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Language development and science achievement
Volume 19 Number 2
Published in: 2021
Authors: Vijay Reddy / Jaqueline Harvey
Keywords: Education and Languages / Language and Literacy / Science Achievement in South Africa
Item readability and science achievement in TIMSS 2003 in South Africa
Secondary analysis of TIMSS results
This study investigated the relationship between readability of 73 text-only multiple-choice questions from Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 and performance of two groups of South African learners: those with limited English-language proficiency (learners attending African schools) and those with better English-lan ...
Published in: 2007
Authors: Edith R. Dempster / Vijay Reddy
Keywords: Inequality in South African education / Languages / Readability
Improving teaching and learning through the South African Annual National Assessment: Challenges, possibilities and solutions
This policy brief has provided a vision of how a large-scale assessment such as ANA can support and improve teaching and learning. The challenges inherent in using the analyses from ANA data in informing school improvement policies and strategies are acknowledged. Through this policy brief, it is argued that large-scale assessment, when directly li ...
Published in: 2013
Keywords: Learning environment / Learning Programmes in South Africa / Successful teaching tool
Have we reached gender equity in mathematics education?
Evidence from TIMSS South Africa 2011
Published in: 2016
Authors: Tia Linda Zuze / Vijay Reddy / Andrea Juan / Mariette Visser / Lolita Winnaar / Sylvia Hannan
Keywords: Gender equality / Gender equity / Mathematics Education
Educator leave in the South African public schooling system
All employees are entitled to take leave. The general leave measures are set out in the Basic Conditions of Employment Act(No. 75 of 1997) and the Labour Relations Act (No. 66 of 1995). For institution-based educators, these measures appear in the Personnel Administrative Measures (PAM) (Government Gazette Vol. 404 No. 19767). The leave measures
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Published in: 2012
Authors: Cas Prinsloo / Vijay Reddy
Keywords: Education in South Africa / Educators / Primary School Teachers / Teacher classroom practices
Educational outcomes: Pathways and performance in South African high schools
Published in: 2012
Keywords: Educational outcomes / Pathways and performance
Education and Labour Market Inequalities in South Africa
Chapter in "Social Justice and Education in the 21st Century: Research from South Africa and the United States"
Framed within notions of social justice, inequality of opportunity and Bourdieu’s
forms of capital, this chapter examines the gaps in educational and labour market
outcomes in South Africa and how they have changed over time. With social
policies aimed at redressing inequalities introduced from 1994, we track the
changes in school mathematics ...
Published in: 2021
Authors: Vijay Reddy / Bongiwe Mncwango
Keywords: Education / Labour market inequalities / South African labour market
Does it matter if students enjoy learning science?
Exploring student attitudes towards science in South Africa
Published in: 2016
Keywords: Attitudes to science / Enjoy science / School science
Does it matter if learners enjoy learning science?
Human and Social Dynamics Research Seminar
Published in: 2017
Keywords: Science and the public / Science Grade 5 / Science Grade 9
Cross‐national achievement studies: learning from South Africa’s participation in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Volume 35, 2005 - Issue 1: Educational change and evaluation in Eastern and Southern Africa