The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality SACMEQ

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The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortiumfor
Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ)
FTI Meeting Copenhagen, Denmark 20 April 2009

• Break Out Session on
• Experience in Measuring Learning Outcomes
• Kenneth N. Ross, IIEP (UNESCO)

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What is SACMEQ?
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Zanzibar
Seychelles
Malawi
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Namibia
Mozambique
Mauritius
Botswana
Swaziland
South Africa
Lesotho
a consortium of 15 Ministries of Education
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SACMEQs Mission

• To undertake integrated research and training
  that will develop the capacities of educational
  planners to
• Monitor and evaluate the conditions of schooling
  and the quality of their own basic education
  systems
• To generate research based information that can
  be used by decision-makers to plan for
  improvements in the quality of education.

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Origins

• SACMEQ has developed
• From an experimental research and training
  project initiated by the IIEP in one country
  during 1989-1994
• Into an independent developmental network of 15
  Ministries of Education in the Southern and
  Eastern Africa region.

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SACMEQ Assembly of Ministers of Education
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Phase 2 (1995-1998) IIEP as the facilitator for
the SACMEQ I Project
Phase 3 (1999-2004) IIEP as the external friend
for the SACMEQ II Project
Phase 4 (2005-2009) IIEP as one of several
external friends for SACMEQ III Project
Phase 1 (1989-1994) IIEP as the initiator of an
experimental research training programme.
Evolution of SACMEQ
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SACMEQs Approach to Quality

• SACMEQ is more than an assessment system
• SACMEQ adopts a holistic approach to quality
  that includes elements of
• educational inputs, processes and outcomes
• SACMEQ investigates (a) the achievement levels of
  pupils, and their teachers, as well as (b) the
  conditions under which teaching/learning takes
  place.

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The SACMEQ Conceptual Model

• School Characteristics
• type, location, enrolment, resources, principals
  qualification, parental involvement etc.
• Learner Characteristics
• Age, Sex, Attendance, Repetition, SES, Nutrition,
  Home help etc
• Teacher Characteristics
• Age, Sex, Qualifications
• Behaviour, In-service tr.
• Classroom resources etc

• Learner Achievement
• Reading
• Maths
• Health

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SACMEQ Policy Cycle
Policy Evaluation Phase Policy Research Phase
Policy Development Phase
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Use of SACMEQ results (national)

• To inform presidential commissions of inquiry
  into education (Namibia, Zimbabwe)
• As inputs in education sector analyses (Kenya,
  Uganda)
• To develop national assessment systems (Lesotho,
  Uganda, Zambia)
• For the development of education policy
  investment frameworks or programmes (Malawi,
  Zambia, and Uganda)
• For the development of education sector master
  plans or strategic plans (Mauritius, Namibia,
  Mozambique)
• In educational reforms and school improvement
  initiatives (Seychelles, Namibia, Lesotho,
  Zambia)
• Strengthening of national EMIS

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Use of SACMEQ (international)

• To inform the formulation of regional and global
  strategies for the development of education
  systems in Africa and elsewhere
• Regional EFA Plans,
• SADC Human Resource Development Sectors
  programmes,
• NEPAD's strategic framework,
• EFA Global Monitoring Report.
• Use of SACMEQ Data Archive by university
  professors, independent researchers, doctoral and
  other post-graduate students.

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Why is SACMEQ so successful?

• Co-operative working style
• Institutional capacity building thru "learning by
  doing" approach African collaboration.
• Research cycle based on policy concerns of
  decision-makers
• Research, Development, and Evaluation.
• Employment of the best research methodologies
• Sampling procedures, instruments, data entry
  cleaning (Use of relevant software).

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PART II

• New Challenges for SACMEQ
• Visualization of Research Results

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SACMEQ Data Archive

• Data files
• Country files and mega file
• Data from different units of analysis (school
  heads, teachers, and Grade 6 pupils) have been
  merged at pupil level.
• Technical documents
• Policy concern documents
• Instruments
• Reports and articles, etc.

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SACMEQ Website contains

• Useful research-based information about the
  quality of education in Africa.
• SACMEQ research reports
• Published articles
• Training modules in Quantitative Research
  Methods in Educational Planning

www.sacmeq.org
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