The South African Department of Education has attributed the poor pass rates in Grade 12 Physical Sciences to the learners’ lack of practical work and the inability of learners to solve problems by integrating their knowledge from different topics in Physical Sciences. A possible reason for this could be a disjointed alignment between the curriculum and the examinations. The study reported on in this article focused on the alignment between the curriculum and the examination by analysing the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS) document, the Examinations Guidelines documents, and the final and supplementary examinations of Paper 1 (P1) for Grade 12 Physical Sciences. We used the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum method, which incorporates a document analysis of CAPS and P1 using Bloom’s taxonomy as a classification tool for the 4 physics topics and the 4 levels of cognitive demand. We found a balance of representation of 67%; a cognitive complexity of 80%; and an average Porter’s alignment index of 0.76 between the CAPS and P1, all of which indicates a disjointed CAPS–P1 alignment. We recommend that the CAPS–P1 alignment be reconsidered. Keywords: Bloom’s taxonomy; CAPS Grade 12 Physical Sciences; National Senior Certificate examinations; Porter’s alignment index; Surveys of Enacted Curriculum

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12 年级物理考试与 CAPS 课程的一致性：（2014 年 11 月至 2018 年 3 月）

南非教育部将 12 年级物理科学的低及格率归咎于学习者缺乏实际工作以及学习者无法通过整合物理科学不同主题的知识来解决问题。一个可能的原因可能是课程和考试之间的脱节。本文报告的研究通过分析课程和评估政策声明 (CAPS) 文件、考试指南文件以及 12 年级试卷 1 (P1) 的期末考试和补充考试，重点关注课程与考试之间的一致性物理科学。我们使用了制定课程调查方法，它结合了 CAPS 和 P1 的文档分析，使用 Bloom 的分类法作为 4 个物理主题和 4 个认知需求级别的分类工具。我们发现代表的平衡为 67%；80% 的认知复杂度；CAPS 和 P1 之间的平均波特对齐指数为 0.76，所有这些都表明 CAPS-P1 对齐脱节。我们建议重新考虑 CAPS-P1 对齐。关键词：布卢姆分类法；CAPS 12 年级物理科学；国家高级证书考试；波特对齐指数；已制定课程调查 我们建议重新考虑 CAPS-P1 对齐。关键词：布卢姆分类法；CAPS 12 年级物理科学；国家高级证书考试；波特对齐指数；已制定课程调查 我们建议重新考虑 CAPS-P1 对齐。关键词：布卢姆分类法；CAPS 12 年级物理科学；国家高级证书考试；波特对齐指数；已制定课程调查