Research Papers and Theses

In Zambia, as the focus shifts from achieving access to primary education to quality of education comes the need to hold schools accountable for the performance of their intakes. In as much as this should be the case, care must be taken to ensure that schools are held accountable only for the things they can influence. School effectiveness research offers the possibility for achieving this in that it is possible to determine school effects on pupil scores by statistically isolating other contributing factors. This therefore offers a possibility for fairly ranking schools according to performance. When school management teams accept the ranking criterion as fair and that what is being measured is the core purpose for which they were set out to achieve, they will strive to improve and consequently make schools better learning environments. ...