Exploring the functionality of the South African education quintile funding system

dc.contributor.advisorVan Staden, Suretteen
dc.contributor.emailroxlong@live.co.zaen
dc.contributor.postgraduateLongueira, Roxanneen
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-08T13:07:02Z
dc.date.available2017-06-08T13:07:02Z
dc.date.created2017-05-09en
dc.date.issued2016en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2016.en
dc.description.abstractSouth African education has undergone many changes in the past two decades. In an attempt to educate all South African children and provide as many prospects as possible, a funding system was adopted with the intention of achieving "redress, equity and quality" (DoE, 2006). The goal of redress was important to begin solving system discrepancies between different social groups in the country whereas the goal of equity is one of the means to attain redress. The Quintile Funding System has been considered the means to achieve equity and redress. This tiered system directs more funding to those learners in need of financial support than more affluent learners. By increasing funding to learners of a lower socio-economic status (SES), learners who would otherwise be disadvantaged, could possibly reap the benefits of more opportunities through good quality education. This study aims to investigate the functionality and relevance of the quintile funding system. By using the preProgress in International Reading Literacy Study (prePIRLS) 2011 reading literacy test results and background survey questionnaire data, the SES of each quintile is examined. The reading literacy achievement is also used as a proxy for education quality and, by examining the differences in prePIRLS 2011 reading literacy achievement of the quintiles, the levels of quality may be established. The SES and reading achievement enables a comparison between quintiles to justify the use of a five-tiered funding system. An effective funding system should ensure that the largest number of learners in the country reap the most benefits from a good quality education.en_ZA
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dc.description.degreeMEden
dc.description.departmentScience, Mathematics and Technology Educationen
dc.identifier.citationLongueira, R 2016, Exploring the functionality of the South African education quintile funding system, MEd Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60952>en
dc.identifier.otherA2017en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/60952
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen
dc.rights© 2017 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.en
dc.subjectUCTDen
dc.subjectThe Quintile funding systemen
dc.subjectSocio-Economic Statusen
dc.subjectBronfenbrenner's System's Theoryen
dc.subjectprePIRLSen
dc.titleExploring the functionality of the South African education quintile funding systemen_ZA
dc.typeDissertationen

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