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RESEP has released 3 new policy briefs: (1) “Rethinking pre-grade R” (2) “Is school based assessment in matric achieving its potential?” (3) “Improving the calibre of school leadership in South Africa“
- The IEA is developing a new tool, the Literacy and Numeracy Assessment (LaNA) to measure primary school literacy and numeracy and linking items to TIMSS and PIRLS (it’s about time!)
- For those Matrics of 2015 who didn’t qualify to go to university, here’s a list of places in SA that offer free coding courses.
- The impact evaluation outfit 3iE have created this 937-page document: Interventions for improving learning outcomes and access to education in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
- SA Provincial budgets & expenditure review: 2010/11 – 2016/17 (Education) – from our efficient friends at SA Treasury.
- Deidre McKloskey – the doyen of everything – gave the Denison commencement address in 2015, titled So What? – everything she writes is worth reading, this especially so. To the extent that we can answer these transcendental questions about our own lives will be the extent to which we live a life we consider meaningful.
- I’ve been looking for a lovely autobiography for some time and it seems I’ve found one – Oliver Sacks “On the Move“
- “Students, Computers and Learning: Making the connection” – new book (Sept 2015) by OECD – pair it with this excellent book review by Audrey Watters of Morozov’s book “To Save Everything, Click Here” (it’s overly skeptical in my view but still very much worth reading).
- “How to get published in an academic journal: top tips from editors” – Guardian article (via Sarah Gravett)
- You MUST watch “Suffragette” – moving, important, timely. So many parallels with movements like BlackLivesMatter and the push for the legalisation of gay marriage.
- (Tomorrow, 25 Jan 2016, at 10am the CEO of Umalusi and I will be discussing the matric standardisation process of 2015 on the Redi Hlabi Show)
Nic Spaull 