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Sapire, Ingrid; Sorto, M. Alejandra – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
This study focuses on quantifying the quality of mathematics teaching in 183 randomly selected sixth grade classrooms: 100 from the North West province of South Africa and 83 from South East Botswana. The teaching quality is measured by coding videotaped lessons for three different components: mathematical proficiency, level of cognitive demand,…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction
Addy, Nii Antiaye – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the academic aims of curriculum reforms and the teaching roles related to them are similar, but non-teaching roles are likely to vary across countries. Taking an organization studies perspective, this article compares teachers' roles in reform along the Botswana-South Africa border. Though these teachers share language and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Preservice Teacher Education, Racial Segregation, Curriculum Development
Chisholm, Linda; Chilisa, Bagele – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
This article examines how different histories and contexts of political and educational change in Botswana and South Africa have shaped the more regular classroom practice observed in Botswana. It does this through an interpretive synthesis and comparison of four key moments of educational change in Botswana and South Africa during the twentieth…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Comparative Analysis
Carnoy, Martin; Arends, Fabian – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
The purpose of this study is to test empirically whether and how classroom and school factors contribute to student mathematics learning gains in the border region of North West province, South Africa and Southeastern Botswana. Our results suggest that in both regions, improving teaching quality has an important impact on how much mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness, Achievement Gains
Reeves, Cheryl; Major, Thenjiwe – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
This article describes how a detailed notebook analysis was used to assess and compare the opportunity to learn of a sample of grade 6 students from 126 classes in South East Botswana and North West Province, South Africa. Students' mathematics notebooks provided the main data source for estimating how much time is spent on the subject during the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Test Items, Foreign Countries, Grade 6
Irving, Margaret – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2012
This article compares key features of the labour markets for teachers across Botswana and South Africa in order to seek possible explanations for the apparently larger teacher shortages in South Africa. It is argued that South African teachers earn relatively lower wages when compared to professionals with comparable qualifications; they have also…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Qualifications, Unions, Comparative Analysis