Report on the National Senior Certificate Examination Results 2010.

REPORT ON THE NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION RESULTS • 2010
4.2.4 Provincial moderation
a Provincial moderation panel is responsible and accountable for moderation at this level . Provincial moderators
conduct moderation of a selected sample of learner evidence from across all schools and moderation is
normally conducted twice a year . moderation at this level focuses on compliance with national policy . at this
level of moderation, much attention is paid to the calculation of marks and conversion and adjustment of
marks . there is, however, no proper standardization of the overall work of the learner and this level is in effect
not different from the district and cluster moderation .
the dbE acknowledges that moderation of sba is an area that has not been given much attention over the
past few years and therefore in 2011 and subsequent years, the DBE will devote more of its resources, to
improving sba moderation in the provinces .
4.3 Moderation of Life Orientation
Life Orientation is one of the twenty nine (29) subjects of the National Curriculum Statement which was
introduced in Grade 10 in 2006, Grade 11 in 2007 and Grade 12 in 2008. It is one of the four fundamental
subjects within the seven subject package that learners must offer to qualify for the National Senior Certificate
(NSC). Life Orientation is the only subject that is internally assessed for promotion and certification purposes.
Since Life Orientation is internally assessed, an external moderation process was necessary in order to verify
learners’ performance and to add credibility to the assessment of the subject. The external moderation of Life
Orientation took place from 18 – 25 August 2010. Ten moderators were deployed to the provinces to moderate
assessment tasks and the learner evidence . the national moderation team also collected samples of good
practice .
the national moderation team focused on 10 schools per province where formal tasks were selected from the
different districts. Moderators evaluated the assessment tasks designed by the teachers and re-marked the
learner evidence. Tasks were primarily selected from peri-urban and rural schools.
Based on the monitoring and moderation processes undertaken by the DBE, it can be confirmed that there is
an improvement in the administration of the life orientation assessment tasks . the quality of the assessment
tasks is steadily improving and PEds have conducted some form of moderation at the different levels . the
DBE will continue to focus on the moderation of Life Orientation in 2011.
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