Southern African Consortium for Monitoring in Education Quality (SACMEQ)

Staffing

P. Griffin (with K. Ross [UNESCO IIEP, Paris]; N. Postlethwaite [ Hamburg ]; F. Voigts [UNESCO, Harare ])

Summary

The project established procedures to link the literacy assessments in Southern African nations - Zimbabwe, Zanzibar, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, Uganda, South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Botswana, Malawi, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. A training project was offered to participants in the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning in Paris. Subsequent data analysis led to further UNESCO projects in Santiago and South Africa. A national Research Co-ordinators meeting to discuss analysis was conducted in the Seychelles and Paris.

Funding

UNESCO

Publications

Nguyen,T K.C, Wu, M. & Gillis, S., (2005) Factors influencing achievement levels in the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) II investigation Referred paper to be presented at SACMEQ International Invitational Research Conference, Paris, France, September 28-30.

Murimba, S., Nzomo, J., Keitheile, M., Leste, A., Ross, K., Saito, M., Dolata, S., Ikeda, M., Postlethwaite, T. N., & Griffin , P. (2002). Monitoring the quality of Education for All: Some examples of different approaches used by the Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality. Dar-es- Salaam , Tanzania : SACMEQ Ministers of Education at MINEDAF VIII Meeting, Dar-es-Salaam.

Griffin, P. (2001). Levels of competence in literacy and numeracy for SACMEQ II. Paper presented at the Working Meeting of SACMEQ National Research Co-ordinators on “SACMEQ II Policy Report Preparation”. Paris : France , 10-15 October.

Griffin , P. (2001). Report to the National Research Coordinators for the Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality . United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organisation. Mahe: Seychelles , 20-27 June.

Griffin, P. (2001) Non response in SACMEQ 2 test data. Assessment Research Centre; The University of Melbourne.

Griffin, P. (2000). A global analysis of achievement in developing nations. Report prepared for UNICEF. Education for all: UNICEF, Dakar , Senegal

Griffin, P. (1998). An introduction to the Rasch model. Report prepared for the Latino Americano de Evaluacion de la Calidad de la Education. Santiago , Chile .

Griffin, P. (1997). Introduction to the Rasch model. A report for the Latin American Assessment Project. Assessment Research Centre, The University of Melbourne: Melbourne .

Griffin, P. (1997). Introduction to the Rasch model: Developing equivalent scores from a common item pool. UNESCO-International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris .

Griffin, P. (1997). Monitoring is an international phenomenon. Directions in Education, 6(7), p.3.