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

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