Zimbabwe - Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality 2007, SACMEQ-III Project

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Reference ID ZWE_2007_SACMEQ-III_v01_M
Year 2007
Country Zimbabwe
Producer(s) Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ)
Sponsor(s) United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO - Funding the project
Netherlands Government - - Funding and Technical Support
Ministries of Education - - Funding the project
Study website Study website
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Sep 05, 2014
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Data Appraisal
Other forms of Data Appraisal

The quality of the data provided by the school heads, teachers, and pupils was examined in the following ways.
First, at the time of data collection, the data collectors who visited the schools verified, for example
(a) The actual existence and conditions of the school resources such as library, school head office, and staff room, and
(b) The official school records about the information provided by pupils such as their gender, age, days absent, and whether or not their parents were alive.
Second, similar questions were included in the school head, pupil, and teacher questionnaires, and these helped to verify the responses given by the respondents during data cleaning. For example, a question on the existence of a class library was included in both the teacher and pupil questionnaires. Any inconsistencies between the responses of the school heads, teachers, and pupils were followed up by the national research coordinators (NRCs) and corrected during data cleaning.
The processes of generating pupil scores, competency levels, measure of school location, socioeconomic status and tabulations are outlined in the SACMEQ-III Project Results Working Document Number 1 available as external resources.

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