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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
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Murimo, Adelino Evaristo – Perspectives in Education, 2013
The third study by the "Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality" (SACMEQ) revealed that achievement in mathematics among Grade 6 children in Mozambique is declining, and gender differences favouring boys persist. This study examined the contribution of parents, economic resources and cultural factors on…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables
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Murimba, Saul – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2005
Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) is fast emerging as a globally recognized initiative in the area of the monitoring and evaluation of educational quality, and the results of its research and training have not only been used within the member countries, but elsewhere too. SACMEQ has had a presence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Quality, Educational Change, Consortia
Davis, Martin A., Jr. – Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute, 2005
"Miracle" is a word you would expect to hear from people familiar with the Assumption Catholic School story--but don?t wait for it. More likely you will hear a name: Mary Anne Stanton. In just more than five years, Stanton has led Assumption and 12 other Catholic schools from high-poverty Washington, D.C. neighborhoods into a…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Consortia, Urban Schools