Volume 8: Issue 1 – Inequalities in mathematics

Volume 8: Issue 1 – Inequalities in mathematics

TIMSS SA Newsletters
Published in 2023
Cycles: TIMSS 2019

Ideally, achievement outcomes should only reflect differences in learners’ abilities and effort. However, in most educational systems, the outcomes or achievement gaps are also associated with characteristics such as race, gender, socioeconomic status of the home and school, and geographic location. In this newsletter we illustrate the inequalities in mathematics outcomes, or achievement gaps, for TIMSS 2019 using Grade 5 and Grade 9 South African data.