A two-pronged focus on learning outcomes. Long-term planning in basic education must focus on increasing the percentage of learners who have achieved the minimum set of competencies for their grade. However, it must also focus on improving the performance of every learner, and increasing the number of learners, particularly those from historically disadvantaged backgrounds, who excel.
(two indicators, one for the minimum each learning area).
Better assessment practices in schools. Anecdotal evidence from ANA suggests the programme has allowed teachers to become more aware of how the outcomes expressed in the curriculum statements should be assessed. The past practice of allowing schools to design assessments largely on their own has clearly not been optimal. An external evaluation of the impact of ANA thus far is about to commence and this will provide a clearer idea of how ANA can be used to strengthen good assessment practices, and hence better learning, in schools.
languages of Grade ~ obtained in SACMEQ.