The Department of Basic Education’s new model of national assessments, which will be piloted in October, will be crucial for improving education, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Wednesday. During her budget vote she said that the Annual National Assessments (ANAs) had been reviewed and reconceptualised as the National Integrated Assessment Framework (NIAF). The new model will be sample-based and administered in Grades 3, 6 and 9 once every three years. This, said Motshekga, would provide the basic education sector, especially personnel involved in planning and evaluation, with valuable data on the health of the system and trends in learner performance. In 2016, the department seemed to cave in to pressure from the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu), and abandoned the ANAs for pupils. They were introduced in 2011 as a common annual assessment to test literacy and numeracy skills of pupils from grades 1 to 9. The assessments were at the centre of squabbl...
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