NSC Examinations 2023 : Diagnostic Report Book 3
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2024-01-18
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Department of Basic Education, Pretoria, South Africa
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The 2023 Diagnostic Report explores in detail the observations in learner performance, and it serves as a supporting resource for teaching and learning in the 10 high enrolment subjects, Afrikaans First Additional Language, English First Additional Language, the 12 official home languages, the technologies, technical subjects and Engineering Graphics and Design. This report needs to be used in conjunction with the 2021 and 2022 diagnostic reports. These reports illuminate subject didactic principles and content matter that can be used effectively in the classroom in 2024. Like previous reports, this report presents an evaluation of learner performance in the selected subjects and home languages by highlighting the areas of weakness in each of the subjects/languages and articulating the remedial measures to be adopted at school level to improve performance in these subjects/languages. The findings and recommendations are based on qualitative data taken from the subject reports compiled by the chief markers, internal moderators and subject specialists post the marking process. In the 10 key subjects, quantitative data was also gathered from the analysis of 100 scripts per paper, per subject, randomly selected from each province. As a result, this National Diagnostic Report on Learner Performance provides teachers, subject advisors, curriculum planners and curriculum implementers with a picture of learner performance in each of the key subjects. The Diagnostic Report in each subject/language, commences by presenting comparative data on the performance trends observed over a five-year period in the subject/language. In the 10 key subjects, it also provides an overall performance of candidates per question, in the respective question papers for each subject. Common errors, misinterpretations and misconceptions identified during marking and suggestions for improvement are also provided. The poor quality of answers provided by some candidates in certain subjects continues to suggest gaps in the scope of content coverage, teaching methodology and the content knowledge of some of our teachers.
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National Senior Certificate, South Africa, Examinations, Diagnostic report