Raj Misser

Mr. PD Misser is the Director of the Quality Assurance Directorate of the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE).

“The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John Maxwell

• To date 18 years in Middle Management with directorate, with 26 years’ experience in Quality Management Systems at Provincial Head Office Level and 36 years’ service in education.
• This Directorate is located within GDE in the Strategic Planning & Systems Branch together with two other directorates, Knowledge Management and Research Directorate and Monitoring & Evaluation Directorate.

Within the Directorate there are three sub-directorates:

Whole School Evaluation (Primary & Secondary Schools) – WSE

conducts school evaluations across public ordinary schools (WSE primary / WSE secondary) in line with the WSE Policy Gazette No. 22512 that looks at schooling within the nine areas of evaluations. This evaluation process provides a clear profile of the school and indicates how the schools can be supported to improve and become excellent schools within the province.

Systemic Evaluation – SE

Whose function is to manage and coordinate systemic evaluation across all grades, national assessment studies, international assessment studies and provincial assessment studies to ascertain the extent to which the entire system is performing. This is the unit that has a responsibility of the administration of activities, such as ELNA, SASE, PIRLS, TIMMS, SEACMEQ, ORF &EMA, etc. Over the past few years actively involved in foundational literacy and numeracy assessment and testing, bench-marking and creating dashboards on performance of learners reading and mathematical abilities at Grade 3 level (10 year old). Created innovation with using technology/App to capture data and create dashboards for reporting and dissemination of findings across education sector.

Service Delivery Oversight – SDO

To provide service delivery oversight within GDE. This includes undertaking special inquiries, surveys, oversight monitoring & evaluations, manage and develop early warning systems and reporting routinely monitor the implementation of selected departmental service delivery programs or interventions.