A person’s belief in their ability to succeed in a particular situation – their self-efficacy – has a strong impact on their behaviour. As a result, understanding self-efficacy is a key component when interpreting achievement results. In the pursuit of improving South African learners’ achievement in science, Sylvia Hannan and Andrea Juan e ...

This document, and its two companion reports (resource sets) for mathematics (at Grade 5 and 9 level), is ground-breaking with regard to utilizing in a truly diagnostic way for the first time the results from the data collected during the four-yearly TIMSS administration also in South Africa. On permission from the IEA to use and report on the limi ...

Central to the learner performance in assessments (both national and international) in mathematics is the ability to solve problems. The National Curriculum Statement Grades R-12 (DBE, 2011) specifies that it aims to produce learners that are able to identify and solve problems and make decisions using critical and creative thinking. The National C ...

This report serves as a diagnostic indication of South African learner performance in the TIMSS 2015 Grade 5 Numeracy assessment. Several patterns of weakness and suggested remedial actions were identified and it is hoped that this will be beneficial for all role-players and stakeholders in the South African education system. This includes curri ...

The Western Cape TIMSS 2019 school sample was selected from the 2018 Department of Basic Education (DBE) List of Schools that offered Grade 9 classes. Statistics Canada selected the South African sample and Western Cape provincial sample of 150 schools based on school type (public, independent) as explicit stratification variables and school povert ...

About TIMSS TIMSS is an assessment of the mathematics and science knowledge of fourth and eighth Grade learners around the world. A few countries, including South Africa, assess fifth and ninth Grade learners. The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (using IEA constructed scales designed for the group of inte ...

TIMSS Assessment framework The curriculum used by TIMSS is broadly defined as the major organising concept in considering how educational opportunities are provided to learners and the factors associated with how learners use these opportunities. The TIMSS Curriculum Model has three aspects: the intended curriculum, the implemented curriculum, ...

Statistics Canada selected the South African sample and Gauteng provincial sample of 150 schools from the 2018 Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) List of schools that offered Grade 9 classes (648 Public and 348 Independent schools). Public schools accommodate 88% of the province’s learners, and independent schools 12%. The sampling was based ...

Thirty-six countries participated in TIMSS 2015 at the Grade 8 level and three countries at the Grade 9 level (Norway, Botswana and South Africa). We will describe the achievement scores using three measures, namely (i) average mathematics and science scale scores in TIMSS 2015 for participating countries; (ii) change in mathematics and scien ...