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Northern Cape education dept does not understand ANAs: NAPTOSA─── THANDI XABA 07:52 Wed, 03 Dec 2014
Kimberley - The Northern Cape Department of Education does not understand the aim of the Annual National Assessments (ANA) written by learners in Grades 3, 6 and 9.
Louwrens Strydom, CEO of the National Professional Teacher's Organisation of South Africa (NAPTOSA) in the Free State and Northern Cape, says these assessments are a diagnostic tool to determine the successes and failures of the education system.
He however says they have now become a tool that the department uses to classify schools and teachers as underperforming and even dysfunctional.
NAPTOSA believes that ANAs should be removed altogether and replaced with a new assessment programme created by curriculum specialists.
Strydom adds the Northern Cape Department of Education uses the ANA’s as a tool to conduct whole school evaluations, which NAPTOSA finds unacceptable.
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