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The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality. Assessment GEMs No. 8
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Australian Council for Educational Research, 2015
The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) carries out large-scale cross-national research studies in member countries in the Southern and Eastern Africa region. It aims to assess the conditions of schooling and performance levels of learners and teachers in the areas of literacy and numeracy. SACMEQ has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Researchers, Educational Quality
The Impact of Large-Scale International Assessments: A Case Study of How the Ministry of Education in Namibia used SACMEQ Assessments to Improve Learning Outcomes
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Makuwa, Demus K.; Maarse, Jan – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2013
This article highlights the rationale for Namibia's participation in three studies which were conducted under the auspices of the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) during the period 1995-2007. The article provides some of the innovative ways in which the results of the first (SACMEQ I, 1995) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Explaining Learning Gaps in Namibia: The Role of Language Proficiency
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Garrouste, Christelle – International Journal of Educational Development, 2011
In a multilingual context, this study investigates the role on mathematics achievement of the provision of instruction in the home language. It compares characteristics of 5048 Grade 6 learners in 275 Namibian schools. The outcome variable is the standardized SACMEQ mathematics score collected in year 2000. Hierarchical linear modeling is used to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Multilingualism, Language Role, Foreign Countries
School Resources and Academic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Lee, Valerie E.; Zuze, Tia Linda – Comparative Education Review, 2011
We investigate links between students' achievement and several resource inputs in African primary schools, using data from the 2000 Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ-II). We focused on four sub-Saharan countries that had in place legislation mandating free and universal primary schooling: Botswana,…
Descriptors: School Size, Grade Repetition, Academic Achievement, Educational Quality