Lessons learned from regional experiences in learning assessment - PASEC.

Evaluating the quality of education is a complex undertaking that remains uncommon in African countries. Indeed, comparative data conveying a precise idea of the situation as to the quality of education in Africa are still only very rarely available. Several programmes, such as the Programme for the Analysis of Educational Systems of the CONFEMEN1 countries (PASEC), are attempting to compensate for this shortage of data on the quality of education. The present document makes a modest contribution to appraising the quality of primary education in some 10 countries in French-speaking Africa, relying essentially on the PASEC database.