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SBA can be weighted down in terms of depth while maintaining the width. Although our intention for SBA is to assess student’s learning, we need to give them more time to deepen their understanding. The students can bridge this gap by practicing yhr TYS

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SBA to be bite-size and varied if possible, for NWA

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List down clear objectives of each assessment and encourage students to manage their stress more effectively (also teach strategies of stress management)

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For common tests to be more mini assessments. E.g. Lesser total marks, trim down number of topics tested perhaps, shorter duration perhaps?

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It will not be the main determine factor in a child’s learning & progress but rather contribute in part to a child’s learning experiences & acquisition of skills & competencies.

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Students can gain recognition for their skills set and not only on pen and paper.

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Ideally, I hope to see SBA less about pen and paper assessment but more about having a choice to demonstrate what you have learnt in the mode they are most comfortable with.

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Common Test will carry out in class for the first two hours of days for the week and lessons will resume after that. CCA will still run as usual without stopping for the common test.

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Common test will be a standardised test that all students will take at the same time. Students can check their learning and be aware of what it is like to take a paper in serious condition. Common test also allows parents to know their child progress.

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Common Test at start of day... then continue lessons?
Seems less like an exam but students may not pay attention during the lessons as they are more concerned about the test the next day. So it might be a "wasted" curriculum time as teachers cannot start teaching new concepts.
Evelyn Koh

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SBA for 2019 and beyond must be made known right from the beginning to students and their parents especially the components, NWA and Assessment that counts and to emphasise using the careful selection of words in letters, PTMs, town hall meetings that the SBA weightage is as such, with emphasis on joy of learning as a process but bearing in mind the need to strike a good balance and also work towards the need to translate what they have learnt into the year end exams with higher weightage. This has to be made known especially to parents so the child will understand the entire environment they are in (in school and after sch)

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SBA for 2019 and beyond must be made known right from the beginning to students and their parents especially the components, NWA and Assessment that counts and to emphasise using the careful selection of words in letters, PTMs, town hall meetings that the SBA weightage is as such, with emphasis on joy of learning as a process but bearing in mind the need to strike a good balance and also work towards the need to translate what they have learnt into the year end exams with higher weightage. This has to be made known especially to parents so the child will understand the entire environment they are in (in school and after sch)

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Ronnie Goh

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Geck:

Part and parcel of classroom work that should not interfere class time. Teachers to make use of assessment fully and take the students through the results after each assessment.
Ideally, it does not even have to be pen and paper.

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Students able to have a good grasps of the LO
Teachers would have the opportunity to address the gaps in learning
Parents can be more relaxed in giving schools the trust in educating the young

Leon

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To be more focused

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How SBA should look like

More freed up time for more opportunities in authentic learning.

It’s not about removing exams but rethinking about exams.

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What I think SBA would look like.

SBA is a good initiative to reduce the workload of teachers and students in order to increase the joy of learning. While their are trade offs and potential pit falls of the system, the benefits simply cannot be ignored and are worth the trade offs being made.

SBA in school should give students and teachers more time to focus on the skills that are taught through the various disciplines that the students undertake. For example science teaches scientific inquiry and data driven conclusions. The ‘white space’ created should be filled with authentic learning activities so that the students are truly able to achieve the joy of learning.

On the other side of the coin, teachers need to be given top down support in order to implement the changes made. There needs to be a consistent tone and message from the ministry to the parents and the children on the merits of the new system and the importance of self-ownership of learning so that the benefits can be fully reaped.

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SBA to be check point, bite sized, less than 1h paper. And lessons will resume after that, so that curriculum hours will be protected.

And all dept’s tests hours should be consistent.

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Allow alternative assessment. If it is a written test., keep to a fixed duration for all the subjects

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Encourage students to take more ownership and be more self directed in their own learning , have the less able students to complete assignments in class to allow more close monitoring (?), have a townhall meeting to highlight to parents on change in assessment and purpose of this change

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Students cannot catch up with a less teacher directed learning, students may not take it seriously, dependent on class profile, not able to assess all students as some may not be called to answer, to change parents mindset to help them understand that we teaching and learning is not compromised despite the change in the manner that school embarks on assessment e.g, less emphasis on weighted assessment

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1.Students will not take the assessment seriously.
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OPPORTUNITY: asking questions to sieve out mind gaps, peer marking and feedback to sieve out mind gaps, White boarding allows students to present their ideas and concepts to the class and have the peers give feedback, tell students the learning objectives of lesson on whiteboard at start of lesson

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Let students enjoy products of their learning(maker faire

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Let students enjoy products of their learning(maker faire

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Opportunity : Non weighted assessment
challenges: students may not treat it seriously
Solutions: communicate the intent of completing these NWA to students in that it helps them learn the bigger concept

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Videobased submission instead of writing it.

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Answers no longer required to be quantifiable (can be open ended)

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1) Able to explore other types of assessment of learning that makes their thinking more visible and more qualitative, and questions which may not lead to right or wrong answers
E.g., recording videos of their thoughts, 2-step multiple choice, having them wrtie their observations
2) more time to implement more practical sessions to assess practical skills in students rather than teacher demo
3) more time to explore peer feedback

Challenges
1) students will not take the assessment seriously and will not out in effort
2) parents are worried how the school will show that the child is learning
3) parents may turn to tuition to know how well their child do
4) quantitative assessment of learning may also take more time (more time than the freed up time given to us) so teachers need to be selective of how many and type of assessment of learning to conduct

Solutions
1) make their non weighted assessment results available to parents
2) need to emphasis clear expectations from beginning of the year - that every task is a reflection if learning
3) communicate to parents how each different department will conduct their non-weighted assessment and how parents will be kept informed of their child learning.

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Opportunity: Students will not be too stressed when there are too many assessments and each of them will count into their year end result. More time can be used to have interesting developing activities with students

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Opportunity: Students will not be too stressed when there are too many assessments and each of them will count into their year end result. More time can be used to have interesting developing activities with students

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Challenge: Some students may not be serious in learning throughout the year and become anxious just before the EOY Exam.

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Assessment for Feedback and Reflection

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i) Opportunities
With reduction of graded tests and exams, this creates more time for students to do more reflection and more time for Teachers to do formative assessment and more time to do markings to provide feedback to students to gauge and guide them along the way towards the EOY exams.

ii) Challenges
Students may switch off when they realise the assessments are non weighted and not counted towards their final year for promotion to the next level. Our students and parents are very practical and they may eventually stress their children to still study and prepare for the final year high weightage exams.

iii) Solutions