Data cleaning and analysis

• Maths Benchmarks

• Nutrition in ECD

Data collection, cleaning and analysis:

• Learner & teacher absenteeism

• Gender gaps in schooling

• Repetition and dropout

• Teacher satisfaction

• Quality of teacher training

• Inequality in Foundation Phase

Manages data storage for team

Project management & data collection, cleaning & analysis (quant & qual) for a number of RCTs

• ECD intervention in KwaZulu-Natal

• Water intervention in Cape Town

• Social networks of entry level workers in Johannesburg

• Process Monitoring for a life skills intervention for secondary school girls in Nigeria

Creation of process documents

Managed and mentored

• Project Coordinators and Field Officers

• New RAs

• Interns

Dr Adaiah Lilenstein

• Worked on a classroom library evaluation (literature review, survey design, administering/following up on survey submissions, analysing data in Stata, writing a report)

• Cleaned and analysed large-scale educational datasets (EGRA; TIMSS; PIRLS)

• Tested Grade 4 reading skills & analysed data

RESEP

• Wrote a literature review on the links between learning outcomes and leadership, accountability & management

• Summarised literature on early grade reading/maths skills in Africa

Worked on a systems-based project with Prof Brahm Fleisch in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Worked under Prof Nic Spaull in the Economics Department

• Analysed large-scale educational datasets such as TIMSS and PIRLS with Stata

• Managed the production process for three volumes (Reading, Maths, Interventions) that were published in Dec 2022

  • Coordinated with the publishing team, peer reviewers and 77 authors

• Summarised literature for all research papers published on early grade literacy and numeracy in South Africa, Senegal, Kenya, Nigeria & Ethiopia

Interviewed Subject Advisors and Reading Coaches

Transcribed interviews on Otter

Worked on a TIMSS systematic review

Created content for a leadership course

Managed two content creators

Collected data through telephonic surveys