Support Resources for Basic Competency Assessment

1. Support Resources for Basic Competency Assessment Mr Henry Fung Tak Kit (SCDO, EMB)

2. Resource Banks for Basic Competency Assessment • Student Assessment (SA) • Web-based Learning and Teaching Support (WLTS)

3. Common Features • Web-based • Free • For self use • Based on BC descriptors • Facilitating detection of problems in L&T and timely provision of guidance and support

4. Features of Student Assessment • Covering all four language skills • Teachers can create their own assessments with SA • Computer marking and instant reports on students' performance

5. Design : BC-based Identify students’ needs from various sources of information Select BC’s for students’ needs

6. A sample SA task Reading : Pet Reading strategies for comprehension Extraction of information

7. Reading : Pets Q 3, 4 main idea, inference Q 8 specific information

8. specific information main ideas inference

9. Listening – theme-based : Which pets ?

10. Listening Strategies

11. Writing (theme-based) : Pet Owners

12. Writing (theme-based) Pet Owners Writing Strategy Using spidergrams as guide

13. Reporting • All answers will be marked by the system automatically (except writing and speaking tasks) • Teachers can access both students' individual and class reports of the assessment

14. Click for reports

15. Click for Student Report Click for Class Report Select student

16. Click for student ranking of achievement green box: No. of correct answers white box: No. of incorrect answers

18. Total of correct answers

19. Have I got sufficient information about students’ performance so far? Have I considered all evidence? What are the possible problems What are the possible causes? Who needs help? Whole class or individual students...? How to help them to improve...?

20. Web-based Learning & Teaching Support • an on-going development • under teacher’s supervision or by self-access • no student enrollment needed • helps teachers provide timely assistance to less capable students • helps teachers reflect on L&T • Information / resources / suggestions for use and improvement

21. Step 1: Go to the EMB Website (http://www.emb.gov.hk)Step 2: Click “Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary Education”

22. Step 3: Click for “Curriculum Development”

23. Step 4: Click “Assessment for Learning”

24. Click to enter

25. Click Key Stage 3 • Click all 3 Strands / Dimensions • Click both Listening and Reading skills • Click submit

26. 2. Click ‘2’ for direct entry into the task 1. Click to select BCs

27. Click to enter

28. Vocabulary, language, functions, skills

29. Click to enter

32. Thank you!