The effects of school quality on dropout rates in Mali and student achievement in Senegal

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Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Social & Behavioral Science
Department Economics
Author N'Diaye, Idrissa
Title The effects of school quality on dropout rates in Mali and student achievement in Senegal
Date 2014-12
Description International community's commitment to achieve universal primary education triggered an increase in primary school enrollment in the developing world. Unfortunately, this increase in quantity (the number of students) led to the emergence of very big class sizes, multigrade, and double-shift schooling. Accordingly, this study fills a hole in the literature by investigating the impact of multigrade classrooms and doubleshifts on the dropout rate in Mali. Simultaneously, it also examines the impact of not completing the curriculum required on student test scores. Some surprising and interesting results show that schools that have libraries are less expected to have dropouts compared to schools that do not. I also found strong evidence that schools that do not collect fees on a consistent basis are likely to have higher dropout rates compared to schools that do.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Double-shifts; Droupout; Multigrade; Elementary education
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Master of Science
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Idrissa N'Diaye 2014
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 387,564 bytes
Identifier etd3/id/3330
ARK ark:/87278/s6g47zk3
Setname ir_etd
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6g47zk3
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