Zoom on the indicators of quality: from determinants to the monitoring of the results Regional semin

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Zoom on the indicators of quality from
determinants to the monitoring of the results
Regional seminar for the TFP of
EducationDakar, 2005
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• Measurement of the quality of education
• Assessing student learning (reading, writing,
  calculation)
• And not
• Measurement of the means

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Which measurements for the quality ?

• Standardized international tests
• National exams

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As part of the PASEC

• Tests conducted to the pupils
• Relationship between learning achievement and
  contextual variables

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1. Student learning level
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Mean score estimated of student learning in a
sample of African countries
Source A. Mingat, biennale ADEA,October 2003.
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2. Determinants of student learning (of the
quality)
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Methodology used by the PASEC theoretical model
Scholarship conditions
Initial level
Final level
Pupils individual characteristics
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Which factors have an influence on learning
achievement ?

• Conditions to measure the effect of those
  factors
• Variety and representation
• taking into account a cumulative process
• Necessity to measure the net effect of the
  factors

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3. Cost-effectiveness analysis
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General results

• Not a single factor which determines the quality
• Not a unique recipe for all countries

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A few influential factors
Learning achievement
Initial vocational training
School textbooks
Exchanges between teachers
Initial vocational training
Repetition
costs
Double flux
Source PASEC
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Many ways to combine the whole factors Room for
manoeuvre
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• Emergence of an improvement track of the quality

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Weight of the different categories of factorsin
10 countries having taken part to the PASEC
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Class effect

• About 24 of the differences in the student
  learning achievement in the studied countries
• The number is around 10 for the northern
  countries
• Major levers to enhance the quality still to be
  identified

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Illustration of teachers effectMean progress in
Mali Grade 2
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Cost-effectiveness relation in Tchad
Unit cost (F CFA)
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Underlying questions about pedagogical management

• Local level (school or classroom)
• School-based monitoring
• Effective instructional time
• Teachers motivation
• Pedagogical practices

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To conclude

• Existence of substantial rooms for progress
• Necessity to take into account the results in
  the current management practices

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