1. 1 Parliament 21 November 2012 Dr Arulsivanathan Naidoo Executive Manager: Stakeholder Relations: Pretoria

2. 2 Texture Cruise

3. 3 High Schools in Cape Town

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5. 5 Hot Spot Analysis

6. 6 Anselin Outlier Analysis

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8. 8 Bomfenbrenner (1979): defined four contributing groups to school performance Macro Level – Education Department, OBE, CAPS Meso Level – School funding, Teachers qualification, Micro Level – Individual Students, attendance, homework Exo Level – Socio- Economic Factors in the Community/ School feeder areas Levels of Poverty Level of Employment Access to Basic Services Household goods A useful definition of Socio economic status (SES) is: “Relative position of a family or individual on a hierarchal social structure based on their access to, or control over wealth, prestige and power” Willms 2004.

9. 9 The Coleman Report on equality of education opportunities was commissioned by the United States Congress 1966 to investigate the poor school performance of African American students. The study comprised a sample of 4000 schools across the United States of America (Coleman et al. 1966). The report found that the learner’s personal and family characteristics were major contributing influences on the students’ performance rather than the characteristics of the schools they attended. Coleman Report

10. 10 VariableEstimatet-statisticp-valueVIF Intercept58.9220.48<0.0001 *** Computer0.092.070.041 ***4.96 Employed0.132.310.020 ***1.82 Telephone0.122.880.004 ***4.89 Pass =58.92 +0.13 Employment +0.12 Telephone +0.09 Computer Regression Model

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12. 12 Simpsons Paradox

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14. 14 Geographically Weighted Regression

15. 15 Massachusetts, Jaggia and Kelly-Hawke (1994) Madagascar, Ramandriafamatanantsosa (1995) Townsend index of deprivation locations of individual schools, Conduit (1996) Florida, Tschinkel (1998) Kentucky school districts, Pitts and Reeves (1999) San Diego, Betts 2003 New South Wales department of education and training, Holmes-Smith 2006 Studies using Socio – Economic Factors

16. 16 Gordon and Monastiriotis (2003) Gibson and Asthana (1998) Conduit (1996) Fotheringham et al (2001) Studies using Spatial Statistics

17. 17 Thank you Arulsivanathan Naidoo aruln@statssa.gov.za Special Request info@statssa.gov.za aruln@statssa.gov.za