Posted on August 12, 2021
The Centre for Evaluation an Assessment (CEA) has completed the packing of assessment material in preparation for the data collection phase of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2021
Posted on October 30, 2020
The Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), Dr Surette van Staden attended the second Questionnaire Development Group (QDG) meeting on 13 and 14 July for the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS 2021).
Posted on October 30, 2020
The Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), with the help from the Department of Basic Education, conducted the pilot study of the international reading assessment, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS 2021) in South Africa as the country prepares to roll out the PIRLS 2021.
Posted on April 24, 2020
Mrs Karen Roux, a researcher at the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), was invited to speak at the National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa (NAPTOSA) annual reading conference on the 6th of March.
Posted on March 13, 2020
Dr Surette van Staden attended the 4th PIRLS National Research Coordinators meeting in Belgrade from 1-6 March 2020.
Posted on February 14, 2020
The staff members of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) met with the representatives from Western Cape Education Department, School Development Unit (SDU) and Dark Data on the 10th February 2020 to review the items for the Western Cape Education Department’s 2019 provincial...
Posted on January 03, 2020
Mr Last Sinandawa represented the University of Pretoria (UP) at the Stellenbosch quantitative data analysis meeting, hosted by the Research on Socio-Economic Policy (RESEP) centre.
Posted on October 04, 2019
The University of Hamburg’s Diversity in Education Research Centre (DiVER) is headed by Prof. Ingrid Gogolin. DiVER’s research focuses on problems of migration and linguistic diversity in education
Posted on September 20, 2019
The European Educational Research Association (EERA) hosted their 2019 conference in Hamburg with the theme: “Education in an Era of Risk – the Role of Educational Research for the Future”
Posted on September 20, 2019
The Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) has been hosting a series of seminars to explore the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results.
Posted on July 01, 2019
Mrs Karen Roux and Mr Gabriel Mokoena from the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) hosted a seminar to discuss the selection and development of English Home Language passages and items.
Posted on July 01, 2019
The Centre for evaluation and Assessment (CEA) will be hosting a series of seminars from 28 June 2019 to further explore the findings of the international study Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS 2016).
Posted on June 14, 2019
The staff members of the CEA took a leisurely time out to express artistic creativity at the Clay Café at The Big Red Barn in Olifantsfontein in May 2019.
Posted on April 30, 2019
Ms Nomahlubi Sitsha received her Masters’ degree in Assessment and Quality Assurance in Education and Training at the Faculty of Education’s autumn graduation ceremony held at the Hillcrest campus on the 16 of April 2019.
Posted on April 15, 2019
Dr Celeste Combrinck, from Science Mathematics and Technology Education department, is the first recipient of the WERA Visiting Researcher Award.
Posted on April 15, 2019
The Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), Dr Surette van Staden expressed pride in the CEA’s contribution towards the School Monitoring Survey (SMS) report which was released by the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga in April 2019.
Posted on March 01, 2019
Dr Surette van Staden, Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) attended the PIRLS Questionnaire Development Group meeting in Liege, Belgium, from 5-8 February 2019.
Posted on March 01, 2019
Mr Mishack Tshele (Data manager, CEA) did items analysis for the English First additional language items for the Teacher Assessment Resources for Monitoring and Improving Instruction (TARMII) project.
Posted on March 01, 2019
Two members of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), namely Mrs Karen Roux (Project Manager) and Mr Gabriel Mokoena (Fieldwork Manager) were invited to attend an item review meeting on the 15th of February at Northlink College, Cape Town.
Posted on March 01, 2019
Mrs Karen Roux, the project coordinator at the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment co-authored an article with Prof. Caroline Long (University of Johannesburg) and Ms Nangamso Mtsatse (University of South Africa) to investigate the use Lexile® Framework for Reading as an educational tool for...
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