November 2011
Sally Thomas and Massoud Salim
Collecting longitudinal data on educational achievement allows schools and governments allows schools and governments to evaluate school effectiveness. Evidence is provided from China and Zanzibar.
February 2011
Michèle C. Smith
Comparative Education 47 (1), pp. 79-102. DOI: 10.1080/03050068.2011.541678
January 2011
Michèle Smith, Angeline M. Barrett
International Journal of Educational Development. 31 (1), pp. 23-36. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2010.06.006
November 2010
Alphonse Uworwabayeho, Paul Denley and Rosamund Sutherland
This presentation looks at the 'one student, one laptop' programme in Rwanda and discusses its effectiveness in teaching science and mathematics in schools.
November 2010
Michèle C. Smith
This presentation looks at the SACMEQ II data set focussing on background, context and school processes to explain the unaccounted for score variation between schools in the SACMEQ six low income large population group.
November 2010
George Oduro and Mike Fertig
This presentation discusses measures that can be taken at a school level to enhance the quality of education provided. It looks at case studies and examples to show the importance of capacity building and community involvement to education at the local level.
November 2010
Jolly Rubagiza and Anjum Halai
This presentation looks at findings from across the EdQual projects and assess the level of gender equality in classrooms. It shows how more work is needed to improve equitable treatment.
November 2010
John Clegg
This presentation discusses the implications of publishing textbooks with a European language of instruction. It argues that textbooks in European languages are often unreadable to African learners.
November 2010
John Clegg
This presentation argues that teachers provide a more effective pedagogy when using their first language (L1). It demonstrates how reading, writing and speaking suffer when lessons are conducted in a second language (L2)
November 2010
George Oduro and Mike Fertig
This presentation looks at work carried out through an action research methodology that shows how an enhanced leadership role for headteachers can dramatically improve school and education quality.
November 2010
Leon Tikly
This working paper sets out the evolution of the overall approach and framework for researching the quality of education in Africa.
November 2010
Professor Leon Tikly.
This policy brief establishes a model for good quality education. It prioritises context in any situation but suggests that quality education arises from interaction between three key environments.
November 2010
Dr Rita Chawla-Duggan with Dr Kafui Etsey and Professor Vrinda Datta
This policy brief looks at research that shows early childhood care and education to be a significant factor in tackling wider issues of inclusion and equality. However it argues that there is still some way to go in developing adequate links between early childhood care and further education.
November 2010
Michèle Smith
The work presented here investigates which pupil background, school context and school resources (human and physical) factors affect individual pupil academic attainment by concentrating on developing separate multi-level models for individual learners of similar socio-economic status.
September 2010
Angeline Barrett, Michelle Smith
This policy brief suggests targeted investment, basic learning resources and skilled school leadership are key in addressing primary attainment in Africa. It draws on EdQual research using data on 17,000 pupils and their teachers in 1000 primary schools across six countries in East and Southern Africa that identified factors in and out of school affecting pupil scores in reading and maths tests.
July 2010
Michèle Smith, Angeline M. Barrett
This working paper investigates what material resources in the home and social influences give primary school students an advantage in learning to read by analysing data collected by the Southern and East African Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality (SACMEQ) in six low income countries and four small middle income states.
June 2010
Michele Smith
Presentation at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol. 22 June 2010.
April 2008
Proposal for EdQual's SeeQ project, as revised April 2008.
September 2007
Guoxing Yu, Sally Thomas, Angeline. M. Barrett.
Paper presented at 9th UKFIET Conference, University of Oxford, 11-13 September 2007.
September 2007
Guoxing Yu, Sally Thomas
This working paper describes in detail initial analyses of SACMEQ II data, using multilevel modelling techniques, to develop general models of school effectiveness for SACMEQ II member countries and specific models for Tanzania (including Zanzibar). This research was undertaken as part of EdQual’s SeeQ project.
July 2007
Guoxing Yu
This working paper discusses the history and insights of school effectiveness research (SER) from both developed and developing countries. It raises the importance of context in understanding indicator transferability, and outlines the potential contribution to SER knowledge from EdQual’s SeeQ project.
