The HKEAA will be participating in the International Education Forum and Expo (IEFE) from 14-16 July at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. It will host a booth with the theme “HKDSE: Qualifications for the Future” during the Education Expo from 15-16 July. Visitors to the booth will be able to learn more about Standards-referenced Reporting, Marking and Grading, the Quality Assurance Framework, local and international recognition of the Examination.

Organized by the Education Bureau the IEFE comprises a ministerial roundtable, an international conference and an education expo. One of the aims of the event is to contextualize the New Academic Structure (NAS) both in Hong Kong and in terms of other international education systems.

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Candidates will be sitting the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) Examination for the first time in 2012. To help schools, parents and students have a better understanding of the quality assurance of the HKDSE Examination, the HKEAA has recently published a new booklet entitled: “HKDSE Examination – Quality Assurance Framework”.

Both simplified and full versions of the booklet are available. The simplified version is designed to provide an overview of the quality assurance framework and will be distributed to students who will be the first cohort of candidates next year (i.e. Secondary 5 students in the current school year). The full version is targeted at schools and teachers. It includes more details regarding the provision of relevant quality assurance measures in different core examination processes within the HKDSE Examination.

While candidates and their parents will receive the booklet from their schools, it will also be available to the public at 66 public libraries throughout Hong Kong.

Both versions are also available on the HKEAA website, please click here for more details.

Liberal Studies (LS) is one of the core subjects of the New Senior Secondany (NSS) curriculum. In order to help teachers and students in their teaching and preparation for the examination, as well as to help them gain a better understanding of assessment requirements, the HKEAA has launched a dedicated webpage, "Public Assessment of HKDSE Liberal Studies". The webpage features the latest news and events, sample question papers, exemplars to demonstrate different levels of performance and School-based Assessment (SBA) sample tasks.

Other resources to be found on the webpage include the assessment framework, the format and content of the examination, marking and grading, School-based Assessment and the Standards-referenced Reporting of results.

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The HKEAA will be present at this year’s Hong Kong Book Fair, which will be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from 20 - 26 July.

We will be giving a seminar on “Preparing for the 2012 HKDSE Examination” for parents / students / teachers on 25 July (Monday) from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm in Meeting Room S226-227. A range of HKDSE publications will be available at our booth (1A-C37, Hall 1) in the Book Fair. We will be offering a 15% discount on the HKDSE Standards-referenced Reporting Information Packages as well as the 2012, 2013 and 2014 Regulations and Assessment Frameworks.

For details and registration, please click here to visit the Hong Kong Book Fair website.