| South Africa’s education crisis: The quality of education in South Africa 1994-2011 N Spaull Johannesburg: Centre for Development and Enterprise 21 (1), 1-65, 2013 | 1115 | 2013 |
| Poverty & privilege: Primary school inequality in South Africa N Spaull International Journal of Educational Development 33 (5), 436-447, 2013 | 899 | 2013 |
| Schooling in South Africa: How low-quality education becomes a poverty trap N Spaull South African child gauge 12 (1), 34-41, 2015 | 405 | 2015 |
| Starting behind and staying behind in South Africa: The case of insurmountable learning deficits in mathematics N Spaull, J Kotze International Journal of Educational Development 41, 13-24, 2015 | 376 | 2015 |
| What do we know about primary teachers’ mathematical content knowledge in South Africa? An analysis of SACMEQ 2007 H Venkat, N Spaull International Journal of Educational Development 41, 121-130, 2015 | 272 | 2015 |
| Improving education quality in South Africa S Van der Berg, S Taylor, M Gustafsson, N Spaull, P Armstrong Report for the National Planning Commission 2, 1-23, 2011 | 205 | 2011 |
| Low quality education as a poverty trap S Van der Berg, C Burger, R Burger, M de Vos, G du Rand, M Gustafsson, ... Stellenbosch Economic Working Papers, 2011 | 200 | 2011 |
| A preliminary analysis of SACMEQ III South Africa N Spaull Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, 2011 | 190 | 2011 |
| Investigating the comprehension iceberg: Developing empirical benchmarks for early-grade reading in agglutinating African languages N Spaull, E Pretorius, N Mohohlwane South African Journal of Childhood Education 10 (1), 1-14, 2020 | 177 | 2020 |
| Counting the cost: COVID-19 school closures in South Africa and its impact on children N Spaull, S Van der Berg South African Journal of Childhood Education 10 (1), 1-13, 2020 | 171* | 2020 |
| Identifying binding constraints in education: Synthesis report for the Programme to Support Propoor Policy Development (PSPPD) S Van der Berg, N Spaull, G Wills, M Gustafsson, J Kotze Stellenbosch: Research on Socio Economic Policy (RESEP), Department of …, 2016 | 150* | 2016 |
| Access to what? Creating a composite measure of educational quantity and educational quality for 11 African countries N Spaull, S Taylor Comparative Education Review 59 (1), 133-165, 2015 | 145* | 2015 |
| Exploring relationships between oral reading fluency and reading comprehension amongst English second language readers in South Africa EJ Pretorius, N Spaull Reading and Writing 29, 1449-1471, 2016 | 137 | 2016 |
| Still falling at the first hurdle: Examining early grade reading in South Africa N Spaull, E Pretorius South African schooling: The enigma of inequality: A study of the present …, 2019 | 81 | 2019 |
| South African schooling: The enigma of inequality N Spaull, JD Jansen A study of, 2019 | 68 | 2019 |
| Accountability and capacity in South African education N Spaull Education as change 19 (3), 113-142, 2015 | 58 | 2015 |
| Examining oral reading fluency among rural Grade 5 English Second Language (ESL) learners in South Africa: An analysis of NEEDU 2013 N Spaull, K Draper South African Journal of Childhood Education 5 (2), 44-77, 2015 | 57 | 2015 |
| Primary School Performance in Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa N Spaull SACMEQ III Working Papers, 2011 | 56 | 2011 |
| Disentangling the language effect in South African schools: Measuring the impact of ‘language of assessment’in grade 3 literacy and numeracy N Spaull South African Journal of Childhood Education 6 (1), 1-20, 2016 | 55 | 2016 |
| Measuring access to learning over a period of increased access to schooling: The case of Southern and Eastern Africa since 2000 S Taylor, N Spaull International Journal of Educational Development 41, 47-59, 2015 | 54* | 2015 |
Stephen TaylorDirector: Research, Monitoring and Evaluation, in the South African Department of Basic EducationVerified email at sun.ac.za
