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The Ark Education Partnerships Group is conducting primary research to develop a value added measure of school performance in Uganda, based on aggregate student progress made during their time in the school. Having conducted the research, they intend to work with the Ugandan government and other stakeholders to determine whether and how this kind of progress measure could be used to drive improvements in the Ugandan education system, for example by improving school accountability. Value added measures are increasingly being used to evaluate school performance in the Global North, including in England, the US and Australia. Ark’s work is the first attempt to see if this type of school performance measure can be used to drive system improvement in the developing world. Further information on the project may be found on ARK's Uganda Value Added webpage.

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This study includes:exam results for 2013 and 2014, including Primary Leaving Exams and Uganda Certificate of Education examsschool surveySocio-Economic Status (SES) survey

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Stratified by region and school type

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

Short questionnaire on the school completed by the head-teacher; short questionnaire on socio-economic status