- South African mathematics and science achievement, though improving, is still low and socially graded. Achievement gaps confirm the story that advantage begets advantage and home disadvantage continues to school.
- Periodic measurement of learning achievements is key to understand the health of our education system.
- Measurement of achievement occurs through school-based assessments, national and provincial systemic studies, regional (SACMEQ) and international studies (TIMSS and PIRLS).
Outline and contents
- What is TIMSS?
- Who participated in TIMSS 2019?
- TIMSS Items: Grade 5 Mathematics
- TIMSS Items: Grade 9 Mathematics
- Average mathematics and science achievement and score distributions, 2019
- Change in Grade 9 mathematics and science achievement, 2003 to 2019
- Grade 5 South African achievement: 2015 -2019
- Grade 9 performance by ability level, 2019
- Learnings from achievement over 25 years
- Provincial Achievement and Gaps, Grade 5, 2019
- Provincial Achievement and Gaps, Grade 9, 2019
- Change in Grade 9 mathematics and science achievement by province, 2011 to 2019
- Mathematics Achievement by School fee-status & Gap
- Achievement by Gender and Gaps 2019
- Writing Gaps: Learners answering Selected and Constructed Response correctly
- Grade 5 & 9 mathematics performance internationally, 2019
- Match between TIMSS and CAPS