Page 34 - Annual Report 2018/19
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Engaging with the                                      Over 170 briefing sessions, training sessions,
                                                              workshops and conference sessions were
       Education Community                                    conducted in 2018/19 for different subjects,
                                                              including workshops on question-setting and
                                                              marking  of  written  examinations,  teachers’
       The Advisory Committee on Public Examinations          conferences and experience-sharing
       Administration,  consisting of  school principals      sessions on School-based Assessment (SBA),
       from various school  councils and school               and training sessions on designing SBA tasks
       teachers, met twice  during the year  to               and developing assessment rubrics for
       discuss examination administration matters,            specific subjects.
       including  the  2019  Hong  Kong  Diploma  of
       Secondary Education Examination (HKDSE)
       speaking examination  schedule for candidates          Engaging with the Public
       with special  educational needs (SEN),
       examination  timetable for the 2020 HKDSE,
       review of home centre arrangements for SEN             In January  2019,  an  annual  Open  Day  and
       candidates  and  changes to applications               four sessions of Information Seminars on the
       for    special     examination  arrangements           HKDSE Core Subjects were organised. Over
                                                              1,000 visits by members of the public,
       (SEAs), etc.  Members also shared views on
       setting differential fees for non-local candidates     including students and parents, were
       entering the HKDSE.                                    recorded.
                                                              The Parent Seminar series aiming to raise
       To further enhance the work of examination             parents’ understanding about the HKDSE and
       administration, the Committee also discussed
       the proposal of online submission of Data              other  examinations  suitable  for  secondary
       Access Request (DAR) for obtaining                     school students was held in  September
       examination scripts. The Committee will                2018 and August 2019. The two  seminar
       deliberate some new initiatives such as the            sessions attracted about 750  participants.
                                                              A seminar for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS)
       delivery of DAR report in softcopy only and
       the online release of HKDSE examination                students and their parents was jointly organised
       results  to  school  candidates  via  schools  in      by the HKEAA and the Committee on
       September 2019.                                        Home-School Co-operation, Hong Kong Institute
                                                              of Vocational Education, Hong Kong Police
                                                              Force and Salesians of Don Bosco Ng Siu Mui
       Briefing sessions on the review of examinations
       were held for all 24 Category A subjects and           Secondary School in March 2019. During the
       Applied Learning subjects from September to            seminar, we introduced a suite of international
       November 2018.  Teachers were briefed on               examinations for secondary school leavers.
       the gist of the examination questions, marking
       criteria and performance of candidates.































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