update on progress in preparations for ana 2013 meeting of the national consultative forum 20 august...
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Update on Progress in Preparations for ANA 2013
Meeting of the National Consultative Forum
20 August 2013
Important to note:
• The education system has made significant
strides in implementing annual national
assessment as a national priority.
• The 3rd large-scale ANA will be conducted on 10-
13 September 2013 on literacy and numeracy.
• Approximately 7 million learners in Grades 1-6
and Grade 9 from more than 20 000 mainstream
and special schools will sit for the assessment.
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Presentation outline
• Test development & distribution
• Test administration
• Verification ANA
• Marking
• Support to schools & learners
• The SACMEQ IV Study
• Conclusion3
Test development & distribution
• Tests have been developed, quality-assured
and printing is underway
• Delivery of test consignments to provincial
warehouses, where appropriate, will be
completed on 2 September 2013
• Recommendation is for each school to receive
test consignments at least three days before
test date for thorough checking of tests and
numbers.
Test administration
• Training of the core test administrators at
provincial level has been completed.
• Training involved familiarizing participants
with the contents of the Test Administration
Manual.
• Provinces must ensure each school has a
copy of the manual.
Verification ANA• V-ANA will be conducted by an Independent
Agent .
• V-ANA will be administered on a sample of
schools to a sample of learners.
• All learners will write the same papers and
the sampling of the learners will happen after
the test administration.
• The same learners will be sampled for both
Language and Mathematics.
Marking
• Teachers must mark and SMTs moderate the
marking before marks are entered into the
mark sheets and results are sent to parents.
• Marking guidelines/memoranda will be
provided and must be followed.
• Provinces and districts will arrange for
centralized moderation of sampled scripts
from Grades 3, 6 & 9. Mark sheets must
accompany sampled scripts.
Support to schools & learners
• Report with national, provincial & district
information.
• Guideline on the utilization of ANA data.
• Diagnostic report on knowledge and skills that
learners were able or unable to demonstrate in
the 2012 assessment, with proposed remedial
measures.
• Sets of exemplars per phase for revision
posted on the DBE website, CDs sent to
provinces and districts
Support to schools & learners
• Assessment guidelines, in all 11 official
languages and for both literacy and numeracy
which specify the scope and depth of ANA
2013.
• DBE released a communiqué, in all 11 official
languages, targeting parents on the purpose
of ANA and giving them tips on how they could
assist their children in preparing for ANA 2013.
The SACMEQ IV Study
The SACMEQ design
• SACMEQ is policy- rather than (academic)
research-driven.
• Agenda set by the SACMEQ Governing Body
made up of Ministers of Education of member
countries.
• Building capacity within education ministries to
evaluate the quality of their education systems.
• Testing Grade 6 learners and their teachers in
Reading and Mathematics.11
The SACMEQ design
• Collects data on contextual data on school and
home factors that might have an impact on the
quality of teaching and learning: complete for
2013
• Includes testing of learner and teacher
knowledge of HIV&AIDS
• South Africa will collect data on learner and
teacher knowledge of TB (national option)12
The SA SACMEQ IV Sample
Prov.
No. of schools
Estimated No. of learners
EC 45 1 125
FS 20 500
GP 50 1 250
KZN 65 1 625
LP 40 1 000
MP 25 625
NC 15 375
NW 20 500
WC 25 625
Total
305 7 625
Conclusion
Necessary measures are in place and
satisfactory progress is in process for ANA 2013
administration.
Need to intensify communication in general and
preparation of learners for the assessment in
particular.
Monitoring (and support to) schools at all levels
should be a priority during the administration of
the assessment.14