Assessment reform in South Africa: Opening up or closing spaces for teachers?

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-107

  Bansilal, Sarah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

APOS; Assessment; Common Tasks for Assessment (CTA); Curriculum implementation; South Africa; Valsiner's zone theory; Zone of free movement (ZFM); Zone of promoted action (ZPA)

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051469036     PISSN: 00131954     EISSN: 15730816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10649-011-9311-8     Document Type: Article

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