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STEP 2: ASSESSMENT
STEP 3: MODERATION
STEP 4: RECORDING
STEP 5: REPORTING
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ASSESSMENT STEP2:
PLANNING STEP 1:
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? The educator responsible for teaching the learning area to the specific grade.
RESOURCES / DOCUMENTS NEEDED Relevant Subject Assessment guidelines. Relevant Programmes of Assessment. Planning Template Relevant NCS document.
The educator responsible for teaching the learning area to the specific class.
Relevant Programmes of Assessment. Prescribed assessment tools eg. rubrics (where applicable)
STEP 4: RECORDING
Moderation encompasses the following 2 processes: (a) Internal Moderation and (b) External Moderation. In the interests of transparency, fairness and development, the subject educator will adhere to both processes in their entirety. Internal Moderation involves: 1. Evaluation of Planning: The Subject Head receives the educators planning preferably at the end of a quarter for the next quarter and evaluates it. Findings of these moderation sessions should be recorded as evidence of moderation. (A suggested template is included. See Addendum 2.) The Subject Head will file the report and will furnish the principal and the educator with a copy of it. 2. Evaluation of the marking of learners tasks: The subject team evaluates each members marking of the various tasks on the relevant Programme of Assessment. (A suggested template is included. See Addendum 3.) This process of evaluating a colleagues assessment practice will take place on an ongoing basis. The scheduled, weekly subject meetings should be used for this. If internal moderation reveals a difference in a mark and the educator concurs, that mark should then be changed. Findings of these moderation sessions should be recorded as evidence of moderation. (A suggested template is included. See Addendum 3). The Subject Head will file the report and will furnish the principal and the educator with a copy of it. External Moderation involves: 1. Attending all Standard Setting meetings for the subject, on the dates determined by the Curriculum Advisor. 2. Attending all Subject Cluster meetings on the dates determined by the cluster, and fully engaging in the moderating activity determined by that cluster. Learners will file their own work once the educator has returned it to them for consideration. This will occur after a task has been moderated. Marks and codes will be recorded on an ongoing, regular basis, throughout the quarter, on the Excel sheets provided. Marks will be recorded quarterly, using the assessment tasks completed by learners in a particular quarter. The final mark for each learner will be recorded electronically, on the software program specified by the SMT. (English Electronic Marksheets supplied by CA) Marks will only be recorded once a task had been moderated by the Subject team. The correctness of the recording will be verified by the Subject Head.
MODERATIONSTEP 3:
The Subject Head (Evaluation of Planning). The entire subject team (Evaluation of marking). The educator responsible for teaching the learning area to the specific grade. (Attendance at meetings.) The Assessment co-ordinator (for overall monitoring).
The complete set of instructions learners received. The assessment tool used to assess learners tasks. A document that can capture the findings of the moderation sessions (templates have been suggested elsewhere in this document.) The educators portfolio (for the filing of the reports)
The educator responsible for teaching the learning area to the specific class. (for recording of marks) The Subject Head (for verification of the recorded marks). The Assessment co-ordinator (for overall monitoring).
The electronic (computer) file. The educators own mark sheets. The educators portfolio. Learner portfolios.
The school will formally report to parents on learner progress in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd quarters. This will take the form of an official (signed and stamped) Report Card, printed on an original school letterhead. Quarterly reporting will take place at the end of a quarter (preferably) or, if circumstances dictate, no later than 10 school days into the next quarter. Quarterly reporting on learner progress will be based on a learners performance across the Assessment Tasks (as stipulated in the Programme of Assessment) completed in that particular quarter. The quarterly report will, in addition to the learners academic achievement, also reflect (a) the number of days a learner has been absent for that quarter, and (b) the school fees still owed to the school. The school will report on learner promotion at the end of the 4th quarter. This will take the form of an official (signed and stamped) Report Card, printed on an original school letterhead. Reporting on learner promotion will take cognizance of: 1. The learners academic performance throughout the year, i.e across all the tasks stipulated by the Programme of Assessment, 2. The number of years a learner has been in a phase (this currently applies to Senior Phase only.) 3. The learners chronological age. 4. The learners attendance record.
REPORTINGSTEP 5:
ADDENDUM 1:
SUBJECT / LEARNING AREA: ___________________________________________________ EDUCATOR: __________________________________________ DURATION: From _______________________ to _______________________. 5. TIME FRAME 4. LOs & ASs 3. RESOURCES TO BE USED
GRADE: ____
2. LEARNING ACTIVITIES
1. FORMAL ASSESSMENT
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Note-taking is an important life skill as it forces one to focus and helps to order ones thinking. It should become habitual, but it is not an easy skill; learners will take time to develop. Do spot checks regularly. This could be done in writing on the task sheet, or you could dictate it and, in so doing, give learners practice in listening and writing. Do a spot check. Ask learners to write answers to questions and then ask for verbal answers. Give everyday, familiar examples / texts Encourage groups to talk in English. Choose random learners to report back. For example, taking information from different sources, re-evaluating and restructuring that information Teach learners how to skim a text (read the 1st sentence in each paragraph, find main ideas) and scan for specific information. This improves reading speed. Dont only focus on specialist words / concepts also focus on ordinary linking words like: because of, as a result, consequently, on the other hand Choose individuals, pairs, groups or the whole class to read aloud from the materials / instructions you have given them. This is a valuable skill as it assists in developing cognitive skills and noticing skills Helps to develop cognitive skills. Dont ask Do you understand? They will answer Yes! Even if learners dont know the answer insist that they answer with Im not sure, I dont know the answer, please repeat/clarify the question. Dont ignore fast learners, but dont focus on them too much ask them to help others or give them additional instructions. Use reports (from newspapers, radio, TV) on the issues of the day preferably related. This cycles back to outcomes the ability to reflect, summarise and assess own learning is very important and needs to be practiced regularly and systematically.
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INTERNAL MODERATION REPORT CASS ITEMS LEARNING AREA: ______________________________________ GRADE : ___ EDUCATOR : MODERATOR : DATE : ____________________________________ ____________________________________ __________________
EDUCATOR PORTFOLIO YES 1. Is there an educator portfolio? 2. Are there clear instructions with each task and is the nature of the assessment criterion referenced? 3. Does the task address the subjects LOs and ASs as prescribed in the NCS subject policy document and the Assessment Guidelines? 4. Are the assessment instruments available : memos, rubrics, etc. and are they of an appropriate and desired standard? 5. Are CASS lists with the required totals supplied? NO COMMENTS
LEARNER PORTFOLIO YES 1. Were at least 3 portfolios moderated? 2. Of the portfolios moderated, is there a spread across the range according to the CASS mark? 3. Are there clear instructions with each task and is the nature of the assessment criterion referenced? 4. Have the assessment tools and comments been used to provide learners with meaningful feedback? NO COMMENTS
MODERATION SHEET EDUCATORS NAME: ________________________________ MODERATORS NAME: LEARNERS NAME ________________________________ MAIN LEARNING OUTCOMES ASSESSED FORM OF ASSESSMENT / TYPE OF TASK A MODERATORS ASSESSMENT B EDUCATORS ASSESSMENT C DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EDUCATORS AND MODERATORS ASSESSMENT ( B-A) +5 (10%)
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