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Hope or Despair? - Learning in Pakistan's Primary Schools (Hardcover, New)
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Hope or Despair? - Learning in Pakistan's Primary Schools (Hardcover, New)
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Hope or Despair? asks what promotes and what holds back student
learning in Pakistan's government-sponsored primary schools. Using
a national sample of schools, students, teachers, and supervisors,
it shows how learning is affected by student background, teachers
and teaching, school supervision, facilities, and innovation. It is
the first book to use achievement tests based on the national
curriculum to show influences on learning in the primary schools of
an entire developing country. The study also explores why some
students complete primary school and others do not. The overall
quality of education in Pakistan's government primary schools is
low, but student learning rises with the teacher's formal education
and with certain teaching practices. Student social class, a strong
influence on learning in the United States, makes little difference
in Pakistan. Whether the teacher is male or female has no
relationship to learning in science, but it does affect achievement
in mathematics. Neither supervision nor school facilities are
related to achievement. This unique study will be of great interest
to those concerned with schooling effectiveness in developing
countries as well as to economists, sociologists, and political
scientists interested in human resources in those countries.
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