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During the marking of the 2014 National Senior Certificate (NSC) scripts, the marks obtained by each candidate were captured per question for each question paper in order to enable the WCED to provide feedback to individual schools. |
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All education institutions that write the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations through the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) are hereby provided with an analysis of the results obtained by its candidates in the 2014 NSC examinations. |
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Senior curriculum planners and curriculum advisers will be provided with similar data analyses for the province and their districts respectively so that they may devise strategies to assist teachers to improve learner performance in the more challenging aspects of the curriculum. Districts are also provided with school data per paper. |
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Importantly, this detailed analysis enables each school to identify where their learners excelled and where they struggled with the examination questions. |
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The data indicates the following in respect of individual schools: |
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The percentage difference above or below the provincial average that the school's candidates scored for each question. A positive percentage difference indicates that the school's average percentage is above the provincial average, while a negative percentage difference indicates that the school's average percentage is below the provincial average. |
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The number of candidates who attempted each question. |
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The deviation in the average percentage between what the candidates scored in the paper as a whole and the average for the province. This appears in the last column. |
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The teachers involved in each subject should discuss the data among themselves, identify strengths, weaknesses and areas of concern, and then use this information to develop a plan of action for the subject for 2015. |
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Where serious problems are identified in a subject, subject heads must contact their curriculum advisers for assistance. Teachers whose learners have achieved particular success in specific questions may be requested by curriculum advisers to share the secrets of their success with schools that have performed poorly. |
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The WCED is confident that principals, teachers and curriculum advisors will derive benefit from these examination statistics/data. This will lead to an improvement in the quality of teaching and learning in the Western Cape. |
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Principals are requested to bring the contents of this minute to the attention of subject teachers and heads of department. |
SIGNED: BK SCHREUDER
DEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL: CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT MANAGEMENT
DATE: 2015:01:01
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