The 2nd Questionnaire Development Group meeting for 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).

South Africa participates in the PIRLS 2021 pilot study

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.

CEA Staff Member Discusses PIRLS Literacy 2016 Results at NAPTOSA Reading Conference

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.

PIRLS National Research Coordinators meeting in Belgrade

Posted on March 13, 2020

Dr Surette van Staden attended the 4th PIRLS National Research Coordinators meeting in Belgrade from 1-6 March 2020.

CEA and Western Cape Education Department examined the 2019 systemic testing results

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...

Student represents UP at Stellenbosch Quantitative Methods Meeting

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.

UP researchers visit the University of Hamburg

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

CEA researchers attend ECER 2019 in Hamburg

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”