This partnership designed instructional technology to improve student skills and achievement in identified areas of weakness in an effort to raise the percentage of qualifying university entrants among South African students from disadvantaged areas. Focusing on mathematics, the partners recruited the national moderator of the 2001 mathematics Grade 12 examination to design diagnostic tests and study materials. Materials were distributed for field-testing to 800 students enrolled in the STAR Schools program in Johannesburg and to 1,200 students enrolled in the Ikateleng Programs at Potchefstroom at the Vaal Triangle. The students used the materials to prepare for the November 2001 matriculation exam and provided feedback to the partnership.

Partners incorporated the feedback into study materials and distributed 1,200 copies of revised materials in preparation for the November 2002 exam. After this, partners revised, redesigned, and distributed 800 copies of the final study materials based upon student feedback. The average pass rate for students on the Ikateleng project in 2000 was 74 percent. After the introduction of the study materials in 2001, the pass rate increased to 78 percent; and by 2002, the pass rate was 81 percent - a seven percent gain over two years.