Educational access in south Africa: country analytic review [PDF]
, 2007 Meaningful access to education requires more than full enrolment; it requires high attendance rates, progression through grades with little or no repetition, and learning outcomes that confirm that basic skills are being mastered.
Carrim, Nazir +5 more
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement [PDF]
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages
Hanushek, Eric A., Woessmann, Ludger
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How to interpret the growing phenomenon of private tutoring : human capital deepening, inequality increasing, or waste of resources ? [PDF]
Private tutoring is now a major component of the education sector in many developing countries, yet education policy too seldom acknowledges and makes use of it.
Dang, Hai-Anh, Rogers, F. Halsey
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The Role of Education in Economic Growth [PDF]
This study examines the effect of the quantity and quality of education on economic growth. Using a number of proxy variables for the quantity and quality of education in a cross section of low and medium income countries, this study finds that education
Cooray, Arusha
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The Quality Education in Developing Countries Initiative Grantmaking Strategy [PDF]
, 2008 Outlines Hewlett's theory of change and strategy of investing in accountability for learning, proven instructional models, and effective use of sufficient resources as a way to address barriers to better education quality in sub-Saharan Africa and ...
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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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Grundbildung in Malawi: Neuere Entwicklungen der Sektorpolitik, realistische Handlungsperspektiven und Vorschläge für ein gestuftes Monitoringsystem [PDF]
Diese von der KfW in Auftrag gegebene Studie ist Teil der Vorarbeiten für die zurzeit von verschiedenen Gebern anvisierte Korbfinanzierung Grundbildung in Malawi.
Michaelowa, Katharina, Wechtler, Annika
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The internationalization of the educational problems and the homogenization of educational reforms further than Latin América: The case of Mozambique [PDF]
, 2016 Mozambique inicia en 1992 un proceso de reformas educativas que suponen un cambio de paradigma desde las tesis socialistas al planteamiento educativo neoliberal.
Aguadero Miguel, Ramón
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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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