Assessment for Learning: Using Learners' Test Data for Professional Development in the Foundation Phase
The purpose of this course is to help you as a mathematics teacher to use information (data) from the assessment of learners’ work to improve teaching and learning in your classroom. The five units show you how to become more aware of the errors your learners make, how to understand these errors and the misconceptions that may have caused them, as well as how to plan lessons and assessment... more
Cracking the Code to Educational Analysis: a 22 Video Series, Freely Available on YouTube
Wayne Hugo, author of /Cracking the Code to Educational Analysis/ (Pearson Education South Africa, 2013) has produced a video series that introduces the essentials of his book and provides practical examples. In his own words: "The idea behind the book and this series of videos is to enable anyone to learn the basics of educational analysis by asking 10 questions that get to the heart of... more
Educational Measurement and Evaluation
This course aims at introducing you to basic concepts of educational measurement, monitoring, assessment and evaluation. Furthermore, it seeks to equip you with basic knowledge and skills that are important for developing tools for measurement, assessment, and monitoring of educational attainments and institutional performance. more
University of Fort Hare Distance Education Project. Core Learning Areas Course: Natural Science. Umthamo 5: Fair Tests
The outcome of this umthamo relate to integrating the way children think and work scientifically in the classroom. There will be a focus on experimenting, as well as the related process skills of using time relationships and controlling and manipulating variables. Teachers will also be asked to reflect on their role as they help learners develop these science skills. more
Assessing Algebra in the Senior Phase: A Practical Guide
This booklet was first developed in 2004, shortly after the introduction of the Revised National Curriculum Statement in South Africa. The intention of the booklet was to help teachers of senior phase (junior secondary) to integrate assessment into their teaching and learning. more
Moderate Assessment (PDF)
The focus of this module is not only on moderation but also on the management of moderation processes at subject, department and school level. The current emphasis on moderation is the result of an increased emphasis on accountability and quality assurance in education. Informing this emphasis is the desire to ensure that assessments are fair, reliable, valid and consistent. more
Journal of Education
The*/ Journal of Education/* is an interdisciplinary publication of original research and writing on education. The journal aims to provide a forum for scholarly understanding of the field of education. A general focus of the journal is on curriculum. Curriculum is understood in a wide and interdisciplinary sense, encompassing curriculum theory, history, policy and development at all levels... more
Education as Change
This accredited journal publishes contributions from any field of education. While the emphasis is on empirical research, theoretical or methodological papers, review articles, short communications, book reviews and letters containing fair commentary on previously published articles will also be considered. Priority is given to articles that are relevant to Africa or that address cross-... more
Plan and conduct assessment (Word)
This module is aimed at helping you perform these roles to the best of your ability. As such, it provides you with information on assessment and evaluation in general and on outcomes-based assessment in particular. It attempts to show you how assessment contributes to quality teaching and learning and how it promotes accountability. Most importantly, though, it places assessment in context... more
Plan and conduct assessment (PDF)
This module is aimed at helping you perform these roles to the best of your ability. As such, it provides you with information on assessment and evaluation in general and on outcomes-based assessment in particular. It attempts to show you how assessment contributes to quality teaching and learning and how it promotes accountability. Most importantly, though, it places assessment in context,... more
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