Authors: Ingrid Sapire, Roelien Herholdt
Published: 2023
Presented at the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Washington on February 21, 2023. The Marko-D test is based on an empirically validated model of children’s progressive understanding of numerical concepts. The model was developed in Germany, based on theoretical suppositions and empirical data (Fritz, Ehlert & Leutner, 2018).In the model, the number concept is viewed as a requirement for the construction of arithmetical skills. These concepts gradually build upon each other, creating a continuum (or a pathway of learning progression) of increasing complexity (Henning, Ehlert, Balzer, Ragpot, Herholdt, & Fritz, 2019). This is in line with the South African school curriculum for the foundation phase (elementary school) which requires the development of basic number concepts. The Marko-D is a story-based, individually administered oral test, which provides diagnostic information regarding the child's number concept development (Herholdt, 2017), which in turn can be used to inform re-teaching, interventions and remediation. In 2022 JET, in collaboration with Bala Wande set out to expand the existing South African version of the Marko-D from the four language versions (English, Afrikaans, isiZulu and Sesotho) validated by the University of Johannesburg and published in 2019 (Henning, Ehlert, Balzer, Ragpot, Herholdt, & Fritz, 2019) include a Sepedi version. A second round of piloting was completed in the third term of 2022 in a sample of in excess of 1800 grade 1 learners. A Rasch analysis was carried out and the results were reported at the CIES conference in Washington DC on 21 February 2023 by Dr Ingrid Sapire who is the Head of Maths at Funda Wande, based at WITS University. A final pilot of the Sepedi version is planned for 2023 as well as expanding the validation process to include concurrent validation with the Hybrid EGMA used in the Bala Wande initiative.
Author: ACQF
Published: 2022
This M&E Guideline is fundamental for development, implementation and review of NQFs and RQFs including the ACQF. The M&E Guideline is intended as a pragmatic conceptual reference and methodological guidance for NQF and Regional Qualifications Frameworks (RQF) implementers helping them develop and establish functional M&E systems.
Keywords: ACQF
Author: ACQF
Published: 2022
Mapping curriculum frameworks and practices in Africa: creating baseline evidence (2022)
Keywords: Curriculum Development, Parental Involvement, ACQF
Author: ACQF
Published: 2022
The key message of this document is that innovations and technology have a range of applications related to national and regional qualifications frameworks, credentials, and the recognition of learning, which can be leveraged to enhance government service delivery to constituents.
Keywords: ICT in Education, ACQF
Author: Jane Hofmeyr and Zaahedah Vally
Published: 2022
This report on the professionalisation of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) lecturers is the result of research undertaken by JET Education Services (JET) in 2021 and 2022 as part of a five-year TVET programme. In 2019, JET was appointed as part of a consortium of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) involved in the five-year TVET programme commissioned by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) and the National Skills Fund (NSF).
Author: RESEP
Published: 2022
How many teachers will retire by 2030?
Keywords: Dialogue, Teacher demographics
Authors: Martin Gustafsson and Nick Taylor
Published: 2022
Political economy and ideology are important determinants of educational development. The authors examine this in the South African context, using an approach which is in part dialogical, while paying special attention to the acquisition of foundational skills in the early grades. South Africa’s apartheid legacy, and the predominance of the upper secondary school-leaving certificate, shaped the policy discourse in ways that often marginalised the question of foundational skills.
Author: Cheryl Carolus
Published: 2022
JET ANNUAL MEETING AND 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION: 30 years behind us and looking towards the future