Exploring the implementation of the TIME Home Learning programme and learning trajectories of 5- to 7-year-olds: Assessment tools for literacy and numeracy

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dc.contributor.authorvon Blottnitz, Magali
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-09T08:42:39Z
dc.date.issued2025-11
dc.descriptionThis is the fifth in a series of learning briefs that unpack learnings from the TIME longitudinal study. This brief focuses on the two assessment tools that were used in the study: the WELA (early literacy) and MELA (early mathematics). The brief presents the tools within the greater context of existing tools for that age band, explains briefly how they were developed or adapted, and what lessons were gained from using them.
dc.description.abstractThis brief presents and discusses two assessment tools that were developed/adapted for, and used in, the TIME longitudinal study (2022-2023): the Wordworks Early Literacy Assessment (WELA) and the Mathematics Early Learning Assessment (MELA), within the broader landscape of assessment tools available in South Africa for 5-7 year olds. The brief starts by reviewing which other tools existed for that age band at the time of the field study and makes the case for the adaptation of the WELA literacy tool, and the development of the MELA mathematics tool. It then explains briefly how the MELA was developed and how the WELA was adapted for the purpose of the study, including rounds of piloting and adjusting. Finally, it unpacks lessons learned from using them, and room for further development of those tools.
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dc.description.sponsorshipDG Murray Trust
dc.identifier.citationvon Blottnitz, M. (2025). Exploring the implementation of the TIME home-learning programme and learning trajectories of 5-7 year olds, Brief 5, Wordworks: Cape Town.
dc.identifier.urihttps://africarxiv.ubuntunet.net/handle/1/10618
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.60763/africarxiv/10348
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWordworks, Cape Town
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTIME Learning Briefs; 5
dc.subjectFoundation phase
dc.subjectearly literacy
dc.subjectearly mathematics
dc.subjectnumeracy
dc.subjectTIME
dc.subjectSouth Africa
dc.subjectGrade R
dc.subjectGrade 1
dc.subjectreading
dc.subjectwriting
dc.subjectcounting
dc.subjectWELA
dc.subjectMELA
dc.subjectWordworks
dc.subjectRED INK
dc.subjectchild assessment
dc.subjectHUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects::Archaeology subjects::Archaeology, classical
dc.subjectphonological awareness
dc.subjectletter-sound knowledge
dc.titleExploring the implementation of the TIME Home Learning programme and learning trajectories of 5- to 7-year-olds: Assessment tools for literacy and numeracy
dc.title.alternativeTIME Learning Brief 5
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