Servaas van der Berg has recently undertaken some work for the World Bank in Lesotho as part of a Public Expenditure Review.
July 9, 2018 PDF
RESEP education research has a strong emphasis on empirical research in a broad range of policy-related issues including teacher knowledge and training, early-childhood outcomes, accountability, socioeconomic status, and school effectiveness. Policy application is one of the central aims of the research.
Education
Principal leadership changes in South Africa: Investigating their consequences for school performance
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP01/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP01/2016 Abstract: A rising number of school leadership changes have been occurring in South African schools as a large proportion…
July 4, 2018 PDF
Teacher supply and the quality of schooling in South Africa. Patterns over space and time
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP03/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP03/2016 Abstract: The paper addresses policy questions in South Africa’s education system using a newly merged 1999 to 2013 panel…
July 4, 2018 PDF
Treating schools to a new administration: Evidence from South Africa of the impact of better practices in the system-level administration of schools
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP05/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP05/2016 Abstract: School examination results are far from ideal measures of progress in schooling systems, yet if analysed with sufficient…
July 4, 2018 PDF
Graduate unemployment and Higher Education Institutions in South Africa
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP08/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP08/2016 Abstract: The emerging consensus regarding high and rising levels of graduate unemployment in South Africa in recent years has…
July 4, 2018 PDF
Interrogating a Paradox of Performance in the WCED: A Provincial and Regional Comparison of Student Learning
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP14/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP14/2016 Abstract: The Western Cape, one of South Africa’s better performing provinces in terms of educational outcomes, has a relatively…
July 4, 2018 PDF
Higher Education Access and Outcomes for the 2008 National Matric Cohort
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP16/2016This study uses a unique dataset to investigate university access, throughput, and dropout for the 2008 national matric cohort. The findings show that university access in South Africa is limited, even among learners who perform relatively well in matric.
July 4, 2018 PDF
Disentangling the language effect in South African schools: Measuring the impact of ‘language of assessment’ in grade 3 literacy and numeracy
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP19/2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP19/2016 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to exploit an unusual occurrence whereby a large group of South African…
July 4, 2018 PDF
The “Funda Wande: Teaching Reading for Meaning” project aims to help address the fact that most (58%) South African children don’t read for meaning, by developing a high-quality, free, open-access and SAQA-approved course: the ‘Certificate in Teaching Early Grade Reading.”
July 2, 2018 PDF
In 2017, RESEP’s Chris van Wyk was commissioned by UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS), as the lead consultant to develop training materials and methodological tools to be used for capacity building activities.
June 25, 2018 PDF
Gustafsson, M. and Taylor, S., 2018. Treating Schools to a New Administration: Evidence of the Impact of Better Practices in the System-Level Administration of Schools. Journal of African Economies, 27(5), pp.515-537.
May 7, 2018 PDF
Spaull, N. (2017) Who makes it into PISA? Understanding the impact of sample eligibility using Turkey as a case study (PISA 2003- PISA 2012). OECD Education Working Papers, No. 154, OECD Publishing, Paris. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1787/41d175fc-en
March 13, 2018 PDF
Investigating the Comprehension Iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early grade reading in agglutinating African languages
RESEP Working Paper Series No.WP01/2018RESEP Working Paper Series No.WP01/2018 Publication date: February 2018 Abstract: The importance of learning to read in mother-tongue is widely acknowledged in the linguistics literature yet…
February 22, 2018 PDF
Leading for literacy: A review of the research
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No.WP03/2018Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No.WP03/2018 Publication date: December 2018 Abstract: A significant body of literature converges on the notion that school leadership and management practices…
February 7, 2018 PDF
Recent research looking at “higher education access and outcomes for the 2008 national matric cohort”, by Hendrik van Broekhuizen, Servaas van der Berg and Heleen Hofmeyr of Stellenbosch University are colouring the debate around student fees in South Africa with in-depth analysis that are attracting welcome interest.
November 6, 2017 PDF
A review of the research literature on teaching and learning in the foundation phase in South Africa
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP05.2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP05.2016 Abstract: This document reports the findings of a review of research on teaching and learning at the Foundation Phase…
October 18, 2017 PDF
An Analysis of the Grade 3 Department of Basic Education workbooks as curriculum tools
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP06.2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP06.2016 Abstract: Since 2011 the Department of Basic Education (DBE), has provided all Grade 1 to 6 learners in public…
October 18, 2017 PDF
Language and Grade 4 reading literacy achievement in prePIRLS 2011
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP07.2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP07.2016 Abstract: The aim of this paper is to illustrate South African Grade 4 learner reading literacy achievement by utilising…
October 18, 2017 PDF
Governance in the Poorer Public Schools in South Africa from the Perspective of the Parent Governor
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP08.2016Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP08.2016 Abstract: Elected parent governors constitute the majority on the school governing bodies in South Africa’s public schools, yet their…
October 18, 2017 PDF
Earnings functions, labour market discrimination and quality of education in South Africa
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP02/2002Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP02/2002 Abstract: Education is a key determinant of earnings, as several South African studies have confirmed. Years of schooling completed,…
October 17, 2017 PDF
