Unions believe partial evaluation moderated by overall school performance will create pointless paperwork
A key teaching union believes a school-based assessment model proposed by the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority will reflect little of how students perform at school in their overall public exam grades.
Under the proposal released this month, students' performance in projects, tests and exams in history and Chinese history at school will carry a 20 per cent weighting in the two subjects in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) from next year.
The authority also recommends their performance in school be moderated by their school's performance in the public exam to ensure consistency.
Hui Chun-lung, president of Hong Kong Teachers' Association of Chinese History Education, said teachers supported the spirit of school-based assessment but opposed the moderation of school results by public exam performance.
'It is contradictory for the authority to propose moderation, and say in its proposal that school-based assessment is crucial for reflecting abilities that cannot be assessed in public exams,' he said.
'If moderation is imposed, students' school performance will only have a minimal influence on their overall public exam grades.'
