PROGRAMME FOR ANALYZING EDUCATION SYSTEMS OF CONFEMEN…€¦ · PROGRAMME FOR ANALYZING EDUCATION SYSTEMS OF CONFEMEN’S COUNTRIES MEMBERS (PASEC) PASEC: A new vision Assessment

PROGRAMME FOR ANALYZING EDUCATION SYSTEMSOF CONFEMEN’S COUNTRIES MEMBERS (PASEC)

PASEC: A new visionAssessment for serving Education For ALL

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CONFEMEN aims at:

• informing its members of the evolution of educationsystems and ongoing reforms;

• provide key inputs for a reflection on topics of commoninterest in sight of collaborative action;

• propel cooperation between Ministers and experts inorder to elaborate common positions and propose re-commendations to support regional and internationalpolicies in education.

CONFEMEN is the first strategic cooperation institu-tion set up by Francophone countries in 1960. Thischoice clearly shows that education and training havealways been a priority for the French-speaking world.

PROGRAMME for ANALYZING EDUCATION SYSTEMSOF CONFEMEN’s COUNTRIES MEMBERS (PASEC)

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Since its creation in 1991, over twenty education systemsin Africa and Asia have carried out skills assessment diag-nosis of pupils in 2nd and 5th years of primary education inmathematics and teaching language.


PASEC, a supporting tooldestined to monitoring edu-cation systems of CONFE-MEN’s Countries Members

Throughout each study, PASEC is engaged incapacity building in favor of national teamsand in the emergence of a real culture of lear-ning outcomes assessments.


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The rationalefor the PASEC’snew vision

PASEC has produced a set of national evaluationsidentifying the added-value of the 2nd and 5th

years through the administration of a pre-testand post- test at the start and end of school year

while determining factors associated to the effec-tiveness of national education systems. An emphasis was especially placed on national eva-luations and not on international comparability of re-sults which was set a secondary objective.

Two PASEC’s impact studies reveal:• little actions have been taken by national policymakers in relation to results-based recommenda-tions provided by PASEC;

• a low level of empowerment of national teams.

Building on these findings, reflection was conductedand new orientations have been proposed to PASEC.The orientations have been validated by the Ministersassembly subject to the elaboration of a sustainableplan.

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PASEC’s neworientations Moving from national to internatio-

nal evaluations

PASEC is also considering the development of tools fordiagnosis, remedial and prevention of learning difficultiesat the beginning of primary education.

The general objective pursued by CONFEMEN through thenew orientations given to PASEC is to better contribute tonational and international debates so as to improve thequality of education.

Informing on evaluation results that will be achieved inthree key schooling moments: • the beginning of schooling• the end of primary education;• the end of basic education (college).

The new PASEC methodology will allow on one hand, thecomparison of an educational system with another at agiven moment, and on the other hand the comparison ofan education system with itself over time.

International comparisons will also enable CONFEMEN’scountries members to assess the impact of educationalreforms over time and better piloting their educationsystem.


• Identifying factors associated to efficiencyand equity in education systems at thelevel of basic education while analyzing theperformances of pupils, teachers andschools;

• provide national stakeholders indicatorsthat will allow them to compare their edu-cations system with other and overtime inspace and time, in an African Francophoneand Anglophone context;

• publish internationally, PASEC evaluationresults to provide information on the evo-lution of performances of education sys-tems of CONFEMEN countries andcontribute to the reflection and discus-sions on factors determining the quality ofeducation;

• pursue, in each participating country thedevelopment of an internal and permanentcapacity of evaluation of educational sys-tems and stimulate research while crea-ting a community by organizing encountersand training.

• provide tools for diagnosis, remedial andprevention to facilitate learning at school.

PASEC’sspecificobjectives

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• In order to ensure of international comparability, assessmentswill henceforth be grouped and carried out at the same timein all selected countries;

• PASEC will conduct in May 2014 the first pooled internationalassessment in ten countries for the 6th year of the primary, inconjunction with SACMEQ;

• the international results of this assessment will be publishedin the first quarter of 2016;

• PASEC wants to organize waves of evaluations every 5 years;

• starting from 2019, grouped evaluations will concern the be-ginning of primary, the end of primary and possibly the end ofbasic education;

• CONFEMEN through PASEC also plans to pursue assess-ments of the early grades (2nd or 3rd year of the primary) onthe basis of new assessment tools (tests).

PASEC’snew strategies

International evaluations


• The development of measurement instruments in the6th year and for the beginning of learning in 2012;

• testing measurement instruments is scheduled in theten countries for April-May 2013;

• final data collection will take place in April-May 2014;

• the second final data collection for the beginning andend of the primary will take place in April-May 2019. Itspreparation will be launched in the 1st quarter of 2016.

Finally, CONFEMEN’smember countries aremore committed to setthe basic educationcycle at 10 years. Thispolicy requires beingable to benefit from re-sults on the achieve-ments of pupils at theend of this schoolingperiod (end of collegeeducation). PASEC could develop, in the medium term, aninternational performance evaluation of pupils at thislevel.

A feasibility study of assessments at end of basic educa-tion and the definition of the reference framework willbegin in 2013.

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Implementation Timetable


Evaluation of early learning: creatingan innovative tool for education systems

PASEC wishes to seek, very soon, a new partnership withthe GRA/GPE via the AFD to develop assessment toolsat the beginning of primary education. Its main objec-tive is to identify the skills and difficulties of childrenearly in schooling, before the difficulties crystallize, lea-

ding to failures or dropouts.

Contextual elements will be considered to better understandthe living and educational conditions of children.

They are:• linguistic practices of children in their families beforeschool: local language(s), national language and instruc-tion language;

• conative dimensions: self-confidence, self-esteem, hopeof success;

• elements that characterize the living standards of chil-dren.

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Strengthening the capacitiesof national teams

One of the primary objectives of PASEC is tostrengthen the capacities of national teams atassessing education systems of CONFEMEN’scountries members.

PASEC training will focus on three points:

• training in understanding and conducting PASEC assess-ments organized during international meetings;

• training in interpreting international reports, in conduc-ting statistical analyses on databases and writing natio-nal reports

• methodological trainings upon request of national teamsto conduct their own research (sampling, scores analy-sis, and statistical modeling…)

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CONFEMEN has chosen to strengthen its measure-ment instruments and methodological procedures toimprove the quality and efficiency of education sys-tems of its countries members and in compliance withthe standards of major regional and international eva-luation programmes such as PISA, PIRLS, TIMSS andSACMEQ.

CONFEMEN wishes to count on the support of itscountries members and of the international commu-nity in its new approach.

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