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 ...

Having led South Africa’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) for 20 years, Reddy was well aware of the significant challenges that had to be overcome to make small but steady performance improvements in these subjects. The TIMSS team must have pondered this while analysing the TIMSS 2019 results during the heig ...