Mean reading scores for Grade 5 students in Zambia, collected through the Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) projects. The Global Partnership for Education provides this data from major policy research projects conducted between 1995 and 2011.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in the mean reading score over the SACMEQ I, II, and III project periods.
- Benchmark Zambia's Grade 5 reading performance against other SACMEQ member countries using the reported mean score.
- Correlate national reading score data with other education system indicators tracked by the Local Education Group (LEG).
Strengths
- Data originates from a formal consortium (SACMEQ) conducting multi-country policy research.
- Covers multiple assessment cycles spanning over 15 years from 1995 to 2011.
Limitations
- Dataset scope is limited to a single country (Zambia), grade (5), and subject (Reading).
- Sample size, row count, and granularity of student-level data are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ), reported by Zambia's Local Education Group (LEG).
- Collection Method
- Mean score calculated from SACMEQ assessment results.
- Time Range
- 1995-2011 (covering SACMEQ I, II, and III projects).
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Zambia.