Uprooting bad mathematical performance: pilot study into roots of problems
SOURCE: HSRC Review
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2008
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Carnoy, L.Chisholm, H.Baloyi
KEYWORDS: ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATIONAL REFORM, EVALUATION, LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES ABILITY TESTING, MATHEMATICS TEACHING, POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, SCHOOLS
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/june-2008/bad-math-peformance
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 5395
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/5291
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/5291
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2008
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Carnoy, L.Chisholm, H.Baloyi
KEYWORDS: ACHIEVEMENT, EDUCATIONAL REFORM, EVALUATION, LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES ABILITY TESTING, MATHEMATICS TEACHING, POST APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, SCHOOLS
DEPARTMENT: Equitable Education and Economies (IED)
Web link: http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/june-2008/bad-math-peformance
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 5395
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/5291
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/5291
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Abstract
South African students score poorly in mathematics and language tests when compared with students from other African countries and when compared with what should be expected 14 years after the achievement of democracy. But Martin Carnoy, Linda Chisholm and Hlengani Baloyi believe it is critically important to go beyond simply measuring low achievement and to find ways of diagnosing learning problems with a view to enabling correction and remediation.-
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