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Improving School Performance: Strategies and Solutions

Explore the key factors impacting school performance, such as curriculum coverage, teacher knowledge, time management, and institutional culture. Learn how different schools can enhance learning outcomes through targeted interventions.

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Improving School Performance: Strategies and Solutions

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  1. How can school performance be improved?

  2. Relationship between learning outcomes and enrollment Crouch and Vinjevold, 2006

  3. Access to secondary education: secondary gross enrollment ratios, Crouch & Vinjevold, 2006

  4. What good schools do REGULATORY FUNCTION: • Orderly environment • Intellectual activity valued • Sense of responsibility INSTRUCTIONAL FUNCTION: • Proficiency in LOI • Reading & writing • Proficiency in specific discipline: Maths, History, Literature

  5. SA High Schools

  6. SACMEQ mean maths score by quintile vd Berg & Louw, 2006

  7. Top Performing Schools • What do they need? • Where African numbers are small: • Incentives to increase African roll • Where African numbers are large: • Subsidies for poor children • All: • Increase level of cognitive demand of curriculum

  8. Moderately Performing Schools: What makes the Difference?

  9. Key lever 1: Time on Task • Chisholm et al, 2005 • Teachers work an average 41 hours (out of 43)/week • 41% of this on teaching: 3.4h/day • 14% devoted to planning and preparation, • 14% on assessment, evaluation, reports and record-keeping

  10. Key lever 2: Curriculum Coverage 3: ¾ or more ASs completed during year 2: Between ½ and ¾ of ASs completed 1: Between ¼ and ½ 0: Less than ¼ covered

  11. Key lever 3: Teacher Knowledge Grade 3 teachers wrote parts of the Grade 6 learner test: • Literacy: 55% • Numeracy: 65%

  12. SA High Schools

  13. 524 QLP schools > Control

  14. Poorly performing schoolsStart with Time Management • Part of institutional culture • Leadership • Organisational development ≠ training • BUT provinces & districts too weak

  15. Differentiated approach Raise level of cognitive demand Top performing schools Schools with Threshold Capacity • Eg Dinaledi II • Training • Resources • Incentives Dysfunctional Schools Organisational development State authority But weak state

  16. Why is our civil service so inefficient? • They went to poorly performing schools • Structural instability • Ideology: threw out authority with authoritarianism • Unions better organised • Lack of focus, eg matric exams

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