Staff members at Rasch conference in Perth

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...

Dr Surette van Staden appointed as Acting Director of CEA

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.

8 out of 10 learners still cannot read at appropriate level

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.

Acting Director from CEA at PAPU 2017 congress

Posted on November 08, 2017

The Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA), in collaboration with various African psychology societies and universities, under the auspices of the Pan-African Psychology Union (PAPU) organised the first-ever continental psychology congress. The theme of the congress was Psychology for...

CEA prepares for release of South African Reading Literacy Achievement results

Posted on November 08, 2017

In preparation for the media release of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2016 results, the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria hosted the final National Steering Committee meeting for the year at the Ivory Manor...

Psychometric theory promoted at Groenkloof Campus

Posted on November 08, 2017

Can information be trusted? How can we as social scientists build a case for our hypotheses using Rasch models and methodological norms? These questions were posed at the most recent Rasch PLC meeting held in August 2017 at the Research Commons on the University of Pretoria’s Groenkloof...

Researchers from the CEA participates in transformation and decolonization debates

Posted on November 08, 2017

“Education in an era of decolonization and transformation” was the theme of the SAERA 2017 conference held at the Sun Boardwalk Hotel in Port Elizabeth from 23 – 26 October 2017. Transformation is at the forefront of many discussions in education. As indigenous knowledge systems...

CEA to form International collaboration with the Federal University of Juiz de Fora

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...