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CETAP News Internal staff newsletter for CETAP
November 2017
Item Review Workshop
An item review work-
shop for Academic Liter-
acy, Quantitative Litera-
cy and Mathematics was
held in Cape Town on
Friday 17 – Sunday 19
November.
Item review forms part
of the NBT test development process and is aimed at ensuring that the
NBTs are valid, reliable and fair for all participants across the higher edu-
cation sector.
Representatives from South African HE institutions and Mathematics
teachers took part in the workshop, which was held at Hotel Verde.
NBT-by-numbers
2213
315
14
+72000
Naziema Jappie attended the
GAPS Learning and Connecting
Symposium in Brazil this month.
She had this to say about it:
“The aim of the GAPS Symposium
was to bring together experts,
practitioners, activist leaders and
higher education decision makers
to link various efforts tackling the
challenge of improving and
broadening access and success in
post-secondary education; bring-
ing more inclusiveness into the
definition of academic excellence
and ensuring that all students
benefit from exposure to global
learning.
It is recognized there are different approaches and interpretations of the three key topics of access, inclusive educa-
tion and global Learning. Furthermore, contextual realities in different parts of the world clearly influence how higher
education institutions act on these issues, what arguments they use to build the case for transforming higher educa-
tion in the direction of being more inclusive, more globally attuned and more responsible the success of all learners
including those who are frequently less well-represented in higher education.”
Workshops and Conferences
Robert Prince, Sanet Steyn, Pragashni Padayachee, and Darlington Mutakwa attended the Universities South Africa
(USAf) National Benchmark Tests Consultative Workshop on the 13th of November. The objective was to share infor-
mation on student profiles and curriculum interventions, provide general information on the NBTs, and to share re-
sults of research and correlations.
The programme included an interactive session called “The NBTs and institutional practic-
es: what the NBTs convey”, in which the CETAP team presented NBT usage scenarios and
invited participants to discuss possible uses of the NBTs and outcomes.
The workshop ended with a Q & A session on the NBTs.
Robert Prince gave a talk at the USAf Education Deans’ Forum on the 10th November,
on the National Benchmark Tests data trends of prospective education students.
Staff News
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Erratum
In our October issue, it was reported that Robert Prince was co-
author of the book, Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher
Education: Access, Persistence and Retention.
He is in fact, co-author, with Rochelle Kapp, Elmi Badenhorst, Bon-
gi Bangeni, Tracy Craig, Viki Janse van Rensburg, Kate le Roux,
June Pym and Ermien van Pletzen, of a chapter in the book:
“Students’ Negotiation of Learning and Identity in Working-class
Schooling”.
Send submissions to:
by the 20th of each month.
...to the November baby:
Emlyn Balarin (23 Nov.)