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Howie, Sarah; Scherman, Vanessa; Venter, Elsie – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
South Africa's education system is still deep in the throes of reform under its third Minister of Education since 1994. Poor communities, in particular those of rural Africans, bear the brunt of the past inequalities. The challenge was to explore the extent of the "gap" in students' scores by comparing the advantaged and disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Disadvantaged Schools, Science Tests, Least Squares Statistics