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Professional Learning Communities for Teacher Development: The Collaborative Enquiry Process in the Date-Informed Practice Improvement Project (DIPIP)

The goal of the research and development Data-Informed Practice Improvement Project (DIPIP) was to create a context for professional conversations in which mathematics teachers, together with university academics, graduate students, and government-based subject advisors, discussed what information test data can provide to help think about reasons for learner errors and how these might be addressed through collaborative lesson planning, teaching and reflection.

This project report addresses the first of the outcomes of the project:

A documented collaborative enquiry process through which academics, subject facilitators and school teachers together discuss what data suggests about reasons for learner errors and how these insights might be addressed through joint lesson planning and reflection.

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Research Reports

Diagnosis of Learner Problems in B.A. (Hum) Programme by IDE, UNISWA

This research report is an Evaluation of B.A. (Hum) Programme being an analysis of learners' opnion about various activities from programme publicity till result declaration. The purpose of this research was to make the programme more learner friendly by seeking their opinion about various activities and make necessary changes wherever possible and found fit and proper. These distance learners live isolated at different places of Swaziland and have very few occasions for a face to face contact with Academic counsellors. They need guidance about how to study in an isolated situation, write good quality assignemtns, prepare a project report and appear for final examination. The analysis of their views made recommendations for putting sample assignments and sample project reports on University of Swaziland website and the students' handbook must have information about how to study in an isolated situation. Learner orientation and workshops for their teachers about how to deal with distance learners was part of recommendations. This project report opens the doors for similar exercise for other programmes.

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Research Reports

Teachers' Opinion to Staff Development Using Distance Education Mode

This research report is a critical analysis of opinion gathered through an opinion scale among 540 school teachers of Swaziland regarding staff development for Effective Classroom Management using distance education mode. The opinions were regarding Orientation, Session, two days contact session, various 17 units of self instructional materials and a 3 month interaction with peers and resource persons using a variety of media. It revealed some fruitful guidelines useful for organising thie programme in the future for other teachers. This project is a landmark effort in the direction of making this staff development programme learner friendly among school teachers of Swaziland. An acceptance and implementation of the findings may enhance the quality of this programme. The purpose of publishing these results in book form is to appraise the outcomes among all programme organisers for staff development among school teachers using distance education mode.

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Research Reports

The Saide ACEMaths Project: Final Report

A reflective report on the Saide ACEMaths project, which piloted a collaborative approach to the sourcing, adaptation and publication as Open Educational Resources (OERs) of existing suitable materials for use in a variety of South African teacher education programmes.

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Research Reports