CIMAP membership information pack 2012

1. The Chartered Institute for Management of
Assessment Practice (CIMAP)
CIMAP
CIMAP Membership Introduction Pack
CIMAP VISION:
To promote the highest standards of professionalism, quality, competence and integrity in Assessment,
Moderation, and ETD Practice.

2. Thank you for becoming a member of CIMAP!
Message from the Chairperson: D. E Damons  Professional profile match to queries from vetted
(CEA) U.K. organisations including training providers with the consent
of members;
The Chartered Institute for  A Channel for fostering a culture of Lifelong Learning by
awarding professional designations;
Assessment Practice (CIMAP) is
 A dedicated website where members can manage their
appreciative of your efforts to
own professional development and network with other
professionalise the assessment
ETD Practitioners;
practice industry. We have
reached the proverbial tipping CIMAP is a professional body that is dedicated to supporting
point that dictates the need to the needs of everyone involved in assessment, moderation,
organise ourselves into a facilitation, and ETD Practice. CIMAP is focused on creating a
coherent representative body. voice for these critical players in education, training, and
development field in South Africa.
CIMAP strives to ensure that professional standards are
maintained and that the advancement of ETD Practitioners and CIMAP commits to maintaining standards of best practice as
private providers are the central theme of our efforts. for the professionalisation of assessors, moderators, and ETD
Practitioners in South Africa. CIMAP offers a professional
CIMAP seeks to explore fair and transparent practices that recognition pathway, Code of Professional Conduct and the
ensure maximum benefit to practitioners by creating a credible management of the Continuing Professional Development
and respected professional framework, which has (CPD) programmes.
accountability and competence as its central theme.
Our board members and regional committee members have CIMAP further seeks to:
invested their time and personal resources to establish a  Ensure the highest possible standards of excellence;
professional body for the benefit of the entire community of  Achieve and sustain self-regulation in the industry;
expert practitioners. CIMAP values our vision, mission and values.  Promote equitable contracting regimes;
 Provide the framework for training, certification,
CIMAP Mission - To promote Quality Education and Training competence and recruitment; and to
practice through voluntary self-regulation while assisting our  Support and sustain the industry;
members to achieve success through the provision of relevant  Address industry transformation;
expertise, educational opportunities, business resources and  Resolve industry issues; and
social & business networking opportunities. CIMAP values  Promote co-operation across the industries.
inculcate - Integrity, Ethics, Accountability, Credibility, and
Discipline. Possibly the greatest challenge in this vast educational
landscape is to unify a group of professionals that are engaged
It is easy to be a critic, sitting ideally by whilst others resolve at different levels, with different elements of the framework
industry challenges. CIMAP realises that it is essential to and across different sectors. This is also the very reason for
formulate a coherent integrated strategy to face the challenges creating a professional body that can take up this role and
of private providers and ETD practitioners. bear the responsibilities involved in driving the professional
behaviour of members to create credibility in industry.
CIMAP service offering:
 Setting and maintaining a professional standard through high Leonardo da Vinci in his quote below reminds us that it is
levels of involvement with the community of expert practice; those individuals that actually did something in life that will be
 A Channel for CPD activities , events, seminars and counted. “It had long since come to my attention that people
workshops hosted by approved training providers to assist of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to
members to keep their professional knowledge current; them. They went out and happened to things“.
 Regular communication with individual members via the
CIMAP website, electronic mail and other social networks; Yours in assessment excellence!
 Formulation of a personal development plan & verified skills
passport; Deonita Damons (MSc, FCIEA, CEA U.K)
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3. 1
Benefits of CIMAP Membership CIMAP Board Members
CIMAP promotes improvements in quality, transparency, and CIMAP Board Members came together as an industry
technical standards through the publication of guidance and interest group. The initial engagement was to discuss
information notes, codes of practice, and by other appropriate current challenges and the lack of formal representation
means. and consolidated submissions regarding legislative
amendments.
Among the benefits of membership are:
 Membership skills passport - based on members’ Members of the interest group agreed to establish an
cumulative global experience; industry professional body that would lobby relentlessly for
 Regular updates, with opportunities for input into the the interests of our members.
development process;
 Regular newsletters, briefing notes on technical issues, Members have volunteered their time and financial
regulatory developments and appropriate events; resources for the benefit of all professional practitioners
 Access to a secure website, with beneficial downloads; and providers.
