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  title info:
    title: Using mixed methods to explore the validity of a secondary school monitoring system
    sub title: a case from South Africa
  name:
    name part: Scherman, Vanessa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Smit, Brigitte
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Case studies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The issue of quality education is a critical topic of discussion, for South Africa facing the challenge of implementation amid a plethora of progressive policies. The purpose of the research reported here is to describe the procedures undertaken to explore the feasibility of implementing a monitoring system in the South African context. The research was guided by two main research questions. The first or the main research question is how appropriate is the Middle Years Information Systemas a monitoring system in the South African context? This non-experimental study used a mixed-methods design, rooted in pragmatism, to explore validity and reliability issues of using Middle Year Information System as a possible monitoring system that would provide a balanced view of the school's contribution to academic gains made by students. The samples included in the study were from National Department of Education officials (two officials from curriculum and assessment); Provincial Department of Education officials (one mathematics specialist, one language specialist, and one specialist from the Gauteng Department of Education Office for Standards in Education); specialists in the field of language, mathematics, and psychology; and 11 schools. In particular, content-related validity (including curriculum validity), construct-related validity, and predictive validity were examined, whereas inferences drawn with regard to reliability were done by means of internal consistency reliability. The second main research question extends the first research question. If Middle Year Information System is valid, with South African adaptations, and reliable, then what factors on a school, classroom, and student-level could have an effect on student performance. Thus, the second main research question is which factors could have an effect on student performance and therefore inform the design of the monitoring system?
  target audience: specialized
  note: Vanessa Scherman, Brigitte Smit.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-sa---
  subject:
    topic: High schools
    topic: Management
    topic: Research
    geographic: South Africa
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Education, Secondary
    topic: Research
    geographic: South Africa
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Mixed methods research
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Écoles secondaires
    topic: Gestion
    topic: Recherche
    geographic: Afrique du Sud
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Méthodes de recherche mixtes
    genre: Études de cas
  subject:
    topic: Education, Secondary
    topic: Research
  subject:
    topic: Mixed methods research
  subject:
    geographic: South Africa
  classification: LB3011.5 .S34 2017
  classification: 371.58
  related item:
    title info:
      title: SAGE Research Methods
      part name: Cases
  identifier: 9781526422590
  identifier: 152642259X
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UAB
    record creation date: 170313
    record change date: 20240923170335.8
    record identifier: in00005494811
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng