This journal is about the school centered evaluation among ESL professors in Malaysian extra universities. The journal was been compiled by Chan Yuen Fook and Gurnam Kaur Sidhu from Faculty of Education, UiTM Shah Alam. School based examination is one of the functions of monitoring, analyzing and implementing plans to address the weaknesses and talents that will see in university. Actually, without we conscious, the institution based examination already implemented inside our classroom since the past due 1990s and the beginning of year 2000. Alas, there are only a few research to investigate either the institution based evaluation could give a big hit in student's success or not. Therefore, this research was conducted to investigate the knowledge and the best practices of Malaysian ESL instructors in conducting the institution based analysis (SBA) in their class room. School based examination is seen as a substitute ways to help the instructors to learn the progress and also the understanding of their students in their learning. According to our previous Malaysian Minister of Education, Tan Sri Musa Mohamed on, may 7, 2003, he said that the aim of implementing the school based diagnosis is to make our educational system less exam-oriented. Thus, by employing SBA in our classrooms, it might be a better option in determine the students' abilities.
Furthermore, with greater reliance on SBA, such policy can help the teachers to identify their student's strengths and restriction in learning. But, this kind of concept of assessment will require the assessors especially the educators to be well-versed in the data of other form of alternatives assessments such as with term of observations, portfolios, peer and self-evaluation as well as the projects. In facts, if the educators possess low degree of knowledge in doing the diagnosis, they might not in a position to help improve the students learning. Thus, corresponding to Rohizani Yaakub & Norlida Ahmad (2003), they have got said that, improving guidelines of teachers in screening and diagnosis should be an important purpose to be able to enhance the level of professors' knowledge in SBA. The educators must have the clear idea about the institution based evaluation because they'll be a person to be the implementers this concept of evaluation.
Based on the finding from this research journal, the instructors in this analysis were aware of the advantages and cons of school based examination (SBA). They know the advantages of SBA that is can help them in providing the info and understanding needed in order to improve the effectiveness and the training quality. Besides that, the instructors in this research also mindful about the value of SBA in motivating classroom examination to be on-going process. Through the use of this concept of analysis, the teachers believe that the learning become more significant to the students because the students can find the opinions immediately either their performance is great or not. Compared to everything we practice nowadays, the students can have the feedback after the professors conducted the test or exam. Besides that, based on the data that was analyzed by the experts, they also mentioned that, majority the ESL educators have the limited knowledge in some of aspects such as in term of interpreting test results, conducting item evaluation and building the test bank. Many of them admitted that, even though they acquainted with the calculating the mean, standard deviation, z-score and t-score however they only had heard about these terms during the training days and now they already forgotten how to utilize it, their so this means and also their own functions. Thus, this type of knowledge is important to the educators if the institution based examination would be implemented in our school room.
As we know, such method of assessment already became current tactics far away such as United Condition, Britain, Germany, Japan, Finland and New Zealand. Thus, the problems and the situation of lack training and insufficient positive reactions for training in our country is quite similar with what is experienced in other advanced country that practice this kind of assessment like in USA. Many celebrations need that can be played their own role to be able to get a succesful outcome when this concept of diagnosis is implementing inside our school. Such parties like the countrywide organization, the study community and state and as well as the local education companies are require in providing the guide and the information to classes especially to the professors about the use of students' assessment. Schools are utilizing this type of support in order to apply the institution based examination in their own class. Schools must implement assessment system that is not only included with the educational curriculum, but it also would be added to the target in increasing the students achievements based on the number of of content standard.
In school centered assessment, the teachers need to control, synthesizing, interpreting and using student's diagnosis data that need to obtain from a multifaceted examination system, thus this complex duties can be a stressful process for the educator if the diagnosis systems is lack coherence, school personnel do not experience in university student assessment, and enough time, attention and energies of teachers and administrators are need to stretch to personal limitations. Furthermore, in talking about the issues and the issues facing by ESL professors in school structured assessment, majority of them experienced that the execution of SBA is kept much to be desired. Despite the fact that teachers inside our country aware about the value of school structured assessment, nonetheless they emphasized about the time constraints and much teaching load that they have to carry when this concept of analysis is integrated in school room as a culprits in its effectiveness implementation. Aside from the issues of your energy constraint and heavy coaching load, in addition they improve the issues of trustworthiness and validity of university centered test. Hence, it's important for a institution system to constantly evaluate the quality of teaching, learning and evaluation provided in its institutions.
