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…
School-based assessment (SBA) forms 25% of a candidate’,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…
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…