 The site also includes discussion forums, facilitating Regional structures will become the lobby groups, as
communication between members and progressing the
national position papers are prepared on behalf of CIMAP.
Association’s overall work programme;
 Quarterly regional forums to tackle local issues; Structure and Activities
 Seminars and workshops on numerous topics of interest;
 ‘Single voice’ lobbying on regulatory matters, with client The CIMAP Management Committee, with direction and
organisations and representation with other related support provided by CIMAP Board representatives, leads
bodies; CIMAP.
 A platform to report unscrupulous and unprofessional
behaviour from providers, assessors, moderators and
other bodies;
CIMAP Board Members
 CIMAPs work programme is set out on our extensive
website at www.cimap.co.za.  Chairperson: Ms. D. E Damons MSc; (FCIEA U.K)
 Vice-Chairperson: Prof. M. C. Mehl,
Dissemination of Member Profiles
 Prof. W. Goosen, (FCIEA U.K) (Convener Strategic
CIMAP values the importance member privacy. CIMAP will not Alliances)
compromise credibility of our members or distribute their
 Mr. T. Tshabalala (Convener: SMME Development);
personal information without their consent.
 Dr. W. Guest-Mouton (Convener: Provider Forum);
Members may elect to have their personal profiles shared with
providers and employers will be reflected in the member  Dr. M. Serfontein, (FCIEA U.K) (Convener: Professional
section of the CIMAP website. Bodies and Associations);
 Mrs. T. Moshoeshoe: (Convener Transformation)
An updated list of constituency status will be provided to
verified organisations on request and with your consent as set  Dr. K. Deller (Convener: CPD activities);
out in the membership application form.
 Ms. R. Pillay (M.Ed.) (Convener: Ethics and
Please note that CIMAP is a professional body that ascribes to Accountability);
excellent professional standards.
 Dr. L. Meyer, (FCIEA U.K); (Convener: Designations,
Membership and International Relations);
Please be vigilant when making your personal information
available to individuals that have no affiliation to the  Mr. P. Mathebula (MA); (Convener: Statutory Bodies);
professional body.
 Ms. A. Roode B.Comm. (Hons) (Convener – Quality
Standards)
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4. Message from the Vice-Chairperson: We have in place a government that spends an inordinate
amount of its budget on education.
Prof. M. Mehl,
Additionally it has signaled very clearly that education is a
WHAT HOPE FOR OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM? major priority of government. From the didactic side is the
fact that we now know more about how the brain works and
how proficiency and competence develops in any area of
human endeavour, than at any time in human history. In the
last 20 years we have learnt 95% of what we today know of
the human brain.
Recent books on the subject propose a very seductive
message: every human is born with unimaginable ability and
capacity. We are capable of achieving anything we want if
we go about it properly.
The statistics are dismal. In January 2000, around 1.2 million
children enrolled in Grade 1 full of hope of a bright future. 12 This does not mean that the opportunity to achieve is the
years later in 2011, some 50 % of them only write the same for everybody – obviously, it is not – but rather that we
matriculation examination. Around 50% of those who write are all born with stupendous potential. Some titles that
do mathematics, not mathematics literacy – generally illustrate this by drawing on recent research include:
regarded as a dead-end subject.
 The genius in all of us: David Shenk
Of those who write mathematics, around 30% only achieve  The Talent Code: Daniel Coyle
more than 40% of the marks while just 12% of them get more  Talent is Overrated Geoff Colvin
than 50% - around 36000 in all. So, of the 1.2 million who  Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
started 12 years ago, just 3% of them pass mathematics with  The Myth of Ability John Mighton
more than 50% of the final mark.
to indicate but a few.
That this is a disaster is obvious. Its impact plays out further The challenge, of course, is to translate this research into
up the line when we compare the number of engineers our reality in the lives of every individual. Few people get
universities produce in comparison, per capita to a country anywhere near to realizing this potential and, in fact, the
like India, or indeed any of the rapidly emerging economies. majority of people in all likelihood, do not even believe it!
