An investigation of the perceptions of the education stakeholders into possible reasons for the poor pass rates in the senior certificate examinations in the Northern Province in 1995.

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dc.contributor.authorThemane, Mahlapahlapana Johannes
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-30T08:21:35Z
dc.date.available2019-04-30T08:21:35Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.descriptionSubmitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF EDUCATION in the Department of Education at the Witwatersrand Universityen_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates the perceptions that stakeholders such as students, teachers, parents and education officials hold about what the possible reasons are for pass poor pass rates in the Senior Certificate Examinations within the Northern Province of South Africa. This study was limited to the Northern Province of South Africa. It focussed on the Std. 10 examination results of 1995. Three schools covered the sample. One school (A) Was typical of school with good or above average public examination scores. The second (B) had average examination scores and the third (C) had comparatively low examinations scores. The schools reflected a range of the overall results of the Northern Province for 1995. In essence this was a case study in which qualitative and quantitative techniques (semi-structured interviews and structured questionnaires) were employed and cross referenced to achieve a degree of triangulation to determine commonly held viewpoints, The analysis show that on one hand, stakeholders had different views regarding what the causes of poor pass rates were, and on the other hand there was substantial agreement on the conditions that were conducive to examination success.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianAndrew Chakane 2019en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/26841
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.subjectAcademic achievement -- South Africa.en_ZA
dc.subjectPass-fail grading system -- South Africa.en_ZA
dc.subjectHigh school equivalency examinations -- South Africa.en_ZA
dc.titleAn investigation of the perceptions of the education stakeholders into possible reasons for the poor pass rates in the senior certificate examinations in the Northern Province in 1995.en_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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