Western Cape Education Minister Debbie Schäfer says 2021 Systemic Test results confirm the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education:
“Unfortunately, the results are dire.
The 2021 results are seen in comparison to tests conducted in 2019, as testing could not take place in 2020. While we had previously made great progress with a steady increase in performance in years preceding 2020, these gains have unfortunately been reversed as a result of the pandemic.
Overall, learners have fallen up to 70% of a school year behind previous cohorts in Language, and up to 106% of a year behind in Mathematics.
The greatest learning losses can be seen in the Foundation Phase. We have always maintained that the loss of contact (face-to-face) teaching time would affect our youngest learners the most as they do not have the same self-discipline, maturity or structure that our older learners would have to cope with rotating timetables and learning at home.”
Also a study in America showed that most vulnerable groups were at a greater disadvantage.
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