Examinations Planning: Monitoring, Evaluation and Support

TVET College Strategic and Operational PlanningDAY 1

CONTEXT

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE• To provide technical and vocational educational and

training services by increasing quality and success in terms of the academic achievement of students

MTSF• Indicator: Percentage of college exam centres conducting

national examinations and assessments in compliance with national policy

• Target: 100% • Reporting timeframe: Annually

HOW TO ACHIEVE 100% COMPLIANCE

• DHET Management Plans

• Monitoring, evaluation and support

• Examinations and Assessment structure

DHET Management Plans

• Provides final outputs and timeframes per examination cycle

• Expand each departmental output into an examinations action plan– Add actions that will lead to achievement per

output– Insert name of responsible college official– Insert timeframes per action

Monitoring, evaluation and support

• Departmental guidelines• Standard operating procedures• Examinations action plan• Examinations officers

Examinations and Assessment structure

– Data integrity– Compliance monitoring– Quality assurance ICASS standards (moderation)– Irregularities management– Security– Plans and control measures– Standard operating procedures

CONCLUSION

• Quality and integrity with which an institution conducts examinations and assessment practices impacts on the credibility of a qualifications

• Cannot leave the management, conduct and administration to chance

A NOTE ON CERTIFICATION

College

NC(V) Level 2 NC(V) Level 3 NC(V) Level 4

Number

Entered

Number wrote

Number complete

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Certification rate

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Number

Entered

Number wrote

Number complete

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Certification rate (%)

Number

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Number wrote

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pleted

Certification

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CERTIFICATION (cont.)DEFINTIONS-Note 1: The number of students who ENTERED, WROTE and COMPLETED included only those who were eligible to complete qualifications (part or full) during the 2013 academic year.Note 2: “Number Entered” refers to the number of students who registered for the relevant examinations in 2013 and were eligible to complete the relevant qualifications during the 2013 academic year. This number excludes students who registered to write individual subjects but who were not eligible to complete the relevant qualifications in 2013.Note 3: “Number Wrote” refers to the number of students who wrote the relevant examinations in 2013 and were eligible to complete the relevant qualifications during the 2013 academic year. This number excludes students who wrote individual subjects but who were not eligible to complete the relevant qualifications in 2013.Note 4: “Number Completed” refers to the number of students who were eligible to complete and successfully completed the relevant qualifications in the 2013 academic year. This number excludes students who may have passed individual subjects but were not eligible to complete the relevant qualifications in 2013.Note 5: “Certification rate” refers to the number of students who successfully completed qualifications in the 2013 academic year, expressed as a percentage of the number of candidates who were eligible to complete qualifications and wrote the examinations (the latter is defined above) in 2013.Note 6: Eligible to complete a qualification is not determined by the number of subjects offered in an exam cycle during the 2013 year, but by whether through writing subjects during any of the exam cycles conducted in 2013 a candidate would have been deemed to have completed the qualification if s/he had made up the quota of subjects required for the qualification in an exam cycle in 2013. For example, a candidate who wrote Level 2 in 2012 and failed only Mathematics Level 2 in the November exams would be eligible for certification on Level 2 in 2013 when writing Mathematics Level 2 in the November 2013 exams despite the fact that s/he did not offer all 7 Level 2 subjects in 2013. This note still needs some work.

CERTIFICATION (cont.)

CANDIDATE

201311 201406 201411

A 4 3 1 1

B 2 2 2 2

C 4 3 1 1

D 4 3

E 4 1 3 2

F 2 1

REPORT 190/1 BUSINESS STUDIES – N6