Study of the programs of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa and the international referentials of the 1st cycle of secondary school in language, mathematics and sciences with a view to producing a specification table for a PASEC type evaluation
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The goal of this project is to provide KIX Africa 21 member countries with a core of common knowledge and skills for lower secondary school curricula in language, mathematics and science. This core of knowledge and skills will ultimately be used to develop large-scale international assessment instruments such as PASEC. Thus, the project consists in carrying out a comparative study of the mathematics, language of instruction, physical sciences and life and earth sciences curricula of the last level of the first cycle of secondary school in the member countries of the KIX Africa 21 center, so as to (1) bring to light the divergences and, above all, the points of convergence of the contents of these curricula; (2) compare these points of convergence with international standards in terms of large-scale evaluation; (3) develop a proposed specification table specifying for each of these disciplines the domains, pedagogical objectives and cognitive processes commonly targeted in teaching-learning in the target countries.
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Maude Lefebvre
Bachelor student in secondary education, Science and technology profil (UQAM)Maude Lefebvre
Étudiante au baccalauréat en enseignement secondaire, profil science et technologie (UQAM)Maude Lefebvre is a bachelor’s student in secondary education, science and technology profile. She is particularly interested in the didactics of science and technology and the integration of the different teaching disciplines between them. She is currently a research assistant for the UNESCO Chair in Curriculum Development. -
Stéphane Cyr
Professor (UQAM)Stéphane Cyr
Professeur (UQAM)Stéphane Cyr is a Ph.D. in dactics of mathematics and associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at UQAM, where he has been working for 20 years in the training of primary and secondary school teachers. He is a co-holder of the UNESCO Chair in Curriculum Development since 2018. Researcher on several major grants with this Chair, he has conducted numerous works on curriculum reforms in Africa (Benin, Togo, Guinea, Gabon, Madagascar, Senegal, Mauritania, Niger, Cameroon, DRC (Congo)). He has helped support the education systems of these countries to improve the quality of primary and secondary teacher training, and has also developed several teaching materials adapted to these contexts. Professor Cyr is also interested in the study of video games for learning mathematics in primary schools. He is developing educational video games in collaboration with a Quebec company specializing in this field (Ululab). The game Slice Fractions designed through this collaboration has received numerous awards and distinctions around the world. -
Patrick Charland
Professor (UQAM)Patrick Charland
Professeur (UQAM)Patrick Charland is Professor at the Department of Didactics at UQAM. For more than fifteen years, he has developed expertise in curriculum development, as well as initial and continuing training for elementary, secondary and university teachers in Quebec and internationally. A regular member of the Observatory of Education Reforms (ORÉ-UQAM), then a representative of the Faculty of Education Sciences at the UNESCO Chair in Curriculum Development, he participated in several capacity development projects. In addition, as a science and technology didactician, he has developed expertise in neuroscience education. He is interested in better understanding the learning techniques by collecting various neurophysiological data, live, during the learning process. His work is part of a new perspective in education sciences, generating massive data (big data) and using analytical perspectives associated with machine learning.
Cyr, S., Miled, M., Charland, P., Cabuzel, C., Lefbvre, M. (2022). Étude des programmes des pays d’Afrique subsaharienne et des référentiels internationaux du 1er cycle du secondaire en langue, en mathématiques et en sciences en vue de la production de tableaux de spécification d’une évaluation type PASEC. Rapport de recherche remis au Pôle KIX Afrique 21, Dakar.