Staff
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Staff
Profiles| Name: Alan Cliff |
| Position: Project Coordinator; Chief Language and Science Reasoning Test Developer |
| Email:
alan.cliff@uct.ac.za Tel: (021) 650 - 5027 Fax: (021) 650 - 5331 |
| Bio:
Alan's PhD from Auckland University explored the impacts of
further formal study on the conceptions of learning of in-service
educators.
Alan has over 20 years’ experience in Language Education, and more than 10 years’ in Academic Development in Higher Education. Alan’s key research interests are in academic literacy and learning; students’ conceptions of learning; admissions testing; and diagnostic profiling of students’ literacies and numeracies. Alan has delivered papers at national and international conferences and has authored or co-authored more than 20 publications and technical reports in the fields of student learning and testing. He co-ordinates the AARP national Language and Science Test Development team, and participates in national and international testing and evaluation research projects. |
| Name: Lynia Fortuin |
| Position: Project Senior Secretary |
| Email: lynia.fortuin@uct.ac.za Tel: (021) 650 - 5462 Fax: (021) 650 - 5331 |
| Bio: Lynia joined AARP as the Senior Secretary in November 2006.
She is responsible for the administration and reception at the Alternative Admissions Research Project. |
| Name: Anban Naidoo |
| Position: Project Administrator |
| Email: anban.naidoo@uct.ac.za Tel: (021) 650 - 5568 Fax: (021) 650 - 5331 |
| Bio: Anban has been with the project since 2003 and filled the position of project administrator in 2006. He is resposible for co-ordinating test logistics and works closely with the Project Manager. |
| Name: Robyn Newton |
| Position: Language Test Developer |
| Email: robyn.newton@uct.ac.za Tel: (021) 650 - 5566 Fax: (021) 650 - 5331 |
| Bio:
Robyn joined AARP in 2006. Her background is teaching and
lecturing at a Tertiary level, mostly to students who learn in their
second language. She has a B.Ed from UKZN. She worked on various access
programmes at UKZN and has expereience in TEFL using and scoring the TOEFL
tests. She is responsible for Test development and item writing. |
| Name: Position Currently Under Advertisment |
| Position: Project Statistician |
| Email: Tel: (021) 650 - 5044 Fax: (021) 650 - 5331 |
| Bio: |
| Name: George Van Der Ross |
| Position: Project Manager |
| Email:
george.vanderross@uct.ac.za Tel: (021) 650 - 5461 Fax: (021) 650 - 5331 |
| Bio: George joined AARP as the Project Manager in 2001.
He is responsible for administration, planning, logistical organisation and resource managment at the Alternative Admissions Research Project. |
| Name: Alvin Visser |
| Position: Research and Administrative Officer |
| Email:
alvin.visser@uct.ac.za Tel: (021) 650 - 3112 Fax: (021) 650 - 5331 |
| Bio: Alvin has a MA in Research Psychology and is responsible for database management and research support for the project. Alvin’s current research interest is the assessment of the predictive validity of the AARP testing instruments. He is especially interested in the use of new and innovative approaches such as Survival Analysis. |