School-Based Assessment in South Africa

School-based assessment (SBA) is a procedure where teachers are to mark their students’ work, and normally involves cooperation among teachers and schools to help ensure marking criteria comparability.

What do you mean by school based assessment in South Africa?

In this context, a School Based Assessment (SBA) is proposed to be conducted throughout the country to assess the Learning Outcomes of all the children at the Elementary level. The purpose of the SBA is to empower the teachers to improve the learning levels of the students.

What is the importance of a school based assessment?

School Based Assessment forms an integral part of teaching and learning, its value as a yardstick of effective quality learning and teaching is firmly recognized. Through assessment, the needs of the learner are not only diagnosed for remediation, but it also assists to improve the quality of teaching and learning.

What do school based assessments assess?

School-Based Assessment with CAPS assessment is a continuous planned process of identifying, gathering, and interpreting information about the performance of learners, using various forms of evaluation. Basically, to get marks for learners during the term and not all in one or two days.

What is SBA in education in South Africa?

SBA is the process of gathering valid and reliable information, by the teacher in the classroom, about the performance of the learner on an on-going basis against clearly defined criteria, using a variety of methods, tools, techniques and contexts.

What are the types of school based assessment?

Assessment in the National Senior Certificate comprises School-Based Assessment, Practical Assessment Tasks, language Oral Assessment for official languages and external examinations.

How do you do a school based assessment?

• Integrate teaching learning and assessment.
• No load on teacher’s documentation, reports and recording.
• Child centered and activity based pedagogy.
• Focus on competency development rather than content memorization.

 Who is responsible for school based assessment?

According to (58 of 2001, as amended in 2008. 1) School-based Assessment (SBA) comprises all forms of assessment which are conducted by the teacher at school level.

 How long does school-based assessment last?

According to (35429 of 7 June 2012), it  states that “The School-Based Assessment mark obtained by a repeat candidate in his or her last NSC examination will be valid for a period of five (5) years following the date of the first NSC examination written by the candidate”.

Why is it important to include parents in the assessment process in South Africa?

Parents play an important role on their child’s academic achievement. Also, reward plays an important role even for human. It could increase the rate of motivation to achiever a certain task. During assessment, the parents balance between being a mother and delivering the academic practices (oral questioning and revisiting previous assessment results). After the assessment, the parents praise and reward the child.