Araya, Mesele; Rolleston, Caine; Rose, Pauline; Sabates, Ricardo; Tiruneh, Dawit; Woldehanna, Tassew; (2025) Tracking Learning Outcomes in Ethiopia: How Large-Scale Educational Reform Shaped Student Attainment from 2012/13 to 2018/19. Africa Education Review 10.1080/18146627.2025.2504043. (In press).

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This study examines the impact of Ethiopia’s General Education Quality Improvement Programme Phase II (GEQIP-II) by comparing the learning outcomes of two grade 4 cohorts, one before and one after its implementation. Using student learning data collected in 2012/13 (pre-reform cohort) and 2018/19 (post-reform cohort), we matched the data at the school level while controlling for baseline characteristics. The results indicate that the post-reform cohort began grade 4 with a lower average test score than the pre-reform cohort. However, over the academic year, the post-reform cohort showed a modestly higher learning gain, especially in rural schools. This suggests that the reform contributed to higher learning progress over the school year, albeit from a lower initial learning level that might be attributed to the unprecedented expansion of education and the influx of first-generation learners into the system driven by the reform itself. These findings highlight the need for policies that sustain learning progress while simultaneously improving access.

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