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Allier-Gagneur, Z.C.; Gruijters, R. J. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2023
Data from sub-Saharan Africa show that many students leave school without the skills they need. To address this issue, it is important to understand what factors influence learning. According to the Heyneman and Loxley effect established in 1983, in low income countries school quality influences how much students learn more than those students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Resources
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Smith, Michele; Barrett, Angeline M. – International Journal of Educational Development, 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. The impact of pupil background characteristics on achievement in reading towards the end of the primary cycle in sub-Saharan…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economic Status, Low Income, Grade 6