The Learning for Living Project 2000-2004: A book-based approach to the learning of language in South African primary schools

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dc.contributor.authorSchollar, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-12T09:10:15Z
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dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2016-05-12T09:09:10Z
dc.description.abstractThe Learning for Living Project was implemented over five years in 957 primary schools in all nine provinces of South Africa. The intervention embodied a bookbased approach to the learning of English as a second language and was based upon a modified book flood model utilizing the supply of materials supported by in-service training as well as extensive classroom monitoring. A total of 13 164 teachers were supplied with a total of 4 002 103 individual books of different types – a mean of 304 per teacher. In addition, each teacher received a mean of 9.6 INSET courses and 6.9 monitoring visits. The project cost R153 million for a total of 875 000 learners yielding a per capita cost of R175 per learner over the whole five year project, including project staff salaries and administration. The project was externally evaluated through the use of a quasi experimental design that longitudinally tracked true cohorts of randomly selected learners in project and control groups drawn from a sample of 90 schools. The resulting data has a precision of just over 1% at a confidence level of 95% - mean scores of the project and control groups were virtually equivalent at baseline (-0.5% difference in relation to the project mean). All of the components of the sample measured significant impacts in the project group over the controls in literacy – Cohort One +6.9%, Cohort Two +3.4%, Grade Five +7.6% and Grade Seven +7.7%. There is a 100% certainty that these impacts were achieved as a result of the book- based approach to the learning of English as a second language applied by the Learning for Living Project. That similar impacts in mathematics were not obtained suggests that poor inputs and outcomes in mathematics exist independently of the language in which it is learned.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSchollar, E. (2008). <i>The Learning for Living Project 2000-2004: A book-based approach to the learning of language in South African primary schools</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19632en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSchollar, Eric <i>The Learning for Living Project 2000-2004: A book-based approach to the learning of language in South African primary schools.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19632en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSchollar, E. (2008). The Learning for Living Project, 2000-2004: A Book-based Approach to the Learning of Language in South African Primary Schools. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Working Paper AU - Schollar, Eric AB - The Learning for Living Project was implemented over five years in 957 primary schools in all nine provinces of South Africa. The intervention embodied a bookbased approach to the learning of English as a second language and was based upon a modified book flood model utilizing the supply of materials supported by in-service training as well as extensive classroom monitoring. A total of 13 164 teachers were supplied with a total of 4 002 103 individual books of different types – a mean of 304 per teacher. In addition, each teacher received a mean of 9.6 INSET courses and 6.9 monitoring visits. The project cost R153 million for a total of 875 000 learners yielding a per capita cost of R175 per learner over the whole five year project, including project staff salaries and administration. The project was externally evaluated through the use of a quasi experimental design that longitudinally tracked true cohorts of randomly selected learners in project and control groups drawn from a sample of 90 schools. The resulting data has a precision of just over 1% at a confidence level of 95% - mean scores of the project and control groups were virtually equivalent at baseline (-0.5% difference in relation to the project mean). All of the components of the sample measured significant impacts in the project group over the controls in literacy – Cohort One +6.9%, Cohort Two +3.4%, Grade Five +7.6% and Grade Seven +7.7%. There is a 100% certainty that these impacts were achieved as a result of the book- based approach to the learning of English as a second language applied by the Learning for Living Project. That similar impacts in mathematics were not obtained suggests that poor inputs and outcomes in mathematics exist independently of the language in which it is learned. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Centre for Social Science Research LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - The Learning for Living Project 2000-2004: A book-based approach to the learning of language in South African primary schools TI - The Learning for Living Project 2000-2004: A book-based approach to the learning of language in South African primary schools UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19632 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSchollar E. The Learning for Living Project 2000-2004: A book-based approach to the learning of language in South African primary schools. 2008 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19632en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentCentre for Social Science Research(CSSR)en_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
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dc.sourceCentre for Social Science Research
dc.source.urihttp://www.cssr.uct.ac.za/
dc.subject.otherLearning
dc.subject.otherLanguage
dc.subject.otherprimary schools
dc.subject.otherSouth Africa
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