Transcript HKDSE and selection

Assessment Development
in Hong Kong
September, 2006
Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment
Authority
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Need of Hong Kong Community
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“… we must address the inadequacies within the existing
education system to enable the majority of Hong Kong
people to achieve lifelong learning and all-round education.
All-in-all, despite the huge resources put into education and
the heavy workload endured by teachers, learning
effectiveness of students remains not very promising,
learning is still examinations-driven and scant attention is
paid to ‘learning-to-learn’.”[1]
[1]
Learning for Life, Learning through Life, Education Commission,
September 2000, p4.
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Need of Hong Kong Community
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“The ultimate purpose of assessment should be to provide
information that helps promote learning and teaching, and
form part of the teaching process. However, in reality, tests
and examinations have become the baton directing learning
and teaching … In short, teachers students, parents and
society in general should shake off their traditional concept
of assessment and embrace the new assessment culture”.[1]
[1]
Ibid, p70
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Major Changes
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Amount of testing
What is assessed
How it is reported
Assessment for learning
Assessment processes
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What is assessed
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One less exam = more time for learning
Greater emphasis on thinking skills and
application of knowledge
Greater use of SBA to assess a wider range
of important outcomes
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Validity
Reliability
Positive backwash effects
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SBA
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Significant trimming in requirements
of SBA
Significant reduction in weightings for
many subjects
Phased implementation
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Chinese
Language
3530% Compulsory Part: Coursework and Other Language Activities
combined. Marks to be submitted reduced from 10 to 4
English
Language
3020% Elective Part: Reduced to one mode only (oral assessment) and
number of tasks reduced from 3 to 1
Maths
15%
Number of assessment tasks reduced from 3 to 2
Liberal
Studies
3020% Course performance deleted
Economics
2015% Internal test/exam deleted
Geography
15%
Chinese
History
3020% Internal test/exam deleted
ERS
3020% Continuous assessment deleted
History
3020% Course performance and internal test/exam deleted
THS
30%
Test/exam deleted, weighting on elective part adjusted to 20%,
course performance replaced by two course assignments
Biology
20%
Min. number of practical related tasks (Area A) reduced from 4
to 3
Chemistry
20%
Min. number of non-practical related tasks reduced from 4 to 1
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Physics
20%
Min. number of non-practical related tasks reduced from 2 to 1
Science
20%
Min. number of practical related tasks (Area A) reduced from 3
to 2. Min. number of non-practical related tasks reduced from
4 to 3.
BAFS
20%
Course test/exam deleted. Enterprising Experience now
optional. Group assessment cancelled.
ICT
2520% Core skills assessment incorporated into project work
DAT
40%
HMSC
30%
T&L
30%
Number of lab report/practical tasks reduced from 3 to 1
Chinese Lit.
35%
Compulsory part: Number of creative writing pieces reduced
from 6 to 4, reading reports reduced from 3 to 2
Lit. in Eng
20%
PE
30%
Visual Arts
50%
Music
20%
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Category A : Subjects with SBA
in current HKCEE/HKALE - Implementation in
2012 HKDSE
Subject Group
Subjects
Core Subjects
Chinese Language, English Language,
Liberal Studies
PSHE
Chinese History, History
SE
Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science
TE
ICT, DAT
Literatures,
Chinese Literature,
PE, AE
Visual Arts
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Category B : Subjects having a heavy practical
component / a part of the exam assessing
similar tasks - Implementation in 2012 HKDSE
Subject Group
Subjects
Core Subjects
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PSHE
THS
SE
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TE
HMSC, Technology & Living
Literatures,
Literature in English,
PE, AE
PE, Music
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Category C : Subjects totally new in SBA –
Phased Implementation
Subject Group
Subjects
(Year of full implementation)
Core Subjects
PSHE
Mathematics (2016)
Economics,
Geography, ERS (2014)
SE
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TE
BAFS (2015)
Literatures,
PE, AE
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Statistical Moderation
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To iron out possible difference among
schools in marking standards
Moderate SBA marks with reference to
public exam results
The rank order of students determined
by school will remain unchanged
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Number of
Students
Statistical
moderation
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Raw SBA Mark
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How it is reported
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Standards referenced levels 1-5
Use of 5* and 5** to denote highest
performers
Standards maintained over time using
secure monitoring tests
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Draft
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Maintaining the standard
CE 2007
Monitoring test
•Chinese Language
•English Language
2006
HKDSE
2009
2007
2008
Monitoring test
2010
2011
2012
2013
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Assessment processes
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Automated processes
Scanning of scripts
Onscreen marking
Oral assessment records
Online assessment
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Implementing 334
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Sept – Oct 2006: 3rd round of consultation,
focusing on assessment
Early 2008: Final round of consultation on
Chinese Language and English Language
2008/09: Sample papers and descriptors for
HKDSE subjects; in-service training
International benchmarking of standards
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The challenge
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Assessment development is a global
phenomenon in response to the challenges
of preparing young people for life in the
information society
Hong Kong cannot afford to be left behind
It involves deep-seated cultural change
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