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| Join next week’s webinars to learn how to improve subject performance with DDD’s Learner Chart Report. We’ll show you how to profile learners, identify individual performance trends and build learner improvement interventions. Click below to book. | ||
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| NEXT UP: Diarise 20/21 Feb to hear from Mr Kagiso Peace Kameel, DCES in Teacher Development, Northern Cape. He’ll be hosting these webinars to share his experiences and advice on using DDD. Click to reserve your seat. | ||
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| In the headlines: Tackling drop-outs | ||
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| A new report reveals that while South Africa’s matric pass rate reached a historic 87,3% in 2024, the retention rate for students dropped to just 64,5%. The key to addressing this is deeper data (through tools like DDD) along with targeted interventions and early warning systems. Click here to read the full story in Daily Maverick. |
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| You’ll find better detail: Breakdowns of promotion statuses in the graphs that show term promotion rates. These will assist in understanding promotion and progression trends. |
You’ll gain more insight: Reasons for recorded learner and educator absenteeism. Information on learner records with missing or duplicate ID numbers. |
You’ll see new features: Promotion profiles for the Senior Phase grades. A school-level task marks information report, to analyse aggregated task performance. |
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| THE POWER OF DATA: THINK BIG, THINK BENEFITS! | ||||
| Having good data at the right time is useful. But how useful? Consider this: Netflix uses data analytics to check people’s viewing habits and then recommend shows that match their preferences. Since doing this, viewer activity has grown 75% and customer retention is up to 93%! Uber processes over 100 petabytes of data every day to help predict rider |
demand during high traffic. Millions of queries are handled by their data warehouse team every day, and 95% of those get a response in under 15 seconds – thanks to data analytics. “How much is a petabyte?” we hear you ask. If you had a petabyte's worth of 1Gbyte USB flash drives, lined up end to end, they’d stretch over 92 soccer fields. It's also how much storage space you would need if you took 4 000 digital photos every day, for the rest of your life. |
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IT TAKES A VILLAGE: Changing lives in Tabankulu, EC | |||
| For Principal Ntlahleni Magwana, DDD has been a game changer. In the past five years, attendance at Ludeke Junior Secondary School has improved from 89% in 2017 to 95% in Term 4 2024 – and with a 100% pass rate for the Grade 7 class! The secret, he says, lies in building a data mindset and shared accountability throughout the community: Educators track trends through DDD; learners share their goals in a termly “commitment |
ceremony”; and parents commit to playing an active role in their child's learning. When faced with societal issues such as alcohol abuse, violence or poverty, Principal Magwana calls upon community leaders, traditional leaders and ward councillors for support. And there you have it: When data is transformed into action and everyone is involved, even schools facing the toughest challenges can score top marks! |
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