IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF ASSESSMENTS AT SCHOOL LEVEL: CEA Staff Members Attend an Assessment Workshop at DBE

Posted on January 18, 2023

Two staff members from the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), Mr Mishack Tshele and Mr Gabriel Mokoena, joined delegates at the national workshop on Improving the Quality of Assessment at School Level, organised by the Department of Basic Education at its offices in Pretoria. The purpose of the 2-day workshop on the 31st October and 1st November 2022 was firstly, to present how diagnostic assessment data can be used to improve learning outcomes, secondly to showcase an assessment for learning model that can be implemented in the provinces, thirdly, to receive input on how school-based assessment can be quality assured in the GET (General Education and Training) Phase.

Among key presentations at the workshop were a presentation on using TIMMS data diagnostically by Dr Vjay Reddy. The delegates were later divided into three commissions to tackle various topics on assessments. The first commission was tasked to find out what diagnostic data is available in the provinces, who use the data, how it is being used, what the key gaps are and how to improve data use. The second commission looked at the implementation of the Assessment for Learning (AFL), which was interrogating issues such as: What is currently on the AFL in the provinces? How can the implementation of Assessment for Learning be explained? What are the AFL implications on recording and reporting, and what could be the key success indicators of AFL implementation? The third commission was on quality assuring School Based Assessment (SBA) and answered questions on SBA quality assurance processes happening in the provinces, who was responsible for the quality assurance of SBA in the province, the best practices that could be considered and the support materials and tools needed for the quality assurance process

 

- Author Gabriel Mokwena

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