3
IT ALSO RECOMMENDED MEASURES TO HELP STUDENTS WHO HAVE LEARNING
STUDENTS WHO DIFFICULTIES,
ARE UNMOTIVATED, OR WHO HAVE
HAVE SEVERE
PROBLEMS. LEARNING
THESE MEASURES INCLUDE THE IMPROVEMENT OF REMEDIAL TEACHING AND THE PROVISION OF SPECIAL PURPOSE SCHOOLS FOR THOSE WHO ARE UNMOTIVATED AND THOSE WHO HAVE SEVERE LEARNING PROBLEMS.
FOR GIFTED CHILDREN, THE COMMISSION RECOMMENDED THAT PROJECT FOR DEVELOPING THEIR POTENTIAL BE CONDUCTED.
THAT THOSE FOR WHOM
A PILOT
REGAIN
THE COMMISSION HOPES
SPECIAL PURPOSE SCHOOLS ARE BEING PROPOSED WILL BECOME MORE SELF-CONFIDENT AND THEIR INTEREST IN LEARNING BY BEING IN AN ENVIRONMENT MORE APPROPRIATE TO THEIR INTERESTS AND ABILITIES.
THE
HAVING LOOKED AT CURRENT ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS IN HONG KONG, COMMISSION PROPOSED THAT A FRAMEWORK OF ATTAINMENT TARGETS AND RELATED ASSESSMENTS BE INTRODUCED IN HONG KONG, COVERING ENGLISH, CHINESE
IT IS UP MATHEMATICS,
TO SECONDARY 3 LEVEL.
ENVISAGED THAT ASSESSMENTS MAY REPLACE SOME EXISTING INTERNAL EXAMINATIONS.
THESE
AT
LEVELS PUT SIMPLY, THIS MEANS THAT BROAD TARGETS AT DIFFERENT
WORK TOWARDS ARE DRAWN UP FOR EACH AREA OF A SUBJECT AND STUDENTS THESE TARGETS. BY ASSESSING THEIR PERFORMANCE AGAINST THE TARGETS KEY STAGES IN THE EDUCATION PROCESS, THE PROGRESS THAT THEY HAVE AND THEIR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IN DIFFERENT AREAS ARE REVEALED.
MADE
THIS
MAY AND
WELL
ENCOURAGE
OF TARGETS AND ASSESSMENT NEW SYSTEM
EDUCATION SYSTEM. REACHING
ON OUR EFFECTS MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT OF WHAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE LEARNT TO BE EFFECTIVE
IN
IT
HAVE COULD WILL ENABLE
FAR-
THE
MORE
IMPROVEMENTS
TEACHING
AND
LEARNING.
ANOTHER ISSUE ADDRESSED IN THE REPORT BY THE COMMISSION IS THAT OF LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION. THE COMMISSION HAS REVIEWED THE REFORMS PROPOSED IN ECR 1 AND ECR 2 AND ALSO THE FINDINGS IN THE REPORT OF THE WORKING GROUP SET UP TO REVIEW LANGUAGE IMPROVEMENT MEASURES.
AGAINST
FUTURE TWO OF
FOR FRAMEWORK THIS BACKGROUND IT PROPOSED A DEVELOPMENT. THE FRAMEWORK HAS THREE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES, WHICH ARE ESTABLISHED POLICY.
TEACHING
AND LEARNING
THE FIRST IS THAT SECONDARY SCHOOLS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO USE CHINESE AS THE MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION, SINCE ALL THINGS
ARE GENERALLY MORE EFFECTIVE
BEING IF THE
EQUAL, MOTHER
TONGUE IS USED.
THE SECOND
IS
THAT SCHOOLS SHOULD
THEMSELVES
DECIDE
WHICH
MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION TO USE.
IS THAT
THE NEW THIRD PRINCIPLE, DRAWN UP BY THE COMMISSION, THE USE OF MIXED-CODE IN SCHOOLS SHOULD BE REDUCED IN FAVOUR OF THE CLEAR AND CONSISTENT
USE OF ONE MEDIUM
TEACHING, TEXTBOOKS AND EXAMINATIONS.
IN IN CLASS
RESPECT OF
/MIXED-CODE IS