Grade 1 test riddled with silly mistakes

[schumi]

Cape Town - A Western Cape assessment test for Grade 1 pupils had so many errors that a teacher refused to hand the papers to her pupils and the department has launched an investigation.

On Wednesday, Education MEC Debbie Schäfer was studying a report into why the assessment, to determine how well Grade 1s were doing, was riddled with errors.

One teacher posted on Facebook that she had not handed it out to her pupils to complete.

The Formal Assessment Task (FAT) 1 for the fourth term was uploaded on to the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) webpage on a WCED letterhead.

The assessment considers the level at which pupils should demonstrate their achievement of learning outcomes.

The shared reading is about a boy wanting a bicycle for his birthday.

Extracts read: “Mom was afraid that he will drive a bit reckless in the streets and get knocked by a car.”; “He was anxiously waiting for his mom and dad to congratulate him with his birthday.”; “John jumped out of bed, ran pass his mom and dad straight to the garage.”

An extract from a poem, which pupils were meant to recite, reads: ”The other children rides pass me.”

From Activity 2: listening and speaking, an extract reads: “He wish he could get a bicycle.”

More at http://beta.iol.co.za/news/south-af...de-1-test-riddled-with-silly-mistakes-1937897

 

[satanboy]

Grade 1!!??

WTF?

 

[Budza]

They sound like common Afrikaans to English errors.

Absolutely inexcusable whatever the cause...

 

[Xarog]

Sadtu strikes again.

 

[DJ...]

They sound like common Afrikaans to English errors.

About to become morer and morer communist...

 

[Flanders]

Oh FFS. Get someone who can actually speak the language for crying out loud.

 

[Budza]

Oh FFS. Get someone who can actually speak the language for crying out loud.

One thing the muppets in charge DO understand, unfortunately is the lowest common denominator.

 

[Azg]

Move past the errors, those are some big words for Grade 1s.

 

[Flanders]

Move past the errors, those are some big words for Grade 1s.

It's 'pass'! Move PASS the errors!

Or in that teacher's case, she actually just passed the errors...without a single fsck given that day.

 

[DJ...]

It's the government's new subliminal marking technique...

 

[Flanders]

Before I get past off *chortle* as some sort of raging sexist, let me correct my previous post by saying that SHE/HE actually just passed the errors.

 

[AntiGanda]

Sadtu strikes again.

Isn't this a WCED error? The province is responsible.

 

[supersunbird]

Was the test composed by a Grade R learner?

 

[Leonidas]

Was the test composed by a Grade R learner?

Nope, Zuma did.

 

[AntiGanda]

Nope, Zuma did.

Did he get hold of the WC letterhead?

 

[Solarion]

A grade 1 test. You had ONE SIMPLE JOB. ONE!

 

[noxibox]

Someone misunderstood their instructions. They were asked to create a test for grade 1s, but instead had grade 1s create a test.

 

[noxibox]

Move past the errors, those are some big words for Grade 1s.

Which words are too big for grade 1s?

 

[Garson007]

Which words are too big for grade 1s?

Anxious?

Christ. Grade 1 was putting Jannie skop bal together and crying over the fact that I can't distinguish left from right.

 

[Xarog]

Isn't this a WCED error? The province is responsible.

All I know is, Sadtu seems to be hellbent against the reform of the education system in this country. And I would suspect that people inside the WCED may well also be members of Sadtu.