The SACMEQ IV Project International: a study of the conditions of schooling and the quality of education

SACMEQ IV project represents a major increase in the scale and complexity of SACMEQ’s research and training programmes. The focus of the project was on conditions of schooling and the quality of education in fourteen school systems. Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The consortium determined that the purpose of the project was to gather data and rigorously analyze them to generate information on a) the general conditions of schooling, b) the reading and mathematics achievement levels of Grade 6 learners and their teachers, and c) the knowledge that learners and their teachers have about HIV and AIDS.