Access for Success

The Access for Success Project is one of the DUT Big Rock’s institutional projects. Its focus is to understand who our students are, what are their strengths and weaknesses and how can these be addressed in a curriculum to improve students for success.

In doing so, we design and implement institutional assessments to compliment access and placement instruments. Hence, we have DUT Standardized Assessment Tests (DUT SATAP) that are used by different academic departments in different faculties to do the following. To test already enrolled DUT first year students in particular programmes for the purpose of diagnosing their strengths and weaknesses so that they can be addressed through Learning, Teaching and Assessments for student success. While in some departments, these tests are used together with their department specific criteria to place students in correct academic programmes to ensure student success. Below is a summary of each test that is currently offered through DUT SATAP Testing namely Academic Literacies and English for Academic Purposes, Mathematics, Numeracy, and Scientific Reasoning.

Mr Siyabonga A Mbambo

Position: Academic Developer for Access, Placement and Diagnostic Testing

Tel No: +27 (0)31 373 2478

Email: SiyabongaM28@dut.ac.za

Ms Nkanyezi Bongeka Xulu

Position: nGAP and NESP Administrator

Tel No: +27 (0)31 373 2771

Email: nkanyezix@dut.ac.za