APRIL 5 ― I recall DAP politician Tony Pua saying many years ago that instead of asking students what year Melaka fell to the Portuguese, students should be asked if it was...
APRIL 5 ― I recall DAP politician Tony Pua saying many years ago that instead of asking students what year Melaka fell to the Portuguese, students should be asked if it wasI’m of the view that if we look deeper into the nature of the question, it could provide a bridge for students to better navigate the transition from secondary school to college.Today a student finishing her SPM exam and entering college may face something of a culture shock.
One, many assessments are in the form of written assignments whose word count can hit a few thousand. Not every student can resist the temptation of copying and pasting whole paragraphs from websites which, ooh! answer the lecturer’s question more or less directly. Hence, the conversion is complete. In Form 5, a student had to stress her hand and reading skills just to produce a 500-word essay; in Year 1 of college she can get everything down with fewer than six clicks.I don’t know how the education community plans to address this issue, this huge leap in assessment culture, but I’d like to propose the open book exam as a potential mediator.
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