Policy emphasise that there are formal as well as informal assessment.
The assessment tasks are regarded as formal assessment. Assessment tasks are compiled of a number of activities that form part of discreet teaching to ensure that a learner will be able to show his/her level of performance. All activities are assessed but not all are recorded.
Informal Assessment can be considered formative assessment and are very important for the developmental learning that should atake place. Teachers in the Foundation Phase are making daily observations that form part of informal assessment.
Through discreet teaching and informal as well as formal assessment barriers to learning are identified and teachers are requested to do intervention with learners were these barriers occur.
Concerns:
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Contact Time in the Foundation Phase
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Background of the Learners
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Language
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Educators
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Learner teacher Ratio
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Resources
For learners to be able to learn and achieve optimally is it fair to have a formal assessment task weekly? Shouldn't we rather reduce formal assessment tasks and concentrate more on informal assessment?
I would like to communicate on this and also hear the opinions of other.