Resources
Focus on Improving Schooling
Paper presented to the 4th Sub-regional Conference on Assessment in Eduction, 26-30 June 2006 Taylor N. (2006). Hosted by UMALUSI.
Focus on Challenges Across the Education Spectrum
An update on lead projects
Taylor N. (2007). Also published as Chapter 29 IN: International Handbook of School Effectiveness and Improvement . Springer International Handbooks of Education , Vol. 17. Townsend, Tony (Ed.). Dordrecht: Springer.
Focus on Quality education for all
Taylor N, Fleisch B, Shindler J. (2007).
Taylor N. (2007). Presentation to the Imbewu Programme Review Conference, Port Elizabeth, 25-28 June 2007
Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE). and JET Education Services. (2007).
Focus on Improving Schooling
Taylor N. (2008). Boksburg, February 2008. Presentation to the JET conference What works in school development?
Taylor N, Fleisch B, Shindler J. (2008). Background paper for the Fifteen Year Review of government business, commissioned by the Policy Unit, Office of the Presidency
Roelien Herholdt
Roelien du Toit and Carla Pereira
Focus on Whole school development and report on the Conference, “What works in School Development?”
Celebrating fifteen years
Project overviews and common task assessments
Presentation to the CSR in Education Conference, TSiBA Education, Cape Town, 21 November 2008
Taylor N. (2009). Presentation to Governing Body Foundation, May 2009.
Commisioned by JET Education Services. Johannesburg: JET
Nick Taylor writes: Obsession with pass rates a national folly
Paper Presented at the Wits School of Education Research Seminar, Staff Lounge
December 2010
Report by Nick Taylor, Thabo Mabogoane and Binaben Akoobhai on a research study commissioned by the Office of the Presidency and funded by GTZ. The purpose of the research was to investigate the link between school level learning and institutional practice. The study focused on school level practices in high schools, and measured learning outcomes by school mean performance on the annual national Senior Certificate examinations.
A Review commissioned by the National Planning Commission. Johannesburg: JET Education Services.
Nick Taylor (August 2011)
A report commissioned by the National Planning Commission
Fleisch B, Shindler J, Perry H. (2012). Who is out of school? Evidence from the Statistics South Africa Community Survey. International Journal of Educational Development 32 (2012) 529–536. (An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 10th UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development, 15–17 September 2009, New College, Oxford. Funding for the research project was provided by the National Research Foundation and CREATE, University of Sussex. The authors are exclusively responsible for the research presented in this paper).