The Centre for Social Sciences Research (CSSR) and the  Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa  (IDCPPA) at the University of Cape Town invite you to join us for a lunchtime seminar on 5 November 2024 at 12:45pm. The seminar will be presented by Eric Schollar.

About the Seminar:

The outcomes of mathematical education between 2000 and 2022 along with evidence for an alternative model of change

The seminar is based around the first large scale post-covid study of mathematical performance by the NECT in 2022. Those findings are compared with national data from 2000 onwards. These data suggest that outcomes have not improved over the last two decades.

The seminar will include consideration of the causes of this situation. It will conclude with some evidence for an alternative model of change, based on small-scale evaluation studies up to 2024.

Speakers

Eric Schollar has spent the last 46 years as an educationalist - as a teacher, practitioner, or researcher.

Along with 8 years teaching in Australia, he spent another 8 years in South Africa working in educational NGOs (SACHED Trust and PROTEC) before establishing an independent research and evaluation agency (ESA) in 1994.

Since then ESA has participated in the evaluations of some of the largest intervention programmes at national and provincial levels as well as multiple small-scale studies.

 5 November 2024
 12:45 - 14:00 SAST
  CSSR Seminar Room, 4.29 Robert Leslie Social Science Building, UCT

Hosted by the Centre for Social Science Research and the Institute for Democracy, Citizenship and Public Policy in Africa