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Reports of the National Education Evaluation and Development Unit

All you need to know about ADHD

Attention-deficit hyperactive disorder (ADHD) is a pattern of behaviour in which a child shows levels of inattention, impulsivity or hyperactivity that are higher than in other children of the same age, setting and culture.

Amanuel Garza

Artificial Intelligence and Inclusion: Compendium of Promising Initiatives - prepared for Mobile Learning Week 2020 #MLW2020

"Kelly Shiohira, Gill Scott, James Keevy, Tadiwanashe Murahwi, with support from Tolika Sibiya and Teboho Makhoabenyane, from JET Education Services, a UNEVOC Centre based in South Africa, prepared the compendium of initiatives based on a selection of initiatives received as applicants to Mobile Learning Week (MLW) 2020".

In order to establish whether the integration of technology and the resulting "blended learning" approach is, in fact, resulting in instructional model change, the Clayton Christensen Institute undertook a survey study among a small sample of schools in Brazil, Malaysia and South Africa. The findings have been released in a report, “Blended beyond borders”.

Inequality remains pervasive in the South African education system. The COVID-19 pandemic has not only shown the fault lines, but is deepening them at an alarming rate, and in a manner that may take many more years to undo. In this contribution, based on findings fro our Researchers Bootcamp, we talk to the need to provide basic rights, as set out in the Freedom Charter, such as health, safety and nutrition, while we cast the net wider to consider aspects of data privacy, online learning and governance.

JET Bulletin May 2018: Standardised learner assessments in ‘affordable’ independent schools – perspectives from research and practice

JET Education Services (JET), in collaboration with four school operators and Old Mutual Alternative Investments’ Schools Fund, has been involved in the assessment of educational quality in affordable independent schools using standardised assessments. This work has led to a more developmental use of assessment, with some school operators using detailed analysis of the assessment data to inform their teaching practices.