Anne Oberholzer

Please, sir, may I have some more? – the under utilisation of school-based assessment in the National Senior Certificate in South Africa

August 2, 2018

36th annual conference (2010), Anne Oberholzer

School-based assessment (SBA) forms 25% of a candidate&#8217,s final result in each subject of the National Senior Certificate, the main end-of-school examination. The IEB has spent and continues to spend…

“How do you expect me to do something about it if you don’t tell me?”

August 2, 2018

33rd annual conference (2007), Anne Oberholzer

High-stakes examinations at the end of formal schooling in South Africa serve two key purposes: to provide a school-leaving certificate i.e. a statement of competence as well as for university…

Looking for the needle in a haystack

August 2, 2018

35th annual conference (2009), Anne Oberholzer

External assessment at Grade 9 in South Africa continues to be viewed by high-performing independent schools as an imposition on their teaching programmes and unnecessary in that it adds nothing…

Anne Oberholzer

Please, sir, may I have some more? – the under utilisation of school-based assessment in the National Senior Certificate in South Africa

“How do you expect me to do something about it if you don’t tell me?”

Looking for the needle in a haystack

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