Karen Roux obtained her PhD in Assessment and Quality Assurance in 2021. She was awarded the IEA Bruce H. Choppin Memorial Award in 2021 for her outstanding PhD thesis which focused on the equivalence of PIRLS passages across three languages in South Africa.
South Africa's 10 year-olds are struggling to read -- it can be fixed
May 23, 2023 15:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views
More than 80% of South Africas grade 4 pupils who are on average nine or 10 years old cannot read for meaning. That means they cant answer basic questions about or draw inferences from a text theyre reading. This...
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