An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme

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dc.contributor.advisorLouw-Potgieter, Johaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSchkolne, Deborah Staceyen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T11:51:03Z
dc.date.available2015-12-08T11:51:03Z
dc.date.issued2015en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation reports on an outcome evaluation of The Shine Centre's literacy intervention, Literacy Hour. The Shine Centre is a South African non-governmental organisation that offers literacy support to Grade 2 and 3 learners at risk of reading failure. The programme takes the form of one-to-one or one-to-two tutoring. The learners who are chosen to participate in the Literacy Hour programme are selected based on their results in Shine's diagnostic assessment completed at the end of Grade 1. The selected students work with trained volunteers twice a week for an hour at a time. Each hour of the Literacy Hour programme is divided into four 15-minute components, namely: (a) paired reading, (b) shared reading, (c) have-a-go writing, and (d) wordplay. The evaluation design was a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent group design. The assignment into the experimental/intervention group and the control group was done by means of a sharp regression-discontinuity cut-off. The sample included six Centres and two Chapters in the Western Cape with complete data for the 2011 to 2013 cohort. Learner results were monitored using various assessment tools at the end of Grade 1 and during Grades 2 and 3. The two Shine diagnostic assessments, D1 and D2, tested the learners' literacy skills against the level that they should have acquired by that point in their school career. Additionally, the reading level assessments were used to determine the learners' actual reading level/age.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSchkolne, D. S. (2015). <i>An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Institute for Monitoring and Evaluation. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15709en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSchkolne, Deborah Stacey. <i>"An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Institute for Monitoring and Evaluation, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15709en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSchkolne, D. 2015. An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Schkolne, Deborah Stacey AB - This dissertation reports on an outcome evaluation of The Shine Centre's literacy intervention, Literacy Hour. The Shine Centre is a South African non-governmental organisation that offers literacy support to Grade 2 and 3 learners at risk of reading failure. The programme takes the form of one-to-one or one-to-two tutoring. The learners who are chosen to participate in the Literacy Hour programme are selected based on their results in Shine's diagnostic assessment completed at the end of Grade 1. The selected students work with trained volunteers twice a week for an hour at a time. Each hour of the Literacy Hour programme is divided into four 15-minute components, namely: (a) paired reading, (b) shared reading, (c) have-a-go writing, and (d) wordplay. The evaluation design was a quasi-experimental, non-equivalent group design. The assignment into the experimental/intervention group and the control group was done by means of a sharp regression-discontinuity cut-off. The sample included six Centres and two Chapters in the Western Cape with complete data for the 2011 to 2013 cohort. Learner results were monitored using various assessment tools at the end of Grade 1 and during Grades 2 and 3. The two Shine diagnostic assessments, D1 and D2, tested the learners' literacy skills against the level that they should have acquired by that point in their school career. Additionally, the reading level assessments were used to determine the learners' actual reading level/age. DA - 2015 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme TI - An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15709 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/15709
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSchkolne DS. An outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programme. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Commerce ,Institute for Monitoring and Evaluation, 2015 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15709en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentInstitute for Monitoring and Evaluationen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherProgramme Evaluationen_ZA
dc.titleAn outcome evaluation of the Shine Centre's literacy hour programmeen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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