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Draft assessment guidelines for Target Oriented Curriculum
Draft guidelines on assessment under the Target Oriented Curriculum (TOC) will be distributed to schools in early October for three months' consultation, the Education Department announced today (Tuesday).
Produced by the Co-ordination Committee on Evaluation of TOC, the draft assessment guidelines will cater for Key Stage 1 of the new curriculum, a department spokesman said.
The final version of the guidelines is expected to be ready for distribution to schools in May next year.
The spokesman said the assessment guidelines were intended to enable schools to put into practice the concepts of TOC assessment contained in the Programmes of Study (POS).
"In the PoS of each subject, there is already a chapter on assessment in which the general principles of TOC assessment are described. The criteria of TOC assessment, namely, the eight Bands of Performance, are also listed in the POS," the spokesman said.
"Therefore, the guidelines should be used in conjunction with the POS. The guidelines set out the relationship between the various components of TOC and suggest procedures and methods for use by schools."
The draft assessment guidelines comprise three sets of subject-specific guidelines on procedures and methods in the subjects of Chinese, English and mathematics together with a set of general guidelines on issues common to the three subjects. The Chinese and mathematics guidelines are in Chinese, the English guidelines in English, and the general guidelines in both languages.
The general guidelines show the relationship between assessment targets, bands of performance, assessment objectives and assessment activities. They also give an overview of the assessment procedures including how to plan the learning and assessment activities, how to look for evidence of learning and how to record. summarise and interpret the evidence into reports for parents and schools.
The subject-specific guidelines deal with the details of the assessment procedures, explaining what evidence to look for in assessing a certain assessment objective, how to record the evidence and how to report. They also contain suggested recording and reporting formats.