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Direct linkCarnoy, Martin; Arends, Fabian – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
The purpose of this study is to test empirically whether and how classroom and school factors contribute to student mathematics learning gains in the border region of North West province, South Africa and Southeastern Botswana. Our results suggest that in both regions, improving teaching quality has an important impact on how much mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gains
Carnoy, Martin; Ngware, Moses; Oketch, Moses – Comparative Education Review, 2015
We take an innovative approach to estimating student mathematics learning in the sixth grade of three African countries. The study reinforces the notion that beyond the quality of the teaching process in classrooms, national contextual factors are important in understanding the contribution that schooling makes to student performance. Our approach…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Outcomes of Education, Teacher Characteristics, Academic Achievement
Luschei, Thomas F.; Carnoy, Martin – International Journal of Educational Development, 2010
In this paper we discuss results from an analysis of a large dataset that includes virtually all sixth-grade students in Uruguay in 1996. We analyze the relationship between teacher attributes and student achievement scores and we explore the distribution of teachers according to characteristics identified as important by this analysis. We find…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Foreign Countries, Teacher Recruitment, Latin Americans
