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 3/12/2008 12:09 PM
 

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.

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 4/11/2008 8:05 PM
 

 At least I am coping just fine. May be I was lucky to have attended some few fruitful workshops. I ended up finding myself workshoping colleagues in my work place.

The assessment Standards are in short our objectives that through them we could be able to achieve simultaneously the Learning outcomes and the Critical outcomes with the Developmental outcomes.

Next time when we've got enough time, I hope we will chat a bit.

   

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 5/13/2008 1:34 PM
 

We have two sets of Assessment Standards; the core and optional and it has been mentioned that the core assessment standard will be examined in papers 1 & 2 and the optional will be examined in paper 3 until 2010 (Grade 12).  I have also learnt that the optional may be examined as the core in 2011 (Grade 12 NSC).  Say that is the case, then the optional assessment standards should be introduced as the core in Grade 10 as from 2009, Grade 11 in 2010 and Grade 12 in 2011.  I think it is about time that we start to familiarise ourselves, especially Grade 10 teachers, with the content covered by the optional assessment standards sooner, that is before the end of June 2008.

Gabs should be identified and workshops be conducted on the content/gabs before the implematation next year, if ever.

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 5/13/2008 2:16 PM
 

i just wish the assessment standards,especially for languages could be grouped or link together so that it becomes easier for educators to use them and focus more on the learning content.-much time is used up when they try to look up for assessment standards they can focus on.maybe facilitators can do this or organise workshops where these AS' can be grouped.looking for contents is an easy task but ofcourse before that you have to know your AS'.maybe again a policy document that has linked these, can be developed.these will serve as sort of syllabus for the educators and learners to focus on.then much time will be on teaching.I am telling you the frustration is these AS and LO's,if we get these right then we are on the right way.

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