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Research data: TIMSS
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2015 Beyond benchmarks: what twenty years of TIMSS data tell us about South African education
South Africa has participated in a number of local and international educational achievement studies over the past 20 years. Their main pur...
2015 Understanding school effects in South Africa using multilevel analysis: findings from TIMSS 2011
Studies of school effect usually evolve around two major issues; understanding of the factors within schools that explain variation in stude...
Download this report2014 Attitudes to science: part of the puzzle to improve educational achievement?
This paper examines the relationship between attitudes to learning science and science achievement in South Africa. TIMSS 2011 science achie...