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Frameworks for the Analysis of Monitoring Data Related to Achievement

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Monitoring the Quality of Education in Schools

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Increasingly the purpose of monitoring education systems is to evaluate achievement progress across subjects in schooling in response to global calls for improving quality of education for all (Howie, 2013).

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Howie, S.J., Scherman, V., van Staden, S. (2017). Frameworks for the Analysis of Monitoring Data Related to Achievement. 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_11

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