Posted on November 08, 2017
In preparation for the media release of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study 2016 results, the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria hosted the final National Steering Committee meeting for the year at the Ivory Manor...
Posted on November 08, 2017
Can information be trusted? How can we as social scientists build a case for our hypotheses using Rasch models and methodological norms? These questions were posed at the most recent Rasch PLC meeting held in August 2017 at the Research Commons on the University of Pretoria’s Groenkloof...
Posted on November 08, 2017
“Education in an era of decolonization and transformation” was the theme of the SAERA 2017 conference held at the Sun Boardwalk Hotel in Port Elizabeth from 23 – 26 October 2017. Transformation is at the forefront of many discussions in education. As indigenous knowledge systems...
Posted on November 08, 2017
The Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) hosted an international visitor from Brazil in September 2017. Prof. Fernando Tavares who coordinates a research group at the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation (CAEd) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) visited the CEA...
Posted on August 23, 2017
The Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2016 country representatives reviewed exhibits and draft international reports at the 8th National Research Coordinators Meeting in Riga, Latvia, from 18 to 23 June 2017.
Posted on August 23, 2017
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), Charles University and the Czech School Inspectorate hosted its biennial 7th IEA International Research Conference (IRC-2017) on 28–30 June 2017 at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. The goals of...
Posted on August 23, 2017
The Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) at the University of Pretoria in collaboration with the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) at Durham University in England, hosted a series of feedback meetings and workshops for the International Performance Indicators in Primary Schools...
Posted on August 23, 2017
Ms Celeste Combrinck, the Acting Director at the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) at the Faculty of Education, received an award, offered by the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at the University of Western Australia to attend the Seventh International Conference on Probabilistic...
Posted on March 08, 2017
Collaboration between 21 education researchers from South African, Mozambican and Dutch universities has culminated in the published book entitled Monitoring the Quality of Education in Schools.
Posted on October 31, 2016
“Doing research in education that makes a difference” was the theme for this year’s Faculty of Education’s Research Indaba held at the University of Pretoria’s Groenkloof campus in October this year.
Posted on October 31, 2016
The Reading Association of South Africa (RASA) held its 11 th annual conference at Claredon Primary School in Pietermaritzburg, Kwa-Zulu Natal from the 30 th of September to the 2nd of October 2016.
Posted on October 31, 2016
Ms Celeste Combrinck, of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), attended the 42nd International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) Conference in Cape Town in August 2016.
Posted on October 31, 2016
Ms Celeste Combrinck, Project Coordinator/Researcher at the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), presented at the 22nd Annual South African Psychology Congress (PsySSA) held at Emperors’ Palace, Johannesburg on the 20 th to 23 rd of September 2016.
Posted on October 31, 2016
On Monday 22 August 2016, Prof. Sarah Howie gave the opening keynote address entitled “Assessment for political accountability or towards educational quality” to an audience of several hundred delegates at the 42nd International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) Conference...
Posted on August 31, 2016
Prof Sarah Howie, Director of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA), has been appointed to the Board of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) for the term 1 January 2016 to 31 December 2020.
Posted on August 23, 2016
The Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) this year introduced the electronic version of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).
Posted on May 12, 2016
CEA staff are elected as executive committee members of the RASA.
Posted on July 21, 2015
The CEA hosted the International Association for the Evaluation of Education Achievement Conference.
Posted on March 26, 2014
Dr Surette van Staden, a senior researcher at the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) attended the Government cluster policy workshop on Bi-literacy and Multilingualism in Schools: managing learning and teaching in local and international languages
Posted on March 26, 2014
Dr Caroline Long of the Centre for Evaluation and Assessment (CEA) in the Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (SMTE) and Prof Tim Dunne from University of Cape Town presented a paper on the use of formative assessment resources for
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