Human Resource Management

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Chun, L. Practice and Challenges of School-based Formative Assessment

Challenges Encountered in School
In the implementation of direct-based formative judicial decision approach, the school had encountered a spot of challenges in the process. Very often, there were new teachers joining the school in new academic years, some of them index not have the professional experience and skills in school-based formative assessment. more or less others might not agree with the custom of formative assessment or would not be willing to change their mind-set unless they saw the good results of formative assessment. The school had to allow seemly time for these new teachers to establish their relevant concept and practice. The quick teachers in the school needed to have the professional knowledge and patience to help the new colleagues to understand and work on formative assessment.

Due to the fact that assessment design in the school was based on branch levels, each differentiate level would have different modes in their assessments. Subject teachers who apply to teach primary 4 classes would not know what was calamity at primary 2 levels. Thus coordination between class levels appears to be important and necessary.



Besides, teachers often had differences in their marking of students work. They might give high marks to their favorite pupils. So the teachers needed to have consensus in assessing pupils by sitting together to hold forth approximately the marking criteria. For example, in marking Chinese composition, teachers discussed about how to count the scores in relation to the content, structure, writing styles and use of phrases as well as their weightings. In order to ensure the use of set criteria, they then picked one or two papers for pre-marking with the use of these criteria and weightings. This was regarded as an effective way to defame the differences between teachers markings. At the end, when they had some assessment papers with very...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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