Citizen3.png Education dept postpones annual national assessments The Citizen, Johannesburg, 11 September 2015 The national education department on Friday announced the writing of the Annual National Assessments (ANA) has been postponed to next year. The announcement came after threats from teacher unions to boycotts the ANA - a series of tests for learners between grades one and nine to test their numeracy and literacy levels. "The three major teacher unions: SADTU [South African Democratic Teachers Union], NAPTOSA [National Professional Teachers Organisation of South Africa], and SAOU [Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysunie] have over recent weeks publicly expressed concerns about the administration of the annual national assessment," the department said in a statement. "The main concern of the teacher unions related to the frequency of the administration of ANA, its administrative demands, which did not leave enough time and room for improvement strategies to take root, before learners are re-assessed." The department met with the unions this week, agreeing that the ANA, which would have taken place next week, should be postponed to February next year. "It was agreed that the schooling environment, given the prevailing conditions and union concerns to the administration of ANA, was not conducive to the writing of this very significant test, which provides valuable information on learner performance at the national, provincial, district and school level. " "It was also agreed that the frequency of these tests need to be reviewed and therefore a task team comprising the teacher unions and the DBE [department of basic education] will be immediately constituted to support the department in the re-modelling of the ANA so that the re-designed version of National Assessment can be launched next year." From: <http://citizen.co.za/746764/education-dept-postpones-annual-national-assess ments/> http://citizen.co.za/746764/education-dept-postpones-annual-national-assessm ents/ -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
