Learner Performance in South Africa

South Africa has done well to expand its educational system systematically and to lengthen the schooling experience of successive learner cohorts. However, the quality of the output from the school system has been questioned. In seeking to identify the reasons for this, it is important to relate educational outputs (competencies, as measured, for instance, by examinations or standardised tests) to inputs. Determining the relative contributions of the inputs – of the school, the household and the individual learner – to educational outputs is not straightforward, particularly since very little educational production function analysis has been undertaken in South Africa.

HSRC Press

Product Information

Format:

210mm x 280mm

Pages:

ISBN-13:

978-07969-2041-6

Publish Year:

2005

Rights:

World Rights

List of figures and tables
Executive Summary
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Features of the Quality Learning Project

3. Data preparation, statistical procedures and methodology

4. Commentary on the findings

Appendices

References

Charles Simkins is the Helen Suzman Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a member of the South African Statistics Council, and a member of the Council of the South African Institute of Race Relations. He has written numerous books and articles.

Andrew Paterson is Chief Research Specialist in the Research Programme on Human Resources Development in the HSRC. Prior to joining the HSRC, he held posts as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the Universities of the North West and Western Cape.