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Learner Performance in South Africa: Social and Economic Determinants of Success in Language and Mathematics
Andrew Paterson
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Description for Learner Performance in South Africa: Social and Economic Determinants of Success in Language and Mathematics
Paperback. This study contains crucial information for educational sociologists and economists as well as for policy makers and education managers both in South Africa an in other developing countries. Num Pages: 76 pages, figures, tables, map. BIC Classification: 1HFM; JNK; JNZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 210. Weight in Grams: 245.
South Africa has systematically expanded its education system and more learners are reaching higher grades, yet the issue of quality has been difficult to address. One of the reasons for this is that, until recently, the information required to analyse learner competencies in relation to the inputs they receive from their school and home environments did not exist. The results of the recent, large scale Quality learning project (QLP) survey have now made this data available for certain schools, and this monograph uses the QLP data to address the question of how socio-economic variables impact on educational ... Read more
South Africa has systematically expanded its education system and more learners are reaching higher grades, yet the issue of quality has been difficult to address. One of the reasons for this is that, until recently, the information required to analyse learner competencies in relation to the inputs they receive from their school and home environments did not exist. The results of the recent, large scale Quality learning project (QLP) survey have now made this data available for certain schools, and this monograph uses the QLP data to address the question of how socio-economic variables impact on educational ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
HSRC Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN
9780796920416
SKU
V9780796920416
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99-3
About Andrew Paterson
Andrew Paterson was a research director in the Education, Science and Skills Development research programme at the time when the research for this monograph took place. He is now a senior researcher at the Development Bank of Southern Africa. Fabian Arends is a research specialist in the Education, Science and Skills Development research programme at the HSRC.
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