The team of four colleagues, Prof. Rinelle Evans, Mr Hendrick De Kock, Mr Gabriel Mokoena and Ms Taslima Ahmed from the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) met with the Directorate of Research, Western Cape Education Department (WCED), The School Development Unit (SDU) of the University of Cape Town, Chief and Senior markers for this year’s round of the Memorandum Discussions at the Cape Teaching and Leadership Institute (CTLI) from the 14th - 15th October 2022. Prof. Evans, supported by Ms Taslima Ahmed, led the Language Discussions while Mr De Kock engaged the Mathematics markers on the new test items.

The purpose of the meeting was mainly to finalise the language and mathematics memoranda with the WCED’s chief and senior markers in preparation for the marking of the 2022 cycle of systemic tests. The CEA has been involved in the development and refinement of language and mathematics test items for the Western Cape Systemic testing. The WCED systemic testing, which comprise of language and mathematics tests for Grades 3, 6 and 9 in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa, has been administered in the province since 2002 to identify areas for improvement and areas of the curriculum that require additional support.