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Raising Assessment Literacy In July 2019, six focus group meetings
for teachers of Chinese Language, English
Language and Mathematics at P.3
To boost teachers’ understanding of level were organised, attended by 342
students’ overall performance, a total of 12 teachers from 112 schools. The meetings
seminars were held in November 2018 for were also held for 90 markers, assistant
teachers of primary and secondary schools. examiners and chief examiners responsible
Among them, seminars on the performance of for P.3 marking, For P.6 and S.3, the focus
SEN and NCS students were held, with the group meetings were held for the first
goal of demonstrating the strengths and time with more than 200 markers attending.
weaknesses of these two student groups in On the whole, the feedback from
each subject. Furthermore, four workshops school teachers and markers on the
on item writing were organised in June 2019 item quality of the assessment and the
for teachers and panel chairpersons of arrangements of the assessment administration
Chinese Language, English Language and was positive.
Mathematics. These workshops were in a
small scale ‘pilot’ mode to test the suitability
of training modes and materials.

Collecting Feedback from Teachers

Focus group meetings were organised
regularly by the HKEAA to collect
feedback from stakeholders. At a session
in January 2019, most teachers from
schools which opted for the P.3 TSA
indicated that the improved TSA
reports provided by the Authority were
useful for them to understand students’
performance. They also stated that
the reports were instrumental for
fine-tuning their teaching plans, and
improving learning and teaching.

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