CRITIQUE
As we realize, our Malaysian authorities has proposed to implement school based assessment (SBA) in public areas academic institutions in the try to replace the existing public examinations that we practice today. Thus, for my very own opinion, the implementation the school structured assessment in our educational system could give the pros and cons toward many people especially to students, teachers and schools. Due to our educational system is too reliance with the exam to be able to assess the student's performance and talents or too exam-oriented, our teacher as well as the students just come to institution in a objective to attend the exam. Thus, they figure out how to memorize and recite this issue without have knowing the meaning of this issue. Hence, their capacity is just in memorizing the reality rather than has abilities to understand and relate this issue with the real world. Thus, when the school based examination is integrated in academic institutions, the students cannot just reliance and depend with the examination in order to evaluate their abilities and performance, however they also have to excel in other diagnosis like portfolios, projects, peer and self assessment. Hence, I believe that, by applying the SBA as an on-going diagnosis, it would enhance the students' skills and performance as well as could improve the technology of students.
Besides that, college based assessment also could provide a lot of benefits toward educators. From my reading, teachers easily can evaluate their student's abilities and teachers also will get empowerment in evaluating their students. Thus, the role of educators in this new assessment is vital. Even though the professors have essential role in examining students, I think that the dependability and validity in assessing student's performance can't be constant. Different instructor and institutions have their own desire in examining the students even though the guideline recently been given on their behalf. As we realize, SBA slowly but surely made its way into Malaysian class since the later 1990s, thus from my experience when my teacher give a assignments to finish like in additional mathematics' task, my educators already give a hint or answer to us before we start our assignments, thus from this situation the students did not enhance their critical thinking however they just use and apply what their instructors told them even though it is unlawful for the instructors to do might be found. Thus, the quality that the students received is not valid with the abilities. Hence, I really believe that, such problem would happen in future even though the guideline is directed at our professors. The teachers should have a skill in assessing the student so the stability and validity of educators in assessing students did not surge in future.
In my humble thoughts and opinions, even though I love the programs in implementing university based assessment in our school, but I possibly could feel the burden that the professor need to transport especially in creating the assessment strategies. As what we should already know, this concept of assessment takes a lot of creative imagination privately of the educators. Thus, the changes in the assignments of teachers and learner rest with the teachers as a facilitator of learning. The teachers need to be an innovative thinker in order to examine their student's abilities. As a future teacher, the thing that I could fret when this SBA put in place in university is the cooperation between the educators using their students or fellow workers. This area is need of attention because for me, the professors need cooperation their students in examining the student's performance. The teachers need to comprehend their student's role in school based analysis. Thus, for me the training should be conducted and maybe it's ideal for the instructor to assimilate the SBA in their classrooms.
RECOMMENDATION
School based examination could give a lot of benefits to the people that engrossed but there are a number of existing problems in institution based assessment which have need to handle as soon as possible. If these problems could be reduced, then the implementation of school based examination could give a large hit to educational field. Thus, given below are a few of recommendations that I feel it will bring far better implementation of the institution based analysis.
First advice is the form of trained in SBA. Majority of teachers felt that they have lacked in knowledge and vulnerability of the SBA. Sometimes, the instructor did not learn how to play their role in university based assessment and the way to be good during assessing student's capabilities and performance. Thus, the teachers required the effective trained in the form of briefings about the SBA, programs as well as the workshops. Besides that, even although teacher already went to training, however they might thought that, the subjection that provided by the training center was inadequate and did not cover all the things that they need when they coach in the class. Despite the fact that the Ministry of Education providing them with the booklet about instructing strategies and goals, but sometimes it is not turn out with the nice idea like what was expected. Hence, the interval training should be carried out to help the teacher getting the visibility about the SBA.
Second suggestion is give a powerful monitoring and opinions toward the instructors. Lots of the teachers which may have lacked in the knowledge of SBA required the effective reviews and monitoring from the top of Department. This reviews and monitoring could provide them assist in improving their teaching as well as in integrating with the SBA. Hence, the step needs to be taken by the institution to teach their primary or Mind of Department in monitoring their educators in regards to to school based assessment. The efficiency monitoring that was provided by the school may help the teacher to instruct and examine their learner in track rather than beyond their head.
The third recommendation is reduce the instructor workload and the number of students in a school. Many of professors complained about the time constraint and also the workload. If the amount of students huge in a course, the instructor required a lot of time to utilize the projects, cards and report e book in evaluating the student's performance and ability. The decrease in tutor workload and the number of student's enrolment can be an efficient step to ensure that the execution of SBA could bring success.
Implementation of SBA could bring a large hit to numerous parties that engrossed as long as such problem could be reduced. Perhaps what is needed is a concerted work and co-operation from all parties concerned.
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BACHELOR DEGREE OF EDUCATION OF MATHEMATICS PROGRAM (ED229)
FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
UiTM SECTION 17, SHAH ALAM.
PROBLEM Dealing with IN SCIENCE (SCE 554)
NAME:
Siti Norashidah binti Stomach Rahaman
MATRIC NO:
2009483316
LECTURER'S NAME:
