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Instructional Leadership Sensemaking for Science and Maths in South African Multi-Deprived Middle Schools
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Tsakeni, Maria; Munje, Paul N.; Jita, Loyiso C. – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
Sensemaking is pivotal in shaping organisational activities, such as instructional leadership actions in schools. This study used sensemaking to explore the outcome when two middle schools with similar multi-deprivation settings followed different instructional leadership enactment trajectories for science and mathematics. Two schools with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Instructional Leadership, Science Instruction
Reading Ability of in-Service Science Educators: A Preliminary Study
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Kibirige, I. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
Reading ability is fundamental to teaching and learning (AFT 2004). This study assessed the reading ability of 25 in-service science educators at the University of Limpopo for three science texts: Grades 7, 8 and 9, using a cloze test and exploring materials that educators read. The scores were categorised as being independent, instructional and…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Middle Schools, Reading Improvement, Interviews
Towards an Integrated Learning Strategies Approach to Promoting Scientific Literacy in the South African Context
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Webb, Paul – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
The focus of this paper is on selected recent South African research studies that have explored efforts to promote the discussion, writing, and arguing aspects of scientific literacy in primary and middle schools, particularly amongst second-language learners. These studies reveal improvements in the participants' abilities to both use the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Discussion, Writing Strategies, Learning Strategies
Education and New Developments 2017
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
Mathematics and Science Performance in the Middle School Years in South Africa: A Summary Report on the Performance of South African Students in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
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Howie, Sarah – 1997
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the largest and most ambitious international study of mathematics and science achievement ever undertaken, with more than 500,000 school students in 45 countries being tested in mathematics and science at five different school year levels. South Africa is the first country in Africa…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Mathematics and Science Performance in the Middle School Years in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. The Performance of Students in the Western Cape Province in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
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Howie, Sarah, Ed. – 1997
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the largest and most ambitious international study of mathematics and science achievement ever undertaken with more than 500,000 students in 41 countries being tested in mathematics and science at three different year levels. South Africa is the first country in Africa to have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Mathematics and Science Performance in the Middle School Years in the Free State Province of South Africa. The Performance of Students in the Free State Province in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
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Howie, Sarah, Ed. – 1997
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the largest and most ambitious international study of mathematics and science achievement ever undertaken with more than 500,000 students in 41 countries being tested in mathematics and science at three different year levels. South Africa is the first country in Africa to have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Mathematics and Science Performance in the Middle School Years in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The Performance of Students in the Northern Cape Province in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
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Howie, Sarah, Ed. – 1997
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the largest and most ambitious international study of mathematics and science achievement ever undertaken with more than 500,000 students in 41 countries being tested in mathematics and science at three different year levels. South Africa is the first country in Africa to have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Mathematics and Science Performance in the Middle School Years in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. The Performance of Students in the Mpumalanga Province in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
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Howie, Sarah, Ed. – 1997
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the largest and most ambitious international study of mathematics and science achievement ever undertaken with more than 500,000 students in 41 countries being tested in mathematics and science at three different year levels. South Africa is the first country in Africa to have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Mathematics and Science Performance in the Middle School Years in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The Performance of Students in the Eastern Cape Province in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
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Howie, Sarah, Ed. – 1997
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is the largest and most ambitious international study of mathematics and science achievement ever undertaken with more than 500,000 students in 41 countries being tested in mathematics and science at three different year levels. South Africa is the first country in Africa to have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools