Heleen Hofmeyr
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Heleen is a postdoctoral research fellow at RESEP. Her research is aimed at understanding the role of socio-emotional skills in education, particularly in low-and middle-income countries.
Educational issues and the impact of COVID-19: what education data reveal
COVID-19 caused disruptions to schooling on an unprecedented scale. Emerging evidence indicate sthat these disruptions impacted schooling in South Africa in many ways, from shortened…
February 2, 2023 PDF
Learner flows through schools: Using high quality administrative data to understand education system performance
The report analyses school flows, repetition, and dropout using a novel analysis of school-based assessments, and how well these predict future performance and learner flows.…
September 17, 2021 PDF
Perseverance, passion and poverty: Examining the association between grit and reading achievement in high-poverty schools in South Africa
This paper examines whether school characteristics moderate the association between grit and reading achievement in a sample of Grade 6 learners in high-poverty contexts. The…
May 18, 2021 PDF
Perseverance, Passion, and Poverty: Examining the association between grit and reading achievement in high-poverty schools
This paper examines whether school characteristics moderate the association between grit and reading achievement in a sample of Grade 6 learners in high-poverty contexts.
April 20, 2020 PDF
Revised results confirm large improvements in South Africa’s reading outcomes, albeit from a low base
A recent paper by Martin Gustafsson shows that there have been significant improvements in reading in South Africa in recent years.
March 4, 2020 PDF
Performance Beyond Expectations: Academic Resilience in South Africa
Socio-economic status and educational outcomes are strongly linked across countries and education systems. However, a growing body of research documents the existence of students from…
December 20, 2019 PDF
Academic resilience in challenging contexts: Evidence from township and rural primary schools in South Africa
Wills, G. and Hofmeyr, H., 2019. Academic resilience in challenging contexts: Evidence from township and rural primary schools in South Africa. International Journal of Educational Research, 98,…
October 9, 2019 PDF
Academic Resilience in Challenging Contexts: Evidence From Township and Rural Primary Schools in South Africa
Poverty is considered a risk factor that jeopardizes children’s academic performance. However, even in high-poverty contexts there are students who manage to achieve consistently good…
November 23, 2018 PDF
Academic resilience in challenging school contexts in South Africa
Poverty is considered a risk factor that jeopardizes children’s academic performance. Yet even in high poverty contexts there are students who manage to achieve consistently…
September 4, 2018 PDF
Home background and schooling outcomes in South Africa: Insights from the National Income Dynamics Study
Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP01/2018 Publication date: January 2018 Abstract: Patterns of poverty and inequality in South Africa are largely sustained by differential educational…
July 19, 2018 PDF
Higher Education Access and Outcomes for the 2008 National Matric Cohort
This study uses a unique dataset to investigate university access, throughput, and dropout for the 2008 national matric cohort. The findings show that university access…
July 4, 2018 PDF
