How Do we Know What to do? The Importance of Experimentation in Designing Programmes and Policies to Improve South African Schooling
| dc.contributor.author | Seekings, Jeremy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-20T13:17:15Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-20T13:17:15Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-05-20T13:13:43Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The quality of schooling in South Africa is a continuing cause for concern. There is broad consensus around the goals of reform, but not about how these goals might or should be achieved. This is because there is little evidence on the effects of alternative reforms allowing assessment of their efficacy and utility. This paper argues for much more experimentation in educational reform, i.e. running experimental reforms and monitoring closely their effects. Some evidence is available from projects and programmes funded by foreign donors, business donors or occasionally provincial education departments. This paper examines some of these, focusing especially on the design and evaluation methodology of the Imbewu programme run in the Eastern Cape funded through British aid. Unfortunately, little attempt has been made to standardize or collate research on the effects of these initiatives. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Seekings, J. (2003). <i>How Do we Know What to do? The Importance of Experimentation in Designing Programmes and Policies to Improve South African Schooling</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19749 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Seekings, Jeremy <i>How Do we Know What to do? The Importance of Experimentation in Designing Programmes and Policies to Improve South African Schooling.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR), 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19749 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Seekings, J. (2003). How Do We Know what to Do?: The Importance of Experimentation in Designing Programmes and Policies to Improve South African Schooling. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Seekings, Jeremy AB - The quality of schooling in South Africa is a continuing cause for concern. There is broad consensus around the goals of reform, but not about how these goals might or should be achieved. This is because there is little evidence on the effects of alternative reforms allowing assessment of their efficacy and utility. This paper argues for much more experimentation in educational reform, i.e. running experimental reforms and monitoring closely their effects. Some evidence is available from projects and programmes funded by foreign donors, business donors or occasionally provincial education departments. This paper examines some of these, focusing especially on the design and evaluation methodology of the Imbewu programme run in the Eastern Cape funded through British aid. Unfortunately, little attempt has been made to standardize or collate research on the effects of these initiatives. DA - 2003 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 - 2003 T1 - How Do we Know What to do? The Importance of Experimentation in Designing Programmes and Policies to Improve South African Schooling TI - How Do we Know What to do? The Importance of Experimentation in Designing Programmes and Policies to Improve South African Schooling UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19749 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19749 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Seekings J. How Do we Know What to do? The Importance of Experimentation in Designing Programmes and Policies to Improve South African Schooling. 2003 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19749 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Social Science Research(CSSR) | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
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| dc.source | Centre for Social Science Research | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.cssr.uct.ac.za | |
| dc.title | How Do we Know What to do? The Importance of Experimentation in Designing Programmes and Policies to Improve South African Schooling | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Research paper | en_ZA |