What does 'less pen and paper assessment' at PSLE mean???
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janet_lee88:
I read with interest regarding this issue. How is it possible to use less pen and paper? Oral doesn't use pen and paper...but is it possible to test students orally for other components?
Maybe use typing answers and email? -
Oppsgal:
Using a new approach and moving away from less pen/paper is new...but are our teachers equipped and trained to prepare our kids for PSLE ??? That is a big question mark. Still find it hard to comprehend why introduce all these stuff to 11/12 year old kidsjanet_lee88:
I read with interest regarding this issue. How is it possible to use less pen and paper? Oral doesn't use pen and paper...but is it possible to test students orally for other components?
Maybe use typing answers and email?
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janet_lee88:
I read with interest regarding this issue. How is it possible to use less pen and paper? Oral doesn't use pen and paper...but is it possible to test students orally for other components?
off hand / my impression
they will test the kid things that the parent will find it hard to make the kid prepare for.
no pen/ paper? no problem. Make videeeooo presentation / editing -
Take multiple choice questions online - no need for paper n pen and easier marking by computer!
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This is taken from CNA
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Minister open to less pen-and-paper assessments at PSLE
Posted: 19 March 2013 1939 hrs
SINGAPORE: Education Minister Heng Swee Keat says he is open to moving away from pen-and-paper assessments at the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE).
But he cautions that even holistic methods of assessment have drawbacks.
He said: \"For instance, if we use a broader range of assessment, it means the child is subject to even more modes of assessment. This by itself can also be another source of stress.
\"And I think if we have to do this across the entire system - and you're looking at something like 40,000 students - how do we ensure standards are maintained right across these different modes?\"
Mr Heng was responding to a suggestion on the debut episode of \"Ask Minister\", a Channel NewsAsia show which airs at 8pm Tuesday.
The show, a Talking Point special on Budget 2013, gets ministers into the studio to discuss the Budget with Singaporeans via web chat.
Transport Minister Lui Tuck Yew takes the hot seat next week.
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Hmmmm, I think less paper and pen assessment would be like show and tell for lower primary which the kids are doing. Maybe other examples could be setting up experiments to test hypothesis for science, performance task for maths. If really less paper and pen for PSLE then prepare to expect more days allocated for exams.
Parents are rather stressed by oral exams now right? So how would less paper and pen help wor? -
Moving away from pen and paper assessment (aka exam) means other forms of assessment e.g. portfolio, project work. If the whole culture of being obsessive about grades does not change, changing the mode of assessment isn’t going to be of much help, really. Parents and teachers will work around the system. For example, in project work, the teachers (and parents) may hand hold the students all the way, editing and re-editing their work until it is almost perfect, if they are under pressure to produce results.
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Preparing for PSLE is stressful…to move away to less pen/paper assessments or anything else is not going to help either. In fact, parents & kids are going to be MORE stressed. Which parent will want their kid to be that guinea pig batch of new testing? I wouldn’t want.
Oral exam is an important component…it carries substantial weightage. After son was done with it in Aug, we went for ice cream to relax. -
Hmm … so if MOE decides that we need people who are confident public speakers, they give a student a passage to read in front of a class of his or her peers (like an oral test) …
Or if they want to train presentation skills, they give the students an hour in front of the computer (with internet access) to write up a presentation on a given topic, then ask the kid to make a presentation in front of a panel of examiners … (again, like an oral test)
Or if they want to test how quickly a student can pick up a new concept, an examiner can teach the concept then ask them to apply the concept (like for math or science)
Or if they decide we need more out of the box thinkers …but … maybe give bonus points? (like for HMT when applying for certain schools) -
Han Seo:
Moving away from pen and paper assessment (aka exam) means other forms of assessment e.g. portfolio, project work. If the whole culture of being obsessive about grades does not change, changing the mode of assessment isn't going to be of much help, really. Parents and teachers will work around the system. For example, in project work, the teachers (and parents) may hand hold the students all the way, editing and re-editing their work until it is almost perfect, if they are under pressure to produce results.
Yup, JC level has project work, I think that's what it's called, and there are so many rehearsals, with the trs, before the final grading.
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