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International assessment studies, such as Southern African Consortium for Monitoring Education Quality (SACMEQ), have been playing a major role in informing the education quality debate among policymakers and society in general.
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Lauchande, C., Passos, A., Howie, S.J. (2017). Teacher’s Competence and Performance and Its Effect on Pupil Achievement in Upper Primary Education in Mozambique. In: Scherman, V., Bosker, R.J., Howie, S.J. (eds) Monitoring the Quality of Education in Schools. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-453-4_10
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