The South African Health Care System L4

Umalusi; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 300,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading educational assessment body is seeking an Assessment Moderator to enhance the integrity and quality of assessment processes. The successful candidate will be tasked with moderating question papers and internal assessments, ensuring adherence to policy guidelines, and providing insightful feedback for improvement. This role is ideal for professionals with a strong educational background and relevant moderation experience, looking to contribute to quality education standards.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree in education or a similar field required.
• Experience in assessment moderation or related tasks is necessary.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills required.

Responsibilities

• Moderate question papers and internal assessments.
• Provide feedback on assessment standards and quality.
• Ensure compliance with policy and quality standards.

Skills

Moderation Techniques

Assessment Quality Control

Feedback Provision

Education

Degree in Education or a related field

Job description

• Moderate question papers, internal continuous assessment tasks (ICASS), integrated summative assessment Tasks (ISAT), contribute to the finalisation of marking guidelines, verify marking of answer scripts and attend to the marking concession requests;
• Ensure that setting and internal moderation processes of question papers and ISATs are fair, reliable and valid;
• Ensure that question papers, ISATs, internal assessments and marking are of the required standard – in line with policy and subject assessment guidelines (SAGs);
• Ensure that ISATs and ICASS are implemented effectively and efficiently;
• Provide feedback and qualitative reports to Umalusi and the assessment body / sites on the implementation of the ICASS and ISAT;
• Ensure that the Marking guidelines and assessment tools are of the required standard;
• Submit reports to Umalusi on the quality of question papers, marking, integrated summative assessment tasks and internal assessment;
• Provide feedback on the quality of the assessment system and make recommendations on how the assessment system can be improved; and
• To give support to examiners, markers, internal moderators and educators.