Systematic Reviews of Research in Basic Education in South Africa

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• Publisher: Sun Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781991201157
• Edition: 0

Maringe ought to be commended for putting together an invaluable contribution to our understanding of research into a complex education system in South Africa. This volume provides a useful foundation to the current state of education quality in South Africa including the impact of interventions. It also brings to the fore challenges still facing education transformation. The evidence presented which, taken together, lays out a coherent view of how improvements could be made.Albert ChaneeHead of Planning, Gauteng Department of EducationFor too long the weight of educational scholarship produced in South Africa has been limited to that simple and standard form called the literature review. Now, for the first time, education researchers are provided with an African-based text on the concepts and methods of conducting systematic reviews. In this exceptional work of editorship, Felix Maringe brings together some of the leading researchers on South African education to model and demonstrate how to review a significant body of research on a chosen topic which is adjudicated strictly on the basis of the quality and efficacy of the evidence in hand. I have no doubt that this remarkable book will become a standard reference for educational researchers in and beyond the African continent. It will also lift the quality of educational inquiry by equipping a new generation of scholars with the capacity for doing evidence-based research that compels the attention of policymakers, planners and practitioners alike.Prof Jonathan JansenStellenbosch University

Table of contents

• Contributors
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Table 1.1 Comparing the racial bases of apartheid education in South Africa (own summary)
• Figure 2.1 Funnel plot SA education meta-analysis
• Figure 2.2 Graphical illustration of SA education Multi-Treatment Meta-analysis (MTMA)
• Figure 2.3 Regression of effect size on school grade
• Figure 2.4 Impact of interventions to improve language abilities
• Figure 2.5 Impact of interventions to improve mathematics abilities
• Figure 2.6 Impact of interventions to improve science and other FET subjects
• Figure 2.7 Impact of LTSM provision
• Figure 2.8 Impact of whole school development programmes
• Figure 2.9 Impact of government programmes versus academic experiments
• Figure 7.1 A summary of the literature search and selection procedure (Adapted from Van Lankveld, Schoonenboom & Volman et al., 2017; Bennett et al., 2005 & Bearman, 2012)
• Figure 8.1 Flow chart representing article selection [add in]
• Figure 9.2 Frequencies of segments of research on MKT (2010-2018)
• Figure 9.3 Number and proportion of articles relating to research on errors and misconceptions in two Southern African mathema ics education journals
• Figure 9.4 Number of articles on errors and misconceptions research in Pythagoras versus ARJMSTE
• Figure 9.5 Number of articles published and first author affiliation in the ARJMSTE journal