Educational reform in Morocco in the light of TIMSS evaluation Multi-level analysis of Moroccan data from TMSS 2011
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The purpose of this study is to analyze Moroccan TIMSS 2011 data using the multi-level approach in order to detect the entanglement of factors that influence the academic performance of students in the second year of college secondary education (grade eight ). The main question is, what is the influence of factors related to the individual characteristics and characteristics of the school attended on the performance of students in mathematics? This question can be answered in many ways:
1. Does student achievement in mathematics vary by school?
2. Is there a significant relationship between the socio-economic and cultural characteristics of the students and their performance in mathematics? the main question is whether the effect of socio-cultural variables linked to the family context (in particular family educational resources) tends to worsen when they interact with the contextual variables of the school. This raises the question of both the efficiency of schools and the equitable distribution of performance in mathematics. The question can be formulated in the following way: Does the effect of socio-cultural variables at the individual level increase with contact with socio-economic variables at school level?
3. To what extent do the contextual variables of the school (school climate, educational resources available to schools, etc.) have a moderating or amplifying effect on the relationship between the socio-cultural variables linked to the family context of students and academic performance in math?
4. And what are the determinants of the quality of academic performance defined according to TIMSS standards?
Added to this is the question of what has been the impact of the educational reform on the dynamics of school organizations and on the quality of academic performance.
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