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to testing content and are generally not reflective of the different
cognitive levels.
6.3 Standardisation within the assessment body
a. In Limpopo, for Afrikaans, there is no attempt being made at
6.4 Internal moderation of CASS portfolios
a. In contrast to Afrikaans portfolios from KwaZulu Natal, the IsiZulu
portfolios reflect a lack of internal moderation, despite the provincial
policies requirements that portfolios must be moderated at school,
cluster and provincial level.
provincial level to ensure a relative degree of standardisation of
assessment tasks across the assessment body. This can be gauged
from the inconsistency in the standard of assessment tasks across
schools and districts as can be seen in the following:
b. During the pre-moderation discussion held for Afrikaans in
Mpumalanga, officials acknowledged that internal moderation was in
most cases inadequate. This was confirmed in the Afrikaans
Additional Language report for Provincial Cass Moderation Grade
• In Segolola High school, a language test was set out of a total of 10
marks which was then converted to a mark out of 80, whilst learners at
Waterberg High School were required to write a full test out of 80 marks.
• Some teachers require learners to write essays on non-challenging
topics, e.g. at Tabudi Secondary School learners were required to write
on ”My skool is mooi”, whilst others provide extremely challenging
12, 2005, which stated that internal moderation of CASS was in most
cases inadequate. District moderators did not check whether the totals
for each section and the mark allocations were correct. Where
moderation is done, it is also resticted to a mere audit. No information
could be found with regard to the prescribed frequency of internal
moderation and feedback mechanisms to educators.
topics such as “Die boksies is vir skoene – nie vir mense nie”.
c. Evidence in The North West, in the learners’ History portfolios
suggest that moderation is rather cursory. There is no evidence of
remarking of learners’ work. The only evident difference between the
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