Improving Madagascar's Primary Education : A Focus on Schools
This report analyzes the results of research on primary and secondary education in Madagascar in order to identify the school-level factors which have the most influence on student learning and on whether students stay in school. Also included are...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1994/12/1614986/improving-madagascars-primary-education-focus-schools http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10006 |
| Summary: | This report analyzes the results of
research on primary and secondary education in Madagascar in
order to identify the school-level factors which have the
most influence on student learning and on whether students
stay in school. Also included are crude estimates of the
resources that will be needed and which might be available
to invest in providing or establishing these factors by the
year 2000. The study combines analyses of quantifiable
issues--economic decline, population growth, the size and
internal efficiency of the education system, and education
financing--with more qualitative concerns--school climate,
the teaching/learning process, and the socio-political and
cultural context--in order to capture the multi-faceted
reality that will shape the future of primary and secondary
education in Madagascar. The focus is on schools. The study
examines the factors that determine school effectiveness,
and the conditions in schools that help children learn.
Central to the study are observational case studies of 12
primary sch, 12 junior secondary (CEG), and 12 senior
secondary (lycee) schools that a Technical Group from the
Ministry of Education conducted in 1993/94. The results of
the primary school cases are compared with a 1991 evaluation
of students' achievement and the factors that
contribute to that achievement and with a forthcoming study
on primary school wastage. |
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