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Gold medal for ACER researcher’s work in Kenya ACER Research Fellow Dr Njora Hungi was awarded a Gold Medal for a presentation he delivered to the IIEP-UNESCO International Invitational Educational Policy Research Conference in Paris in September. The paper, Explaining differences in mathematics and reading achievement among Standard 6 pupils in Kenya: Emerging policy issues, was awarded the gold international research medal by a panel of experts on the basis of the paper’s academic merit, potential for educational policy impact and quality of presentation. The study examined factors at the pupil, class and school levels that influenced achievement in mathematics and reading of Standard 6 primary school pupils in Kenya and also examined performance of schools across provinces in Kenya. The data for the study was collected as part of a major project (known as Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality) that sought to examine the quality of education offered in primary schools in Kenya as well as in primary schools in another 14 Southern African countries. Results show that age, home background and pupil-teacher ratio are important factors in the prediction of achievement in mathematics and reading at Standard 6 level in Kenya. When school effectiveness was examined, there was no significant difference in performance of primary schools across provinces in Kenya. The exceptions were schools in Nairobi Province, which appeared to perform significantly above average in reading, but not in mathematics. Further information The full paper is available online at http://www.sacmeq.org/conference.htm or Download the full report in PDF format: Explaining differences in mathematics and reading achievement among Standard 6 pupils in Kenya: Emerging policy issues « Back to eNews
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ACER Research Fellow Dr Njora Hungi was awarded a Gold Medal for a presentation he delivered to the IIEP-UNESCO International Invitational Educational Policy Research Conference in Paris in September. The paper, Explaining differences in mathematics and reading achievement among Standard 6 pupils in Kenya: Emerging policy issues, was awarded the gold international research medal by a panel of experts on the basis of the paper’s academic merit, potential for educational policy impact and quality of presentation.

The study examined factors at the pupil, class and school levels that influenced achievement in mathematics and reading of Standard 6 primary school pupils in Kenya and also examined performance of schools across provinces in Kenya. The data for the study was collected as part of a major project (known as Southern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality) that sought to examine the quality of education offered in primary schools in Kenya as well as in primary schools in another 14 Southern African countries.

Results show that age, home background and pupil-teacher ratio are important factors in the prediction of achievement in mathematics and reading at Standard 6 level in Kenya. When school effectiveness was examined, there was no significant difference in performance of primary schools across provinces in Kenya. The exceptions were schools in Nairobi Province, which appeared to perform significantly above average in reading, but not in mathematics.

Further information

The full paper is available online at http://www.sacmeq.org/conference.htm

Download the full report in PDF format:
Explaining differences in mathematics and reading achievement among Standard 6 pupils in Kenya: Emerging policy issues

Gold medal for ACER researcher’s work in Kenya

Further information