NBT Logistics

According to our data on SurveyMonkey,

we’ve had more than 23000 registrations

so far, with the majority coming from

Gauteng, followed by the Western Cape

and Kwa-Zulu Natal.

We’re succeeding in providing venues in

all areas, as the majority of responses to

the question of how long it would take

writers to get to their test venue has

been 0-1 hour.

this issue

NBT Logistics P.1 Research P.2

Media and Comms P.2 Workshops & Conferences P.2

Visits P.3 Just for Fun P.3

Open Day, 2016

CETAP News Internal staff newsletter for CETAP

July 2016

Research

Kabelo Sebolai had an article published in the journal, Language Matters, in May of this year. The

title is: Distinguishing between English proficiency and academic literacy in English and it appears in

volume 47, issue 1 of the journal.

Workshops & Conferences

Twitter followers

Institutional reports distrib-

uted this year

Writers so far this year

NBT-by-numbers

Facebook followers

1410

177

9

+23000

Media and Communications An email was sent out to more than 3000 high schools in February this year,

alerting educators to the upcoming cycle of NBTs. Two follow-up emails have

since been sent, one informing them about an article directed at educators

and published on Stoogle, and another to clarify our position on NBT prepa-

ration classes and materials.

As part of our strategy to also reach schools that do not have access to

email or the internet, over 450 Zulu NBT brochures were distributed to

Quintile 1 and 2 schools in KwaZulu-Natal.

As part of a Department of Higher Education and

Training initiative, we were invited to participate in

interviews about the NBT on SABC radio. Janine Dun-

lop was interviewed by Lesedi FM on the 28th of April at 16h15.

On the 19th July, CETAP held a collaborative Teaching and Learning Workshop for the Department of Applied Science at the CPUT Wellington campus. The workshop focussed on the Agricultural Science Programme at CPUT but dealt with many issues that are generic to the Applied Science Department. It was hugely successful and sparked some lively debate around how the NBT testing of the student intake provided invaluable information, allowing appropriate and targeted responses in terms of addi-tional academic support and placement of students in Extended Curriculum programmes. The workshop served to address some of the challenges faced by CPUT which were highlighted by the analysis pre-sented by Robert Prince and Kabelo Sebolai. The success of the workshop served to reinvigorate CPUT’s use of the NBT and further cemented the close relationship between our two Universities. Naziema Jappie presented a paper at the International Testing Commission Conference in Vancouver, Canada:

The conference was attended by delegates from all over the world, giving insights and best practices about assess-

ments and testing in their country. There were informative sessions on the advancement of psychometric modelling,

technological developments and testing for employment and credentialing.

Prof Cheryl Foxcroft (NMMU) &

Naziema Jappie (UCT) at the ITC

conference in Vancouver

Staff News

Centre for Educational Testing for Access

and Placement

Level 4, Hoerikwaggo Building

University of Cape Town

www.cetap.uct.ac.za

Telephone: +27 (0)21 650 5462

Fax: +27 (0)21 650 5466

...to the June babies,

Jenny Dantu: 17 June

Shaunda Swarts: 29 June

Visits

Naziema Jappie and Emlyn Balarin recently completed a successful visit to the University of Venda to discuss the future use of the NBT for admissions and placement.

They had a very productive meeting with the UniVen Registrar, Prof. Edward Nesamvuni and his team, which had the outcome of CETAP being invited to participate in a review workshop on their Admis-sions and Placement Policy. This should pave the way for CETAP to introduce a pilot programme demonstrating the utility of NBT testing for first time applicants to UniVen and hopefully lead to a more comprehensive use of NBTs in the future at the university.

Naziema Jappie recently visited Education Testing Services (ETS) in Princeton. New Jersey,

USA:

“ETS is a non-profit organization employing approximately 4000 workers across the United

States. It provides assessments worldwide, from kindergarten to Higher Education, based on

rigorous research. In addition to assessments, they have customized training at the ETS

Global Institute for test developers, research personnel, managers, psychometricians and

many others. I was very impressed with the level and standards of the training sessions:

quite intense and interactive. “

Just for Fun

Naziema and Prof. Nesamvuni

Send submissions to:

janine.dunlop@uct.ac.za

by the 20th of each month.