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HIV-related discrimination among grade six students in nine Southern African countries. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2014
Maughan-Brown B, Spaull N.
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Achievement in mathematics: Comparative analysis from East Africa

, 2016
This chapter examines the available data on achievement across the region, including two datasets based on surveys in the primary sector-Uwezo and SACMEQ-and O levels and equivalent.
Tennant, Geoff D, Dr, Sarungi, Veronica, Geoff Tennant, Veronica Sarungi   +3 more
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Redistributive social justice in Southern and East Africa: Investigating the affect of social & economic differences on primary pupils’ literacy scores

, 2009
This paper considers what multilevel modelling approaches to analysing large scale cross-national surveys of education quality can tell us about redistribution in education, one of Fraser’s three dimensions of social justice.
Smith, MC, Barrett, AM
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Capabilities for learning to read: An investigation of social and economic effects for Grade 6 learners in Southern and East Africa

, 2011
This paper considers what multilevel modelling approaches to analysing large scale cross-national surveys of education quality can tell us about the capabilities that support primary school children in learning to read.
Michèle Smith, Angeline M. Barrett, Smith, M.C, Barrett, A.M   +3 more
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Interactive apps prevent gender discrepancies in early-grade mathematics in a low-income country in sub-Sahara Africa. [PDF]

Dev Sci, 2019
Pitchford NJ, Chigeda A, Hubber PJ.
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School effects on non-verbal intelligence and nutritional status in rural Zambia. [PDF]

Learn Individ Differ, 2016
Hein S, Tan M, Reich J, Thuma PE, Grigorenko EL.   +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, Leste A, Benstrong E, Burns CM, Valentin J, Sloane-Reeves J, Huang LS, Miller WA, Gunzler D, van Wijngaarden E, Watson GE, Zareba G, Shamlaye CF, Myers GJ.   +13 more
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Education in South Africa: some points for policy coherence

, 2015
This chapter reviews the educational outcomes in South Africa in the period following the fall of apartheid in 1994. The first part of the chapter reviews some of the salient features of the period following South Africa's emergence as democratic state ...

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Accountability of primary schools in the Seychelles : a stakeholder analysis [PDF]

While school accountability continues to gain national prominence in the highly centralised Education System of the Seychelles, concerns have been raised as to how accountable school leaders and teachers are in the primary schools.
Figaro, Veronique
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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, Yarnell LM, Prescott CA, Raine A, Venables PH, Mednick SA.   +5 more
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