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Reading outcomes in both home language and English as first additional language suffered. File image Image: Daniel Born
SA’s primary schoolchildren who attended no-fee schools last year learnt between 50% to 75% less than what they normally do.
This is one of the findings of the National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (Nids-Cram) that was released on Wednesday.
The finding in the Nids-Cram Wave 4 Synthesis Report was based on the results of two independent studies the Early Grade Reading Study (EGRS) II in Mpumalanga and the Funda Wande Evaluation study in the Eastern Cape.
According to the Nids-Cram report, the EGRS II study involved children in a sample of 130 no-fee schools in Mpumalanga who were assessed on reading outcomes in both their Home Language (HL) and English as First Additional Language (Efal) from 2017 to 2020.