The programme is as follows:
TIME | SESSION | ACTIVITY | FACILITATOR |
8:00 | Welcome |
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8:15 | Validity Unlocked
| This session unpacks the principles behind the design of valid assessments, which accurately assess the skills and content that underpin mastery of a subject. | Mr Ashlin Pillay |
9:00 | Invalid Difficulty | This session will unpack how unintended difficulty poses a threat to the validity of assessments. | Mr Peter Ruddock |
9:45 | Understanding Leading and Lagging Indicators | This session will focus on predictive measures (leading indicators) and outcome measures (lagging indicators), identifying key metrics that drive academic excellence. | Dr Helen Sidiropoulos |
10:30 | Empowering Decision-Making through Data | This session will focus on how strategically capturing and analysing learner data can empower educators to make data driven decisions that foster continuous improvement in the classroom. | Mr Rudolph Henning |
11:15 |
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11:30 | Empowering Equity: Fairness in Assessment
| This session focuses on setting assessments that allow all learners equitable opportunities to demonstrate their learning. | Ms Robyn Mowatt |
12:15 | Reliability: The Consistency Code | This session will discuss consistency by individual markers and between multiple markers and will offer strategies for improving the reliability of assessments. | Ms Zimbili Langa |
13:00 | Nuts and Bolts | This session looks at the technicalities involved in constructing an assessment: use of fonts, clarity of images, sourcing and editing of images and the use of AI to generate images. | Ms Michéle Botha |
13:45 | Q and A and Evaluation | ||
14:00 | Close |
Teachers may register for this workshop by completing the online registration form at: