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Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality 1995

Mauritius, 1995
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MUS_1995_SACMEQ-I_v01_M
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Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ)
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Questionnaires
Pupil Booklet
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Teacher Questionnaire
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School Head Questionnaire
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Questionnaire for the Country Case Study on Primary Education
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Reports
The Quality of Education : Some Policy Suggestions Based on a Survey of Schools - Mauritius
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Author(s) Dhurumbeer Kulpoo Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development Port Louis, Mauritius
Date 1998-01-01
Country Mauritius
Language English
Contributor(s) Series Editor: Kenneth N. Ross
Publisher(s) International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development, Mauritius
Description This report presents the research results and policy suggestions that emerged from the implementation of SACMEQ's initial educational policy research project. It is offered to other educational planners - not as a final evaluative comment, but rather as a stimulus for constructive discussion of educational policy options, and also as a successful model of productive collaboration among educational planners from many different countries.
Table of contents Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: The setting for the study
- Introduction
- School education in Mauritius
- Finance for education
- Recent plans for educational reform
- Resulting policy concerns
- A response to the policy concerns
- The five main policy-related questions for SACMEQ’s initial project
Chapter 2: The conduct of the study
- Introduction
- Co-operation with SACMEQ
- Instrument development
- Sampling
- Calculation of sampling errors
- Data collection
- Data entry and cleaning
- Conclusion
Chapter 3: What are the baseline data for selected educational inputs to primary schools in Mauritius?
- Introduction
- A note on the interpretation of the data analyses
- Specific policy questions related to educational inputs
- What were the characteristics of Grade 6 pupils?
- What were the characteristics of Grade 6 teachers?
- What were the teaching conditions in primary schools?
- What aspects of the teaching function designed to improve the quality of education were in place?
- What was the general condition of school buildings?
- What level of access did pupils have to books?
- Conclusion
Chapter 4: How do the conditions of schooling in Mauritius compare with the Ministry’s own benchmark standards?
- Introduction
- Basic organizational features of schooling
- Classroom furniture and supplies
- Academic and professional qualifications of teachers and school heads
- Conclusion
Chapter 5: Have educational inputs to primary schools in Mauritius been allocated in an equitable fashion?
- Introduction
- Two approaches to the measurement of equity
- Equity calculations for material resource inputs
- Equity calculations for human resource inputs
- Conclusion
Chapter 6: What is the level of reading for Grade 6 pupils overall and in the three domains of reading literacy?
- Introduction 64
- The structure of the reading test
- The construction of six reading test scores
- Analyses of mastery levels
- Analysis of mastery levels for sub-groups
- Analysis of narrative, expository, and document sub-scales
- Conclusion
Chapter 7: Which educational inputs to primary schools in Mauritius have most impact on the reading literacy achievement of Grade 6 pupils?
- Introduction
- Educational inputs and pupil achievement
- Bivariate relationships
- Construct formation
- A causal model
- Conclusion
Chapter 8: An Agenda for Action
- Introduction
- Classification of policy suggestions
- A four-stage Agenda for Action
- Co-ordination of Ministry responses to the Agenda for Action
- The future
References 95
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Technical documents
Data Building and Data Management
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Author(s) Schleicher A., Saito M.
Date 1995-01-01
Language English
Publisher(s) International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris
Description This chapter describes the data management procedures used by the SACMEQ study, in which data have been collected from many thousands of pupils sampled from complex target populations in association with different educational systems in Southern Africa. Furthermore, data have been collected at different “levels“ (i.e., pupils, teachers, schools) and have been merged, aggregated, disaggregated, etc. prior to the main data analysis. The discussion will therefore focus on the main steps in data management that were required for SACMEQ to take in order to ensure that the quality of collected data is adequate, that data are turned into useful information, and that the more common data management problems are avoided.
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Manual For Data Collectors
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Author(s) SACMEQ NRCs
Date 1995-01-01
Language English
Publisher(s) International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris
Description This manual was prepared for use by the Data Collectors participating in the Initial Project of the Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ).
The manual has four parts.