While we need not lionize mathematics, it is a fairly good How can this be changed?
gold standard for some measure of quality in education
provision. While everybody can read the research, some of the ideas we
all hold about talent, intelligence, genetic endowment and
And in truth we seem to constantly be going in the opposite creativity of individuals are so deeply entrenched, that mere
direction. The pass mark at school level is now 30%. Imagine reading is unlikely to change it.
that! A learner can be blissfully incompetent in 70% of a
subject and can still be deemed competent enough to “Pass”. We all have the experience of schooling with its inherent
intellectual hierarchy that firmly embeds the idea that “some
I notice in a recent copy of the QCTO Newsletter that the (few) have it but many do not”. It is surprising how many
issue of Fundamental learning – mathematics and people carry this measure of “relative cleverness” with them
communication – in SAQA qualifications (as minimalist as through their life.
these were in the first place) has been “refined” and a part
qualification – “Foundational Learning Competency” – is now Very few people regard themselves as capable of genius in
interposed. any field will have begun.
Why do we always keep lowering the bar instead of raising it We have a unique opportunity in South Africa to do this on a
and developing the methodologies that enable? national scale. The advent of CIMAP is an important
contributor to the effort at re-conceptualization and renewal
The irony of the situation in South Africa is that we are now of our prevailing system of education.
better equipped than at any time in our history to bring
about dramatic improvements in the situation.
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5. The centrality of dynamic assessment, carried out within a Message from Dr. W. Guest-Mouton
framework of intensive, sustained and knowledgeable
endeavour focused on improving not only the capabilities of (Convener – Provider Forum);
the individual, but of the nation as a whole, should not be
Registered DHET FET Provider Forum
under-estimated.
The Chartered Institute for the Management of
To change individual perceptions, people need to experience Assessment Practice (CIMAP) is committed to taking the
talent development in their own case. This means that lead in the process of professionalisation of the sector.
individuals need to be enabled to do something, which they
deemed impossible for themselves. However, not only Stakeholders established CIMAP during 2011 and
does each individual need to be enabled, he/she must practitioners, including DHET registered FET providers,
understand the mechanism used that made it possible. So assessors and moderators now have a platform to
the methodology for talent development must be made articulate collective needs in a democratic structure.
explicit so that it never appears to be some magic available Our immediate priorities are:
only to a few.
• Providing professional membership for practitioners
The research is unanimous in identifying “Deliberate and stakeholders, including assessors, moderators,
continuous assessment with immediate feedback that and DHET registered FET providers (corporate
enables persons to “try-fail-try again” with success at ever membership). (Accredited providers will be eligible
increasing levels of competence in fields as diverse as to join CIMAP if they have proof of registration with
mathematics, sport, music, art etc. Even within a much DHET as corporate members), (providers in the
shorter timeframe than years individuals start seeing phases of their registration process as corporate
significant indicators of improvement in their competence affiliate members).
levels. • Constructively addressing the challenges facing
private providers operating within the SETA ETQA
If this process can be initiated in areas in which the environment. These challenges include protracted
individual has always struggled, then the enabling process payment complications, securing programme
approval and external moderation dates from
Professor M C Mehl ETQAs, ineffective communication channels etc.
10 April 2012
• The imperative need to strengthen the formal
relationships with the regulators, industry
professional bodies, and collective and
representative bodies must be lobbied
immediately.
CIMAP Annual Industry ETD Awards;
We must embrace the opportunity to stand together as
Training Providers may apply for CIMAP blue, bronze, silver, professionals and participate as active members for our
gold and platinum status awards. collective sustainability!
A rigorous validation process is applied. The award
categories include: Please send all provider input on green papers and
regulatory policy frameworks affecting our industry to Dr
 CIMAP top 50 Training Provider Awards; Wilma Guest-Mouton wilmas@lantic.net
 Assessor and Moderation Awards;
 Annual ETD Practitioner Awards.
LIST OF DHET FET COLLEGES: We can no longer afford to sit idly by –
http://www.dhet.gov.za/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Fx04Bi
vUySM%3d&tabid=36 hoping that someone will look after our
interests!
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6. Message from Dr. L Meyer Members will be required to attend at least three CPD activities
per annum to retain designations. The Professional Body will
(Convener Designations, Membership and provide a register of approved providers and activities. It will be
International Relations) up to individual members to select their own activities in
relation to their personal development path.
