Untitled - Umalusi

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4. Approach to moderation of question papers
Umalusi appoints external moderators who are qualified subject
specialists and experts in the field of assessment to moderate question
papers. For the 2005 SCE question papers Umalusi appointed 64
external moderators who were responsible for 66 subjects. Each of these
external moderators moderated question papers at a central venue,
where the panel of examiners was available to address issues raised by
the external moderator.
For both these approaches, external moderators used very detailed and
specific criteria set by Umalusi when moderating question papers. Criteria
are reviewed and improved yearly to ensure that they accomodate all the
aspects of the question paper pertaining to quality and standard of the
question papers.
moderators was responsible for one subject, except for two moderators
who were moderating two subjects each. The moderators moderated all
the grades (standard and higher). In cases where there are more papers
Criteria used to moderate the question papers, as used by external
moderators, covered the following aspects:
(Paper 1, 2 or 3) in a subject, we had one external moderator per paper,
except in English Second Language where we had one moderator
moderating all the three papers.
• Standard of the question papers
• Coverage of core syllabus
• Cognitive levels assessed
Umalusi used different approaches for moderating national and
assessment body question papers. For assessment body question papers
(including back-up papers), assessment bodies sent question papers to
moderators, who would then moderate and write reports to both Umalusi
and the assessment bodies. With regard to national question papers,
• Presentation of question papers
• Internal moderation of question papers
• Strengths observed from question papers
• Weaknesses observed from question papers
• Overall impression on the question papers
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