Synthesis of the ICP Questionnaires related to findings of the AFIDES report

This paper is based on a survey conducted via a questionnaire administered to schools selected according to criteria of effectiveness in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia. The principals of these schools were asked to respond, on the basis of their own thoughts and experience, to the findings of a study on the relationship between the quality of school leadership and the effectiveness of the school. The questionnaire items had to do with categorization of schools, their distance from the capital city, the description of the relationship studied, the principal's point of view on the findings, standards of success, dropout and repetition rates, attendance (overall and by sex), successful learning and management of sub-standard performance.