PASEC 2019 Fact Sheet

Long title
Programme d’analyse des systèmes éducatifs de la CONFEMEN
Frequency of data collection
Every 5 years
Previous cycles
2014
Schedule
Objectives
  • Study the level of efficiency and equity of primary education systems, as well as changes in the achievement of these objectives in the countries concerned.
  • Identify those factors influencing quality and educational equity that are applicable to primary education systems, schools, teachers, and students.
  • Provide national policy makers in the Francophone countries with indicators for monitoring and mutual comparison.
  • Contribute to the country-level development of national education systems and foster research through a knowledge community.
  • Disseminate evaluation results at the national and international levels.
Assessment domain(s)
  • Early mathematics
  • Mathematics
  • Early reading and language
  • Reading comprehension
  • Teaching reading comprehension
  • Teaching mathematics
Study framework (summary)
ACHIEVEMENT TEST

Students

Grade 2

  • Language
    • Listening comprehension
    • Reading-decoding
    • Reading comprehension
  • Mathematics
    • Arithmetic
    • Geometry, space, and measurement

 

Grade 6

  • Language
    • Decoding isolated words and sentences
    • Reading comprehension
  • Mathematics
    • Arithmetic
    • Measurement and size
    • Geometry and space

 

Teachers

  • Reading comprehension
  • Reading comprehension didactics
  • Mathematics
  • The didactics of mathematics

 

CONTEXTUAL FRAMEWORK
Participating entities

Fourteen French-speaking African countries

 

List

Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, République Démocratique du Congo/Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinée/Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Niger, Senegal, and Togo

Target population and sample (summary)
TARGET POPULATION

Students

  • Grade 2 (formal education)
  • Last grade (Grade 5 or 6) of primary school (formal education)

 

Teachers

  • All teachers in the schools that participated in PASEC 2019.

 

SAMPLE (Intended)

Students

  • Grade 2: One classroom in each school and then 16 students in each classroom were targeted.
  • Grade 6: At least 180 schools were targeted; one classroom in each school and then 25 students in each classroom.

 

Teachers

All teachers in the sampled schools

 

Data collection techniques and instruments (summary)
ACHIEVEMENT TESTS

Students

Grade 2

  • Two tests: language and mathematics
  • One-to-one administration
  • Around 30 minutes per test
  • One test per day
  • One common booklet

 

Grade 6

  • Two tests: reading comprehension and mathematics
  • Collective administration
  • Pencil and paper
  • Multiple-choice questions
  • Maximum 2 hours per test; split across 2 sessions of 1 hour each.
  • One test per day
  • Four rotated booklets

 

Teachers

  • Collective administration
  • Paper-pencil test
  • Four rotated booklets

 

CONTEXTUAL QUESTIONNAIRES
  • Student questionnaire
  • Teacher/Class questionnaire
  • Principal/School questionnaire
Initiator
Study director(s)
Contact

PASEC

Complexe Sicap Point E, Immeuble C,
3e étage, Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop
BP : 3220 Dakar Sénégal
Tél. : (221) 33 859 29 79

confemen@confemen.org

pasec@confemen.org