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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
Engaging with Voices: Ethnographic Encounters with the Gambian Language-in-Education Policy
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Juffermans, Kasper; Van Camp, Kirsten – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2013
Drawing on fieldwork in a primary school in rural Gambia, West Africa, this article foregrounds the notion of voice as analytical heuristics for understanding language in education. Arguing for more attention to voices from the field and for critical reflection on the researcher's voice in research, the article addresses the ways in which school…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Elementary Schools, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Actual Instructional Time in African Primary Schools: Factors that Reduce School Quality in Developing Countries
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Benavot, Aaron; Gad, Limor – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
Educational theorists and researchers have long considered time a key component of individual learning. Caroll, in his classic model of school-based learning, conceptualized achievement as an outcome of two time variables: first, the amount of time a learner is engaged in learning; and second, an individual's learning rate. Caroll's ideas…
Descriptors: Researchers, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality