Gabrielle Wills
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6503282 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gabrielle Wills |
| PRENOMES | Gabrielle |
| SOBRENOME | Wills |
| ASSINATURA | WILLS G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8040-474X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
One Step Forward, Three Steps Back
The Depression era introduced both unprecedented and reoccurring anxieties that deeply affected average Americans. The question of how to respond aesthetically to major issues of economy, social instability, and an unsure future led artists to follow a canon of popular art that pointed to the idealized solidarity of an American people bonded by an imagined national community. Government-sponsored artists distilled ideals of national identity and …
Priority interventions for reducing stunting in the complementary feeding age group in South Africa
In South Africa, approximately one in four children under the age of five is stunted (NDoH, Stats SA, SAMRC & ICF, 2019) – a rate that has remained persistently high. The enduring social and economic impact of stunting, coupled with rising food prices, underscores the need for interventions that are both effective and affordable. This review synthesises global evidence on strategies for children aged 6–24 months and evaluates their suitability wi…
Stunting in South Africa – How do we shift the needle
1. Stunting remains one of the most persistent public health challenges facing children in South Africa. The prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years in 2021–3 was about 29% – a figure t
Covid-19 disruptions and education in South Africa
This paper provides an overview of learning losses and altered schooling patterns in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021). Five major trends emerge from a review of the evidence. These include significant learning losses (38–118% of a year of learning), widened learning inequality, lowered grade repetition rates, increased secondary school enrolments and an unprecedented rise in candidates writing and passing the National Senior …
Mitigating the Impact of Intergenerational Risk Factors on Stunting
A large body of research investigates the determinants of stunting in young children, but few studies have considered which factors are the most important predictors of stunting. We examined the relative importance of predictors of height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) and stunting among children under 5 years of age in seven of the most food-insecure districts in South Africa using data from the Grow Great Community Stunting Survey of 2022. We used domi…
Early childhood care and education access in South Africa during Covid-19
Using a longitudinal telephonic survey of adults, this paper provides empirical evidence from South Africa on early childhood care and education (ECCE) attendance trends just before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 39% of adult respondents living with children aged 0–6 indicated that at least one child had attended an ECCE programme in February 2020. After a period of ECCE programme closures and lockdowns, estimates fell to as low as 7% in…
Measuring school leadership and management and linkages with literacy
This paper describes a process to develop and trial new metrics in South Africa to quantify school leadership and management practices or processes that are considered theoretically related to literacy outcomes. The predictive validity of these measures is assessed in challenging contexts, including 60 township and rural primary schools in South Africa. We observe a randomness to how better leadership and management practices are distributed acro…
Benchmarking oral reading fluency in the early grades in Nguni languages
To prevent children from falling behind in the developmental sequence of reading, a shared vision of what reading success looks like is required. This paper provides the first benchmarks for early grade oral reading fluency that are necessary (albeit not sufficient) to read for meaning in three Nguni languages – isiZulu, isiXhosa and Siswati - belonging to the Southern Bantu family of African languages. In contrast with previous benchmarking meth…
Covid-19 learning losses
Principal leadership changes and their consequences for school performance in South Africa
Principal leadership changes and their consequences for school performance in South Africa
Measuring school leadership and management and linkages with literacy
This paper describes a process to develop and trial new metrics in South Africa to quantify school leadership and management practices or processes that are considered theoretically related to literacy outcomes. The predictive validity of these measures is assessed in challenging contexts, including 60 township and rural primary schools in South Africa. We observe a randomness to how better leadership and management practices are distributed acro…
Benchmarking oral reading fluency in the early grades in Nguni languages
To prevent children from falling behind in the developmental sequence of reading, a shared vision of what reading success looks like is required. This paper provides the first benchmarks for early grade oral reading fluency that are necessary (albeit not sufficient) to read for meaning in three Nguni languages – isiZulu, isiXhosa and Siswati - belonging to the Southern Bantu family of African languages. In contrast with previous benchmarking meth…
Covid-19 learning losses
Early childhood care and education access in South Africa during Covid-19
Using a longitudinal telephonic survey of adults, this paper provides empirical evidence from South Africa on early childhood care and education (ECCE) attendance trends just before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 39% of adult respondents living with children aged 0–6 indicated that at least one child had attended an ECCE programme in February 2020. After a period of ECCE programme closures and lockdowns, estimates fell to as low as 7% in…
Covid-19 disruptions and education in South Africa
This paper provides an overview of learning losses and altered schooling patterns in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2021). Five major trends emerge from a review of the evidence. These include significant learning losses (38–118% of a year of learning), widened learning inequality, lowered grade repetition rates, increased secondary school enrolments and an unprecedented rise in candidates writing and passing the National Senior …
Mitigating the Impact of Intergenerational Risk Factors on Stunting
A large body of research investigates the determinants of stunting in young children, but few studies have considered which factors are the most important predictors of stunting. We examined the relative importance of predictors of height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) and stunting among children under 5 years of age in seven of the most food-insecure districts in South Africa using data from the Grow Great Community Stunting Survey of 2022. We used domi…
Priority interventions for reducing stunting in the complementary feeding age group in South Africa
In South Africa, approximately one in four children under the age of five is stunted (NDoH, Stats SA, SAMRC & ICF, 2019) – a rate that has remained persistently high. The enduring social and economic impact of stunting, coupled with rising food prices, underscores the need for interventions that are both effective and affordable. This review synthesises global evidence on strategies for children aged 6–24 months and evaluates their suitability wi…
Stunting in South Africa – How do we shift the needle
1. Stunting remains one of the most persistent public health challenges facing children in South Africa. The prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years in 2021–3 was about 29% – a figure t
One Step Forward, Three Steps Back
The Depression era introduced both unprecedented and reoccurring anxieties that deeply affected average Americans. The question of how to respond aesthetically to major issues of economy, social instability, and an unsure future led artists to follow a canon of popular art that pointed to the idealized solidarity of an American people bonded by an imagined national community. Government-sponsored artists distilled ideals of national identity and …
Political science (5 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 obras) · Economic growth (3 obras) · Economics (3 obras) · Mathematics education (3 obras) · Pandemic (3 obras) · Population (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · School Choice and Performance (3 obras)