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Sapire, Ingrid; Sorto, M. Alejandra – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
This study focuses on quantifying the quality of mathematics teaching in 183 randomly selected sixth grade classrooms: 100 from the North West province of South Africa and 83 from South East Botswana. The teaching quality is measured by coding videotaped lessons for three different components: mathematical proficiency, level of cognitive demand,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction
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Fleisch, Brahm; Taylor, Nick; Herholdt, Roelien; Sapire, Ingrid – South African Journal of Education, 2011
Can providing learner support materials, particularly custom-designed workbooks, improve primary mathematics achievement more cost effectively than providing conventional textbooks? To contribute to this debate, this paper reports on the findings of a study conducted in 2010 by a consortium of educational researchers at JET Education Services and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Randomized Controlled Trials