2 research outputs found
Maths4Stats: Opleiding vir onderwysers
Maths4Stats: Educating teachers. The inadequate nature of the education infrastructure
in South Africa has led to poor academic performance at public schools. Problems within
schools such as under-qualified teachers and poor teacher performance arise due to the poorly
constructed education system in our country. The implementation in 2012 of the Curriculum
and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) at public schools in South Africa saw the further
crippling of some teachers, as they were unfamiliar with parts of the CAPS subject content. The
Statistics and Population Studies department at the University of the Western Cape was asked
to join the Maths4Stats project in 2012. This project was launched by Statistics South Africa in
an effort to assist in training the teachers in statistical content within the CAPS Mathematics
curricula. The University of the Western Cape's team would like to share their experience of
being part of the Maths4Stats training in the Western Cape. This article focuses on how the
training sessions were planned and what the outcomes were. With the knowledge gained from
our first Maths4Stats experience, it is recommended that future interventions are still needed
to ensure that mathematics teachers become well-informed and confident to teach topics such
as data handling, probability and regression analysis
Quantified assessment to enhance student learning in the sciences at UWC
Magister Scientiae - MScThis project discusses whether the British prototype questionnaire called the Assessment Experience Questionnaire (AEQ) could be standardized as a quantifier of assessment and be used at a multicultural institute such as the University of the Western Cape (UWC). This questionnaire was created in the United Kingdom to assist lecturers in evaluating and developing their assessment systems.South Afric