The purposes of assessment. Within the educational system everyone has a stake in the outcomes of schooling: students, parents, business and industry, government and society. Each group for different reasons feels the need to be aware of the progress that is being made in studentsâ learning.
SokodÃ© is the second largest city in Togo and seat of the Tchaoudjo and Centrale Region in the center of the country, 339 kilometres north of LomÃ©. With a population of 86,500, currently at around 113,000, the city is situated between the Mo and Mono rivers, and it is a commercial center for the surrounding agricultural areas. It is a multi-ethnic and multi-religious city, but is dominated by Islam.
Boko means inauthentic or fake, says Mohammed Kabir of the BBC's Hausa Service. It does not literally mean education. The word's evolution is bound up with colonialism. In 1903 the Sokoto caliphate, which ruled parts of what is now northern Nigeria, Niger and southern Cameroon, fell under British control.