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Title:Research on school effectiveness on pupils' achievement in developing countries with special reference to Malawi: some methodological issues
Authors:Peresuh, Munhuweyi
Kadzamira, ChipoISNI
Year:1997
Periodical:Zimbabwe Journal of Educational Research (ISSN 1013-3445)
Volume:9
Issue:1
Period:March
Pages:65-91
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs., ills.
Geographic terms:Malawi
Central Africa
Subjects:academic achievement
secondary education
education
schools
students
developing countries
Abstract:Studies undertaken in developing countries have consistently found that, unlike in developed countries, schools exert a more powerful impact on academic achievement than home background. However, this finding is undermined by a number of conceptual and methodological flaws in the research. If multilevel models and better measures of socioeconomic background are used, the results begin to resemble those obtained from Western countries using multilevel models. The present article reports on a study of the determinants of student achievement in Mathematics and Chichewa in secondary schools in Malawi using a multilevel approach. The study found that the variance in student achievement due to school was 20 percent for Chichewa and 10 percent for Mathematics. Over 80 percent of total variation was at student level in both subjects, with prior achievement explaining the largest proportion of variation in students' outcomes. App., bibliogr., sum.
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