The Education Bureau plans changes to its system assessment, to help schools better use its data to enhance learning and teaching, and relieve pressure on primary schools' teachers, students and their parents, it announced today.
The assessment provides schools with information on their overall students' performance at the end of Primary 3, Primary 6 and Secondary 3 on basic competencies. School report data helps teachers identify students' learning difficulties.
It is not meant to serve as a ranking tool for schools.
After a review of the assessment, and wide consultations with stakeholders, the bureau plans to enhance the assessment’s reporting functions and provide a more interactive reporting platform, among other changes.
Importantly, the bureau will not disclose to individual primary schools the percentage of their students achieving basic competencies in Chinese language, English language and mathematics.
The bureau believes this can help alleviate primary schools’ excessive drilling practices and relieve pressure on teachers, students, and their parents.
