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
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...
Posted on March 01, 2019
On the 15th of February the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment was represented at the launch of the National Reading Coalition by Dr Nelladee Palane.
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 October 22, 2018
Anouk Ticheloven and Yagmur Celik made a presentation on translanguaging in German schools, a project led by Prof. Sara Fürstenau at Hamburg University.
Posted on September 28, 2018
The Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA) held its 2018 conference
Posted on September 28, 2018
Research on ICT availability and utilisation for primary school reading presented at the RESEP 2018 conference
Posted on July 11, 2018
Ms Karen Roux, Project Co-ordinator of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), attended the Ninth National Research Co-ordinator (NRC) meeting of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016, held at the Steigenberger Hotel in Hamburg, Germany, in February.
Posted on July 11, 2018
Learner achievement as evaluated by the Progress in Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011 within primary schools at the Grade 4 level is markedly differentiated by the language of learning and teaching of the school – more specifically by whether learners are taught in English, Afrikaans or...
Posted on May 25, 2018
The South African Rasch PLC (Professional Learning Community) members met on the Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Department at University of Pretoria’s Groenkloof Campus to further their understanding of measurement and assessment in education early in May 2018.
Posted on March 22, 2018
Dr Surette Van Staden, Acting Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) conducted a two-day fieldwork training on the 7th and 8th March 2013 at the CEA. The training was intended to prepare the fieldworkers for a quantitative data collection in 3 provinces, Western Cape, Free...
Posted on March 22, 2018
Ms Karen Roux, Project Co-ordinator of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) attend the 9th National Research Coordinator (NRC) meeting of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 held at the Steigenberger Hotel in Hamburg, Germany from 12 to 13 February 2018.
Posted on February 21, 2018
Mr Mishack Tshele (Data Manager of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment) and Ms Celeste Combrick (Science, Mathematics and Technology Education) attended the 7th International Conference on Probabilistic Models for Measurement Developments with Rasch Models held at the University of Western...
Posted on February 17, 2018
Dr Surette van Staden was appointed as Acting Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment. She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education.
Posted on December 05, 2017
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 report paints a disturbing picture of primary school reading literacy in South Africa, with no significant progress nationally since the last report in 2011.
Posted on November 08, 2017
The Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) hosted an international visitor from Brazil in September 2017. Prof. Fernando Tavares who coordinates a research group at the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation (CAEd) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) visited the CEA...
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