ISSUES & CONCERNS RELATED

TO ASSESSMENT IN M’SIAN ESL

PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Iffah and Ilyana

School-based Assessment

Cultural & ethical issue of assessment

rubric & content
 New
Objectivity changes

Extra
works SOP Time
management
Extra Works
Doing more administrative w
ork

Focusing more on assessing rathe

r than content teaching
Objectivity
able to help the weaker students

able to give all students the same amount of time for their tasks

able to treat each of my students individually according to their

level of learning ability

able to provide opportunity for all my students to demonstrate

their best
 Standard
Operating
Procedures
 unable to follow the
SOP of SBA properly
able to make effective due to time constraints
use of questioning,

SOP
prompts, & probes
to evaluate &
promote
students' learning
New Changes
 new challenges esp
updating students' integration of
development files technology

guiding students to
get better bands
 Time
Management
 have sufficient time to develop SBA
tasks according to students' learning
abilities

insufficient time in insufficient time

the overall school during class periods
yearly prog to fit SBA to assess the
implementation students according
properly to the requirement
of SBA
 Cultural and ethical issue of
assessment rubric and content
Bias, which one is easy to measure/mark and document

Rubrics can place more emphasis upon the technical aspect of

students’ work

Turning projects and papers into exercises- simply following

the rules & addressing the required elements of the rubric

Turning the role of the teacher into that of grader, leaving less
room for the teacher to be an authentic “reader” of students’
work
When tied to points, they can result in overall point values for
students’ work that do not accurately represent students’ learning,
progress, or competence

Decreasing the time & reflection needed for a teacher to assess

students’ work- spending less time with the students’ ideas

Turning assessment into a deficiency-approach to education,

focusing feedback on student weaknesses & errors. This leads
to learners who complete work just to avoid errors and/or to
perform for the teacher
Thank You