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Reflecting on an impact evaluation of the Grade R programme: Method, results and policy responses

Abstract: This paper describes the expansion since 2001 of a public pre-school programme in South Africa known as ‘Grade R’, summarises the findings from an…

February 15, 2015 By: Debra Shepherd, Servaas van der Berg PDF

Continuous assessment and matriculation examination marks—an empirical examination

Abstract: This study analyses information and feedback from matriculation-level continuous assessment in the South African education system in 2005. Continuous assessment (CASS) at the…

February 8, 2015 By: Debra Shepherd, Servaas van der Berg PDF

The Gospel according to Banerjee and Duflo

Excerpt: In their latest book, Poor Economics, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee present a highly readable overview of the problems facing the world’s poor…

June 21, 2014 By: Nic Spaull PDF

Settler skills and colonial development: the Huguenot wine‐makers in eighteenth‐century Dutch South Africa

Abstract The institutional literature emphasizes local conditions in explaining divergent colonial development. We posit that this view can be enriched by an important supply‐side…

June 15, 2014 By: Dieter von Fintel, Johan Fourie PDF

The changing role of teachers in reversing poverty and inequality: evidence from Botswana

Abstract This study explores the important relationship between policy variables that represent a school’s human resources and product variables in the form of student…

April 26, 2014 By: Tia Linda Zuze PDF

School resources and the gender reading literacy gap in South African schools

Abstract The importance of reading literacy as a foundation for academic success is widely acknowledged. What is less well understood is why gender patterns…

April 23, 2014 By: Tia Linda Zuze, Vijay Reddy PDF

Poverty & Privilege: Primary School Inequality in South Africa

Abstract: The strong legacy of apartheid and the consequent correlation between education and wealth have meant that, generally speaking, poorer South African students perform…

October 25, 2013 By: Nic Spaull PDF

The impact of the introduction of grade r on learning outcomes

In December 2012 the Department of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) in the Presidency in partnership with the Department of Basic Education (DBE) commissioned an…

October 4, 2013 By: Chris van Wyk, Debra Shepherd, Servaas van der Berg, Elizabeth Girdwood, John Kruger, Janeli Viljoen, Olivia Ezeobi, Poppie Ntaka PDF

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Reflecting on an impact evaluation of the Grade R programme: Method, results and policy responses

Continuous assessment and matriculation examination marks—an empirical examination

The Gospel according to Banerjee and Duflo

Settler skills and colonial development: the Huguenot wine‐makers in eighteenth‐century Dutch South Africa

The changing role of teachers in reversing poverty and inequality: evidence from Botswana

School resources and the gender reading literacy gap in South African schools

Poverty & Privilege: Primary School Inequality in South Africa

The impact of the introduction of grade r on learning outcomes

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