
David Lam +2 more
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Childhood cognitive measures as predictors of alcohol use and problems by mid-adulthood in a non-Western cohort. [PDF]
Psychol Addict Behav, 2015 Luczak SE +5 more
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Should Touch Screen Tablets Be Used to Improve Educational Outcomes in Primary School Children in Developing Countries? [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2016 Hubber PJ +5 more
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