Untitled - Umalusi

Foreword
Umalusi has approved the release of all the results of this year’s Senior
Certificate assessments as well as the assessments of the General
Education and Training Certificate for adults and vocational education
and training. The Minister of Education will be informed of this decision.
The examination system is massive. There has been a significant increase
in the number of candidates taking examinations across the three sectors.
Assessment bodies administer this system very smoothly and it has
reached an admirable level of maturity. There was open disclosure to
Umalusi of various relatively minor irregularities which were reported on
At its meeting this morning, the executive committee of Umalusi’s Council
concluded, from reports submitted by its own moderators and monitors as
well as those of the national and provincial departments of education and
a daily basis. Umalusi was vigilant in following up these wrongdoings
and can report that assessment bodies have, to the best of our
knowledge, handled them efficiently and in line with policy.
the two independent assessment bodies, that the examinations in all three
sectors were conducted in line with policy and regulations and that the
results were reliable, valid, fair and credible.
This has been a year of review and improvement of Umalusi’s quality
assurance processes. A comprehensive evaluation of all assessment
bodies was conducted. Together with the results of the research into the
Umalusi is the quality assuror in the general and further education and
training bands of the national qualifications framework. It applies various
quality assurance methods such as:
• moderation of question papers;
• monitoring of the conduct of examinations;
standard of Senior Certificate examinations and the comparability of
examinations in vocational education and training with the Senior
Certificate, Umalusi was able to interrogate, revise and improve all its
quality assurance of assessment processes and procedures. The Council
is also seriously engaged with the issue of standards in the examinations.
• moderation of marking of scripts (centralised and on-site);
• moderation of continuous assessment (CASS); and
• standardisation of the marks in accordance with agreed statistical and
educational principles.
This year, as a result of last year’s research, Umalusi paid particular
attention to the cognitive challenge of question papers resulting in a
higher level of papers for 2005. The examination has become less
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