Depending on the Learning Outcome that the teacher/class is dealing with, any innovative teacher can link/group together some Assessment Standards. Subject Assessment Guidelines assist teachers to do this. I don't quite understand you when you say 'teachers can focus more on content ' as if learning outcomes can be used divorced from content. The LO's and AS's determine and drive content used for learning. I'm further confused when you seem to be suggesting that if we can get the LO's and AS's somehow out of the way "much time can be spent on teaching" Are you suggesting by any stretch of imagination that teaching through LO's and AS's is not actual teaching and only content speaks to real teaching? Let's keep talking!

[quote user="mokokam"]

At a workshop for subject advisors organised by the Department of Education, issues were raised about underspecified assessment standards and content.

Do you have similar frustrations about assessment standards and content that make the teaching of mathematics cumbersome?

The purpose of this forum is to discuss the issues surrounding underspecification to ensure that we succeed in the teaching of our subject.

That is so true my friend.

From Miss Malatsi