Dr Surette Van Staden

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Location
South Africa
University of Pretoria
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Departments

Education

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Research Profiles
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Focus Areas / Specialisation

    Educational Psychology

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My Vision for Future Africa

The contribution of my research over the last eight years has been through the secondary analyses of PIRLS 2006 and PIRLS 2011 datsets in attempts to uncover those factors that play different roles for children from diverse language backgrounds and that the conundrum faced by the education system still remains the discrepancy between home languages and language of teaching and learning for a vast majority of children in the Foundation Phase of schooling. Results from PIRLS 2006 had a policy impact and provided intervention directives in attempts to address a most basic skill learners in the South African education system currently lack. The National Department of Education elected me as a member of the Annual National Assessment program. Over the last two years, journalists from the media contacted me to comment on issues of education and reading literacy. Some examples include my participation in Talk Radio 702 discussions and i have been quoted in the Mail and Guardian (2013), theRapport and City Press (2014).