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Re: Thoughts on Youtube video watched
by BT10110039 DEPHNIE FUNG SIEW CHEAN - Tuesday, 18 September 2012, 06:55 PM
I believe that different student has different types of abilities and ways of learning. Therefore, focusing on examination as a tool to measure of how far they have understood for certain subjects is kinda lame and old-fashioned. Not saying that it is useless, however it is not that suitable anymore since we are in the 21st century. Exam-oriented is traditional and educators do need better tools to measure the level of student's achievement and knowledge.
Performance-based assessment is more likely to show more of what students can do rather than just memorizing. It encourage more of cooperation and skills on determining the quality of products that they will produce.
Independent study project also helps in certain way as it allows student to choose their own cool project that they have much interested in yet it is still fit in the syllabus. Exams is unable to identify much of what the performance based assessment can do. It only test of what the teacher wish to test on rather than seeing the whole process of assessing and assisting them. There's not much of evidence to prove if students really understood what they have learnt or not. It is more likely 'teach to test' kind of assessment. Definitely no longer works well in today's world.
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