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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Educators' conceptions and practice of classroom assessment in post-apartheid South Africa - Saloshna Vandeyar

The changes in post-apartheid South Africa have been accompanied by considerable changes in the education system. The most notable include desegregation of schools, development of a National Qualifications Framework, adoption of new language policies for education, and introduction of outcomes-based curricula. However entrenched assessment practices appear to be hampering the efforts to transform school education. An analysis of the assessment practices of three Grade 4 educators in multilingual classrooms revealed that the educators were unable or unwilling to adapt their assessment practices to the changing demands of South African school education.
From: South African Journal of Education, Vol. 27 (1), pp. 101-115

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