Ten percent. This is the average mark that Grade 9 pupils scored for maths in this year\u2019s Annual National Assessment.<\/p>\n
When making the announcement in Diepsloot on Thursday morning, a disappointed Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic Education, said unlike the foundation phase, the senior phase was not responding to the department\u2019s interventions.<\/p>\n
The test, now in its third year, was written in September by over 7 million pupils from grades 1 to 9, with grades 7 and 8 taking part for the first time. The assessments aren\u2019t used to grade pupils but are a diagnostic tool to test maths, language and literacy skills and to determine whether they know what they were supposed to have learnt in previous grades.<\/p>\n
Last year, Grade 9 scored a 14 percent average and in 2012, the maths average was 12 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Grade 9 results show our interventions are not working. Something has to give, the system is not responding at this point,\u201d Motshekga said.<\/p>\n
She said the department would do another in-depth investigation to assess where the problems in Grade 9 were, but admitted that she was disappointed as she thought that the department was on track with the interventions.<\/p>\n
She said this was reflective of a deficit in the system, which peaks when pupils reach the senior phase.<\/p>\n
Source: IOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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