'Every reform was once private opinion.'
Ralph Waldo Emerson All members that are constituently registered Assessors and
Moderators may progress to the Practitioner level on
CIMAP membership and designations are an important application once they have attended three CPD activities.
differentiator when engaging the services of an ETD
Modules offered by the Chartered Institute of Assessment
Practitioner. Organisations making use of Assessors,
Practice U.K are very specific and will allow members to
Moderator and ETD Practitioners will have a credible level
progress to different status levels on the successful completion
of assurance in relation to individual’s capacity,
of modules by submitting a Portfolio of Evidence.
qualifications and experience.
Most individuals that complete Assessor, Moderator or Qualifications and experience are central to the awarding of
ETD Practice training are not provided with adequate professional designations. Applicants will be expected to
mentoring and support. Said individuals are placed in a prepare a portfolio and may be requested to meet with
members from the designation committee to present reflexive
untenable position of attending training for a week, and
competence.
then being expected to participate in a complex
environment with limited support. CIMAP values credibility Membership Designations
in assessment, and stands by our value proposition that
confirms quality in assessment, moderation and ETD Members may use the following acronyms behind their names
practice. once the relevant CIMAP membership committee has
CIMAP Membership is available to: endorsed their applications in writing:
1. Student members
 Student Member - Open to anyone with an interest in
2. Constituent Assessors
assessment.
3. Constituent Moderators
 Affiliate Assessor - Affiliate Membership is open to
4. ETD Practitioners
anyone with an interest in assessment, and confirmation
5. Corporate Membership
of achievement of the national assessor standard
6. Private FET and HET Training Providers
(ACIMAP).
 Practitioner Assessor - 1-3 years' experience in
Membership Designations
educational assessment, and must have achieved a
1. Affiliate Members
National Diploma (NQF 5) (PCIMAP).
2. Practitioner
 Fellow Assessor - Fellowship is available to the most
3. Fellow
experienced and expert practitioners in educational
4. Chartered Assessor
assessment and a NQF 6 level qualification (FCIMAP).
5. Master Assessor – Top Award
 Chartered Assessor (CCIMAP). Master’s degree and five
years of educational assessment experience.
Membership Articulation Path
 Master Assessor (MCIMAP). Doctoral degree and
extensive assessment and moderation experience.
Affiliate
Assessor Applying for evaluated membership designations:
Applications for membership status reassignment will be
Master accepted by CIMAP. Please apply on the CIMAP website and
Practitioner
Assessor supply supporting documentation to admin@cimap.co.za !
Chartered ‘Does anybody really think that they did not get what they
Fellow had because they did not have the talent, the strength, the
Assessor
endurance, or the commitment?’
Nelson Mandela
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7. 1
CIMAP Professional
Designation Progression
‘Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world’.
Nelson Mandela
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8. THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE FOR The CPD website allows you to analyse your own skills, to
analyse the skills of those members of the team with which you
EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT (U.K) work and to look for advice and guidance to support those
specific skills or to improve them.
CIMAP has a working relationship with the Chartered
Institute for Educational Assessment U.K. The CIEA website is the most comprehensive source of
educational assessment information available online. Here you
The Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors is a can search through over 8,000 periodicals, articles, research
professional body dedicated to supporting the needs of reports and other documents about educational assessment
everyone involved in educational assessment. from all over the world.
CIEA members include everyone involved in assessment, from Members can access the full range of information by logging
senior examiners, moderators and markers to individuals with into the member's area in the box on the top right of the
an interest in or responsibility for assessment in primary screen. Non-members and visitors to the site will be able to
schools, secondary schools, colleges, universities, training view abstracts of articles and journals only.
centers and other educational organisations.
The CIEA campaigns on behalf of members are designed to
Membership of the Chartered Institute of Educational provide a voice for the assessment community and raise the
Assessors will cement your position as a member of the profile and relevance of effective educational assessment, as
assessment community, providing you with access to a well as the contribution it makes to society.
network of likeminded professionals as well as the latest
thinking in educational assessment and a range of exclusive Through the campaigns, the CIEA aim to engage with a variety
products and support services. of leading stakeholders, including the education community,
government, the media and the public.
