Tracking Changes in South African Reading Literacy Achievement A Developing Context Perspective

Surette van Staden, Ph.D. (2011), University of Pretoria, is Associate Professor in Pedagogic Diagnosis at the Institute for Teacher Education and School Development of the University of Innsbruck. She has published extensively on PIRLS South African data in the form of articles, technical reports and mainstream media engagements, and served most recently as National Research Coordinator for PIRLS 2021 in South Africa.

Celeste Combrinck, Ph.D. (2018), University of Pretoria, is a senior lecturer in the Department of Science, Maths and Technology Education. She is a student of Rasch measurement modeling and a passionate proponent of meaningful measurement. Her research interests include educational and psychological measurement, international large-scale assessment studies (ILSAs), mixed methods and student thriving.