A person’s belief in their ability to succeed in a particular situation – their self-efficacy – has a strong impact on their behaviour. As a result, understanding self-efficacy is a key component when interpreting achievement results. In the pursuit of improving South African learners’ achievement in science, Sylvia Hannan and Andrea Juan e ...

This document, and its two companion reports (resource sets) for mathematics (at Grade 5 and 9 level), is ground-breaking with regard to utilizing in a truly diagnostic way for the first time the results from the data collected during the four-yearly TIMSS administration also in South Africa. On permission from the IEA to use and report on the limi ...

Central to the learner performance in assessments (both national and international) in mathematics is the ability to solve problems. The National Curriculum Statement Grades R-12 (DBE, 2011) specifies that it aims to produce learners that are able to identify and solve problems and make decisions using critical and creative thinking. The National C ...

This report serves as a diagnostic indication of South African learner performance in the TIMSS 2015 Grade 5 Numeracy assessment. Several patterns of weakness and suggested remedial actions were identified and it is hoped that this will be beneficial for all role-players and stakeholders in the South African education system. This includes curri ...

This chapter outlines the history and motivations for participation in TIMSS. In the first section of the chapter, we outline the history of South Africa’s participation in TIMSS and the relationship among the key actors, as well as changing perceptions towards the study over time. Secondly, we provide a nuanced description of South African ma ...

This report is presented in three sections: • Part A presents the Introduction and Background and highlights some broad performance trends from the analysis of the Grade 9 TIMSS 2019 restricted use science items. • Part B presents the analysis of individual restricted use science items. • Part C presents ideas for remediation to improve t ...

This report is presented in two sections: 1. Part A presents the introduction and background and highlights some broad performance trends from the analysis of the TIMSS 2019 Grade 9 mathematics restricted use items. 2. Part B presents the analysis of individual mathematics restricted use items. 3. In Part C, items are grouped according to conce ...

This report is presented in three sections: 1. Part A presents the Introduction and Background and highlights some broad performance trends from the analysis of the Grade 5 TIMSS 2019 restricted use science items. 2. Part B presents the analysis of individual restricted use science items. 3. Part C presents ideas for remediation to improve the t ...

This report is presented in two sections: 1. Part A presents the Introduction and Background and highlights some broad performance trends from the analysis of the 2019 Grade 5 TIMSS mathematics restricted use items. 2. Part B presents the analysis of TIMSS 2019 individual restricted use items, as well as ideas for remediation to improve the tea ...