Taken from The Star, 9/5/2007 (Wed)
The Malaysian Examinations Syndicate (MES) has proposed to abolish 2 major public examinations – the Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) in Year Six and the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) in Form Three. However, school-based assessment will be replaced instead.
“If this is approved, the UPSR will be conducted for the last time in 2012 and the PMR in 2015,” said the director of MES, Datuk Dr Adi Badiozaman Tuah.
The MES has proposed five forms of assessment for students in the national education system. These will be piloted in the 30 pioneer cluster schools next year. They are:
The MES has recommended that only the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) for Form Five students be retained as a public, central examination at the upper secondary level.
MES is devising psychometric tests which will be introduced in schools to help teachers gather data on their students – including their innate abilities, strengths, weaknesses, talents, aptitudes, attitudes, personalities and interests – to understand them better.
The MES has recommended that only the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia for Form Five students be retained as a public, central examination at the upper secondary level.
Under the proposed move, Dr Adi said, various methods would be used to gather data about students’ growth and development, performance and achievement. Teachers will also be empowered to conduct school-based assessment and will be given tools and traininng to carry it out effectively.
“The focus should not only be on academic aspects. We should also assess students’ personal and character development and involvement in extra-curricular activities,” said Dr. Adi.
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Great job, you are aware of the ill state of our current outdated education system. I'll personally write a review on this and link back to you either tomorrow or 2 days later. Thanks for being responsible by showing concern to this topic! =)
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still is a question whether to remove PMR and UPSR out from the topic in the academic dictionary. PMR is still ok, but UPSR in my opinion is as important as SPM in F5, is the exam which show how much u'd learned throughout the whole primary phase. even though i m a guy who support fully on practical, still UPSR i felt it should be there.