"It is the Institute's ambition to confer recognised status on
its best practitioners. The integrity of the examining process The CIEA has developed a matrix, or framework of
and the credibility of the results it produces depend upon the competencies, known as the Professional Framework, based on
often unrecognized and underestimated skills of examiners. It the current activities performed by educational assessors. This
is timely to recognise, help develop, and make official the Professional Framework will help to inform our thinking of the
contribution they make to the educational life of this types of courses and support that educational assessors require
country." - Dr Julian Pattison, Deputy Head, Wolverhampton in order to fulfill their role more effectively.
Grammar School
Members may access a number of educational routes in
assessment including:
CIMAP Members qualify for the following discounts from  CIEA Post Graduate Diploma in Educational
mid June 2012: Assessment could be for you.
http://www.ciea.org.uk/training_and_qualifications/p
Associate: R 120.00 per year ostgraduate_diploma.aspx
Member: R 145.00 per year  Master’s Degree in assessment. The Professional
Fellow: R 280.00 per year (Must meet requirements) Master's Programme fees vary according to the
academic year and status of the applicant.
Normal fees directly paid to the CIEA are:
The first step in formulating the relationship between the CIEA
Associate: £25.00 per year and CIMAP was for a selected group of Assessors to complete
Member: £45.00 per year the Chartered Assessor Training. Candidate CEAs had to submit
Fellow: £80.00 per year a Portfolio of Evidence over a twelve-month period. Five South
African candidates were awarded the converted CEA status
CIEA Continuing Professional Development (CPD) related after their PoEs were assessed as compliant.
tools and resources are extensive and provide an in-depth
view of the skills and competencies associated with the The CIEA and CIMAP will be presenting a number of
Professional Framework. interventions in South Africa for CIMAP members.
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9. Message from Dr. Karen Deller Message from Mr. Tsidiso Tshabalala
Convener on CPD Activities (Convener SMME Development) & Dr. L. Meyer
The basic premise of Continuing Professional Development Entering the market place as a new provider does not
(CPD) is that professionals have to make a commitment to mean you are a “fly by night”. Without proper support
continually update their skills and personal and professional structures, and a coherent structure for engagement and
competence. CPD is most critical in professions that face evolution, the ETD system is geared to set individuals and
constant change and have a huge impact on the well-being of SMME organisations up for failure.
others.
Providers and ETD Practitioners must actively sculpt their
Part of the CIMAP philosophy is that assessors and future. Individuals and organisations entering the private
moderators are the backbone of the skills revolution. We provision space have very different needs than providers
literally make the difference between a successful and and practitioners that have been working in the system for
meaningful skills development initiative that encourages a number of years. Transformation, BBBEE opportunities
lifelong learning and a weak and demotivating one. The and development agendas must be supported in a
starting point of the typical three day assessor course is coherent and structurally defined manner, as we drive the
simply not enough to create sufficient technical competence agenda of change.
to make informed decisions about a learner’s level of
competence. Providers in the FET space that have a record of
accomplishment of excellent assessment and provision
Members will be required to attend at least three CPD practice must be afforded a level of trust and the ability to
activities per annum to retain their CIMAP designations. progress as is evident in the HET sector.
Potential CPD providers will be required to submit
programmes to the CIMAP CPD board for inclusion onto the Peer review mechanisms are a global norm, and well
list approved developmental opportunities. In addition, developed in the SA HET sector. A cautious aversion is
formal higher education qualifications will also be considered however evident in the FET sector, as many providers that
where their content is deemed by the CPD board to offer lack maturity are not aware of the benefits of sharing best
continuing professional development for assessors or practice mechanisms with peers.
moderators.
An inadequate mentoring system exists to ensure that
All members that are constituently registered Assessors and providers and assessors can be supported in the best
Moderators may progress to the Practitioner level on possible way, and within the realm of their respective
application, once they have attended at least three CPD requirements.
activities.
CIMAP will play an active role in ensuring that different
The CIMAP board plans to keep the CPD system simple and as categories of members and organisations affiliated to us
inexpensive as possible, while retaining the absolute need to are supported in the best possible way. CIMAP will actively
ensure that all assessors and moderators who are members seek to engage with ETQA’s, SAQA, the QCTO and other
diligently spend time enhancing their professional skills so relevant statutory and regulatory bodies to ensure that the
that training and development in South Africa continues to go playing field supports our members in the best possible
from strength to strength on the back of quality assessment way.
practices.
CIMAP appreciates all member input in this regard, and we
Any provider wishing to apply to have courses registered for look forward to your active participation as a CIMAP
CPD should please contact karen@plc.co.za or member.
admin@cimap.co.za with their proposal and letter of intent
to provide CPD courses. 'One can never consent to creep when one feels
the compulsion to soar'.
Helen Keller
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10. Dr. M. Serfontein In the event that one applicant is the member of a
professional body, employers will view this in a positive light.
(CEA U.K) (Convener – Professional Bodies and Members of profesional bodies are regulated by a
Associations); & Dr. L Meyer professional code of conduct and professional standards of
excellence.
Professionalisation of industries through the development of
professional recognition frameworks has been a pivotal More importantly professional bodies regulate and enforce
process in systemic change. Professional certification of member conduct, and may sanction members that fail to
numerous industries in South Africa has seen the evolution comply with prerequisite standards of ethics and professional
and structuring of industries including payroll, marketing, conduct.
labour recruitment, beauty, health & skincare and real
estate, financial services etc. Embracing A New Paradigm
CIMAP values the pioneering work done into the registration
of professional designation instruments onto the NQF. The Assumption
challenges the current definition of "professional
qualifications" has posed systemic historic challenges.
CIMAP believes that Professional Bodies must be afforded an Reinforce Values Quality of
opportunity to play a momentous role in representing their and Truths Conversation
constituencies. CIMAP will play a national, collaborative
voice within the given constituency, in relation to education
and training. For too long professional bodies have had to
become accredited as training providers to gain some kind of Quality Thinking
identity within the education and training environment in
South Africa.
To gain maximum benefit from your membership to a
Industries need their professional bodies to play the role of professional body, you must must:
referee, rather than player. This implies that professional
bodies should be moderators and standards setters for  Become involved and actively participate in the
education in their industries, and be supported and have an professional body;
active membership base.  Access the network of professionals;
 Educate yourself on member benefits;
Critically embracing change requires an industry to embrace  Participate in CPD activities.
a new paradigm, critically engage with assumptions and the
facilitation of quality conversations. This will consequently CIMAP memberships provides access to qualifications, the
allow for the facilitation of quality in thinking processes. The use of membership designations, discounted education and
consequence will permit growth or reinforcement of historic training opportunities, admission to a wide knowledge base;
beliefs. and the chance to network with concurring professionals.
CIMAP allows members the opportunity for keeping abreast
The main objectives of Professional Bodies and Association of recent developments in assessment; moderation and ETD
have always been to originate and promote the general Practice. As a member, it is important that you get involved in
advancement of individual industries and the fortification of regional structures or steering committees, contributing
member’s interest. Professional Bodies are normaly not-for- directly to the running of CIMAP.
profit organisations formed for a particular profession that
furthers the interests and development of its members and Taking control of your career and your professional
of the profession itself. development, displays to your employer that you are
ambitious and dedicated to advancing yourself professionally.
Employers that are faced with screening job applicants are
able to differentiate very little from presented CV’s. Each In a global climate where many well-qualified individuals are
possesses the same category of information in a generic competing for limited employment opportunities, no one can
context. New incumbants often display analogous placement afford not to take advantage of every opportunity to add to
capabilities and lack “real-world working experience.” your skill set and make you stand out as a professional!
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11. Message from: Ms. A. Roode Message from Prof. W. Goosen
B.Com. (Hons) - (Convener - Quality Standards) (FCIEA U.K), - (Convener Strategic Alliances)
Quality is the backbone of assessment and moderation
processes whilst values form the foundation.
Quality in assessment means:
 Competent and productive candidates who are able to
reflect and committed to their life-long learning
journeys;
 Ethical and mindful assessors and moderators who are
vigorous in their quest for credible assessment
practices;
 Outcomes that encompass knowledge, skills, attitudes The development of strategic alliances and protocols for
and values that are linked to personal effectiveness reciprocity promotes the advancement of international
and national goals; best practice in assessment. Assessment practice globally
 Processes and practices through which assessors and has the opportunity to develop in both the educational
moderator skillfully apply outcomes-based sphere as well the field of performance assessment. Much
methodology with well-designed materials for work is still needed to consolidate thinking to present
credible recognition and growth. assessment as a uniform practice for both learning and
workplace achievements.
Vision:
 Creating a common picture of quality assessments and Assessment is the basis of adding norms and value to
achieving it through teamwork. human life, thus at the core of creating recognition.
Recognition however enables human motivation, as it
Our immediate goals are: allows the individual the opportunity to quantify
 To develop quality standards and best practice achievements and subsequently understand his or her own
guidelines for Assessors and Moderators; achievements and challenges so much better.
 To develop a Competence Framework for Assessors
Through the clarity the individual can plan, the skills set
and Moderators.
and develop a personal vision for future achievements.
Assessment enables us to see what where we are, so that
Some challenges in our system include:
we may plan where will go!
 Insufficient guidance at national level;
 Lack of trust between stakeholders;.
 Limited professional development. 'Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.'
Edward de Bono
Our approach:
 We appreciate the system with its challenges and
complexity. Regional Conveners
 We value the collective effort and recognize the need
to collaborate at national level. . Please contact CIMAP for the name of your closest regional
 We apply lateral and systems thinking in our approach representative. – admin@cimap.co.za
to planning and problem solving.
Regional Conveners:
Stakeholder input: S. Louw, N. Khumalo, P. Lala, P. Oaks, C, Kekana, M.
 Your contributions in the development of the quality Billington, D. Van Rooyen, D, Padayachie, P, Mugumo.
standards are needed and appreciated because it is
the right thing to do.
I am looking forward to working with individuals and
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12. Membership Benefits Advocacy
A professional body can only lobby to the extent of its
Professional Recognition and membership support. All professional assessors, moderators
Designations and ETD Practitioners should join CIMAP.
Once members have
demonstrated that they have A group of industry practitioners that recognised the need for
the requisite experience, a cohesive and credible voice has started CIMAP. CIMAP is a
qualifications and skills, you professional body that will lobby government and regulatory
may join CIMAP and add the institutions for tangible benefits to our members.
appropriate letters behind
CIMAP opportunities
your name known as designations. Designations confirm
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complied with. Designations also confirm the levels of industry resources. Getting the most out of any professional
expertise and qualifications of practitioners. association membership is like anything else in life -- you are
going to get out of it as much as you put into it! CIMAP would
Credibility and uncompromising quality are at the heart of like members to actively participate in all structures and drive
CIMAPs existence. the industry forward.
Information, Advice and Communication CIMAP Memberships opens a pathway to join the rapidly
CIMAP offers member’s access to industry news, surveys, expanding world of the professional; national members and
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events. CIMAP communicates regularly with members organisations. Membership presents opportunities for
through communiques and newsletters. competition, professional recognition and access to
educational forums.
Networking Opportunities
CIMAP has regional networking and professional Referral Service
development events that members may attend to confirm As a core benefit to CIMAP members, is that CIMAP will
current developments in our sector. CIMAP conferences will maintain an online database of members and their areas of
offer tremendous networking and research opportunities. expertise / specialisation (with their permission).
Career Development Corporate referrals for prospective clients looking for
Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is essential to assessment, moderation and ETDP services will be done for
forge a successful career. Professional development will members.
include access to local and international experts.
Support system
Public Relations and Marketing CIMAP Members can take advantage of formal coaching or
CIMAP will actively market to stakeholders on the scope and mentoring relationships with assessors that are more
benefits of CIMAP and our industry. experienced, moderators and ETD Practitioners.
CIMAP will seek to ensure the expansion of opportunities Mentors will provide guidance and useful insights. Such
for or members. By investing in research and building relationships can be a source of answers and solutions when
alliances, CIMAP will focus on building credibility and you’re facing a challenging situation. Mentoring will allow
position. members a support network behind you can boost your
confidence when problems arise.
Professional bodies are growing their membership globally.
The value of professional bodies cannot be overstated. Yours in assessment excellence!
'You may feel like a voice in the wilderness, but it is your CIMAP Board and Members.
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