Africa's Skill Tragedy: Does Teachers' Lack of Knowledge Lead to Low Student Performance?
, 2016 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
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From educational policy issues to specific research questions and the basic elements of research design [PDF]
, 2005 This module concentrates on such decision-oriented research, and seeks to help researchers identify important issues needing attention, through a systematic ‘mapping’ of the educational territory.
IIPE. Instituto Internacional de Planificación de la Educación +1 more
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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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Measuring Gender inequality and equality in education [PDF]
, 2015 Since 1995, considerable expertise has built up in measuring aspects of gender inequality and equality, and in researching these in education, particularly formal schooling.
Unterhalter, ES
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, 2007 A School Resources Index (SRI) was constructed using the Rasch scaling technique. Data were from the pooled school resource items that were collected from pupils, teachers, and school heads derived from two sub-regional studies undertaken by Southern and Eastern Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) in 1995 and 2000.
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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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Indicators for All?:Monitoring Quality and Equity for a Broad and Bold Post-2015 Global Education Agenda [PDF]
, 2015 This paper sets out to reclaim rights-based thinking on for the current proposals forthe education Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). The proposed indicators areintended to contribute to a broad and bold agenda for education quality compatiblewith the ...
Barrett, Angeline M. +1 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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Measuring Progress with Tests of Learning: Pros and Cons for "Cash on Delivery Aid" in Education [PDF]
This paper reviews, in non-technical terms, the case for and against using tests of learning for measuring annual educational progress within programs of “progressbased aid.” It addresses three questions about testing in developing countries.
Marlaine Lockheed
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東南部アフリカ諸国における数学学力と言語的な側面の関連性について : 読解力に焦点を当てたSACMEQ Ⅱ・Ⅲの二次分析から <研究論文>
, 2014 This study reveals the relationship between students’ mathematics achievement and linguistic aspects including their reading achievement from a viewpoint of cross-national comparisons by making secondary analysis of SACMEQ II and SACMEQ III data set.
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