tailieunhanh - Improving Learning in South African Schools

This report marks the end of a unique, long-term and extensive teaching and learning intervention programme, the Quality Learning Project (QLP). In concluding the evaluation activities of the QLP, a reflection on the evaluation processes and findings is desirable. For this reason, some of the most important functions and roles of the QLP and its evaluation are placed in perspective. In doing so, the report emphasises the crucial nature and function of evaluation for teaching and learning, more so in view of the transformation context of the South African education system | Improving Learning in South African Schools The Quality Learning Project QLP Summative Evaluation 2000 to 2004 Free download from HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL A Kanjee CH Prinsloo August 2005 Compiled by the Assessment Technology and Education Evaluation Research Programme Human Sciences Research Council Free download from Funded by the Business Trust Intervention Programme Managed by JET Education Services Evaluation by the Human Sciences Research Council Published by HSRC Press Private Bag X9182 Cape Town 8000 South Africa 2005 Human Sciences Research Council First published 2005 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic mechanical or other means including photocopying and recording or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers. ISBN 0-7969-2145-8 Cover Design and Layout Vinesh Naidoo Production Shereno Printers Distributed in Africa by Blue Weaver PO Box 30370 Tokai Cape Town 7966 South Africa Tel 27 0 21 701 4477 Fax 27 0 21 701 7302 email orders@ Distributed in Europe and the United Kingdom by Eurospan Distribution Services EDS 3 Henrietta Street Covent Garden London WC2E 8LU United Kingdom Tel 44 0 20 7240 0856 Fax 44 0 20 7379 0609 email orders@ Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group IPG Order Department 814 North Franklin Street Chicago IL 60610 USA Call toll-free 800 888 4741 All other enquiries 1 312 337 0747 Fax 1 312 337 5985 email frontdesk@ Contents Free download from CONTENTS list of figures and tables vi list of annexures vii acknowledgements viii preface x abbreviations used for the qlp districts xi Map showing location of Quality Learning Project QLP districts xi executive summary xii Background 1 Framework for the .