HOW TO ASSESS THE LEARNERS

HOW TO ASSESS THE LEARNERS

Assessment involves an ongoing, planned process of identifying, gathering and criteria. This includes four steps:

• Collecting evidence of achievement; • Evaluating the achievement; • Recording of findings; • By using the information to assist the learners in their development and thereby promoting the process of learning and teaching.

Assessment must be informal (Assessment for learning) and formal (Assessment for teaching). In both cases good feedback must be given. Refer to the portfolio book for a complete list of the required assessments.

PRACTICAL ASSESSMENT TASK (PAT)

1. The purpose of the Practical Assessment Task for Agricultural Management Practices is to assess the managerial, entrepreneurial, research, marketing, operational and technical skills of the learners in the production ramifications they are exposed to. The context in which the subject is presented includes a wide range of production systems, ramifications, management approaches and ecological differences between the different regions of South Africa. 2. The PAT must make provision for a wide range of approaches and applications. PATguidelines must be provided.

GRADE 10 ASSESSMENT

You can mark the Grade 10 learners’ work OR you have the option of submitting it to Impaq to be marked. Make sure that clear evidence of portfolio work of Grade 10 exists – it may be that Umalusi requests the learners’ Grade 10 work. The PAT task is very important. Each leg of the PAT task must be completed and the necessary marks must be submitted for a Grade 10 report card at the end of the year. Without a Grade 10 report card the learners cannot apply to write the Matric examination. It is therefore very important that the learners complete all facets of the practical work and that they have the necessary evidence that they actually completed the work.