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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