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Item Looking beyond educational indicators: an analysis of differences in learner results of a standardised English language comprehension test administered in Katima Mulilo and Rundu educational regions of Namibia(University of the Western Cape, 2003) Makuwa, Demus Kaumba; Bak, Nelleke; Faculty of EducationThis thesis attempted to develop insight into why, contrary to expectation and predictions, learners in Rundu obtained better scores in a standardised English comprehension test than learners in Katima Mulilo, given that the conditions of teaching and learning were judged to be least favourable in Rundu.Item The motivation for, and establishment of education management and development centres (EMDCs) in the Western Cape, South Africa(University of the Western Cape, 2004) Beukes, Cecil Joseph; Bak, Nelleke; Faculty of EducationThe aim of this thesis is to investigate the motivation for the proposed Education Management Development Centres (EMDCs). It also addresses what improvements to the current system EMDCs are supposed to make and how EMDCs hope to enhance collaboration between the Western Cape Education Department and local schools. It also look at the role of the proposed EMDCs and specifically focus on how they hope to promote better inter-sectoral support between the Western Cape Education Department and local schools.Item Objective teacher evaluation and democracy in a changing South Africa(University of the Western Cape, 1992) Waghid, Yusef; Bak, Nelleke; Faculty of EducationIn this minithesis I attempt to explain what could be meant by an objective and democratic teacher evaluation system. The central question which I address is whether the current South African teacher evaluation system could lay claim to the kind of objectivity and democracy I develop in my minithesis."