1. The first part describes WHAT TAKES PLACE AT THE TRAINING SESSION FOR THE DATA COLLECTORS.
2. The second part describes WHAT TASKS MUST BE CARRIED OUT WHEN THE DATA COLLECTOR VISITS A SCHOOL BEFORE THE TESTING DAY.
3. The third part describes WHAT TASKS THE DATA COLLECTOR MUST CARRY OUT ON THE TESTING DAY AT SCHOOL.
4. The fourth part describes WHAT THE DATA COLLECTOR MUST DO AFTER LEAVING THE SCHOOL.
Table of contents INTRODUCTION 1
Part I: AT THE TRAINING SESSION 2
Section A Examination of the Packet of Instruments 2
Section B Filling in the Identification Numbers in the ID BOX 4
Section C Examining the Contents of Each Instrument 6
Section D Other Matters 7
Part II: VISITING SCHOOL BEFORE THE TESTING DAY 8
Section A Explanation to School Head 8
Section B Select Pupils Using Random Number Tables 8
Section C Arranging the Testing Room 9
Part III: ON THE TESTING DAY 10
Section A School Head Questionnaire 10
Section B Teacher Questionnaire 10
Section C Pupil Questionnaire (Session 1) 10
Section D Pupil Reading Test (Session 2) 13
Section E Measuring the Height of Each Pupil 14
Section F After the Testing Has Been Completed 14
Part IV: AFTER LEAVING THE SCHOOL 16
Appendix A: Flow Diagram of Actions
Appendix B: Random Number Tables for the Selection of 20 Grade Six Students within Each Selected School
Appendix C: Pupil Name Form
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Manual for NRCs
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Author(s) SACMEQ NRCs
Date 1995-01-01
Language English
Publisher(s) International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris
Description This manual provides NRCs with important guidelines for their work.
Table of contents 1. Introduction 1
2. Overview of main activities 1
3. Guidelines 3
3.1 Sampling Plan 3
3.2 Country Questionnaire 7
3.3 School letter and School Form 8
3.4 Receipt of instruments 10
3.5 Translation of instruments 11
3.6 Printing of instruments and other materials 12
3.7 Purchase of materials 14
3.8 Organization of logistics of survey 15
3.9 Establishing minimum and desirable levels of achievement 18
3.10 Packaging and dispatch of materials to venues for training of Data Collectors 20
3.11 Training of Data Collectors 23
3.12 Return of instruments and materials 26
3.13 Data entry 27
3.14 Return of data and documentation to IIEP 28
3.15 Data analysis and reporting 29
Appendix A SACMEQ Schedule of Activities
Appendix B (i) Questionnaire for the Country Case Study on Primary Education
(ii) Grade-age table for Namibia: September 1994
Appendix C (i) Model Letter to School Heads
(ii) Short Description of the SACMEQ Survey
Appendix D (i) Pupil Booklet
(ii) Teacher Questionnaire
(iii) School Head Questionnaire
(iv) School Form
(v) Pupil Name Form
Appendix E (i) Instructions for Loading DEM on a Computer
(ii) Procedures for Checking and Cleaning
("The Data Entry Manager Program" - a manual for the use of DEM has been sent to you separately.)
Appendix F (i) Valid Range Forms for Pupil Questionnaire
(ii) Valid Range Forms for Teacher Questionnaire
(iii) Valid Range Forms for School Head Questionnaire
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Pilot Study Manual for Data Collectors
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Author(s) SACMEQ NRCs
Date 1995-01-01
Language English
Publisher(s) International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris
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Pilot Study Manual for NRCs
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Author(s) SACMEQ NRCs
Date 1995-01-01
Language English
Publisher(s) International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris
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Codebook of SACMEQ-I Variables
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Description SACMEQ I - A. Research materials and working papers
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Answer Key and Blue Print for Pupil Reading
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Essential Items on the Pupil Reading Test Along With 'Acceptable" and Desirable: Levels of Performance
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Five 'High Priority" Policy Questions About the Quality of Education and Their Transformation Into Associated Specific Research Questions and Dummy Tables
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Other Materials
Often-used Variables on SACMEQ Archive
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The Purpose of the SACMEQ Project
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Ministry Norms and Benchmarks for Educational Provision in the SACMEQ Countries
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Data Flow
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Accessing the Data from the SACMEQ website
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