Assessment trends in Hong Kong: Seeking to establish formative assessment in an examination culture

Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 199-211

  Berry, Rita ^a  

^a THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Assessment for learning; Assessment reform; Culture; Education systems; Policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956143513     PISSN: 0969594X     EISSN: 1465329X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0969594X.2010.527701     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. The Assessment Reform Group. 1999. Assessment for Learning: Beyond the black box. http://www.assessment-reform-group.org.uk/publications.html (accessed April 17, 2008).
2. Berry, R. 2008. Assessment for learning. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
3. Berry, R. 2010. Teachers' orientations towards selecting assessment strategies. New Horizons in Education 58, no. 1: 96-107.
4. Biggs, J. 1996. Testing: To educate or to select? Hong Kong: Hong Kong Educational Publishing Co.
5. Black, P., C. Harrison, C. Lee, B. Marshall, and D. Wiliam. 2003. Assessment for learning: Putting it into practice. Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.
6. Black, P., and D. Wiliam. 1998. Inside the black box: Raising standards through classroom assessment. Phi Delta Kappan 80, no. 2: 139-47.
7. Carless, D. 2005. Prospects for the implementation of assessment for learning. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 12, no. 1: 39-54.
8. Cheung, D. 2001. School-based assessment in public examination: Identifying the concerns of teachers. Educational Journal 29, no. 2: 105-23.
9. Choi, C.C. 1999. Public examinations in Hong Kong. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice 6, no. 3: 405-17.
10. Curriculum Development Council (CDC). 2002. Basic education curriculum guide: Building on strengths (Primary 1-Secondary 3). Hong Kong: Author.
11. Curriculum Development Council (CDC). 2009. Senior Secondary Curriculum Guide (Secondary 4-6). Hong Kong: Author.
12. Education Commission (EC). 2000. Learning for life, learning through life: Reform proposals for the education system in Hong Kong. http://www.e-c.edu.hk/eng/reform/annex/Edureform-eng.pdf (accessed November 28, 2006).
13. Education Convergence and Hong Kong Primary Education Research Association. 2006. The survey result of Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA). http://www.edconvergence.org.hk/ (accessed April 8, 2007).
14. Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Examinations Authority. 1998. Review of public examinations system in Hong Kong: Final report (The ROPES Report). Hong Kong: Author.
15. Hong Kong Education Bureau. 2011a. Figures and statistics. http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=92&langno=1 (accessed April 4, 2011).
16. Hong Kong Education Bureau. 2011b. Kindergarten education. http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=1037&langno=1 (accessed April 4, 2011).
17. Hong Kong Education Bureau. 2011c. Primary education. http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=1038&langno=1 (accessed April 4, 2011).
18. Hong Kong Education Bureau. 2011d. Resource management section, Education Bureau. http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=1032&langno=1 (accessed April 4, 2011).
19. Hong Kong Education Bureau. 2011e. Secondary education. http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=1039&langno=1 (accessed April 4, 2011).
20. Hong Kong Education Bureau. 2011f. Special education. http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=1040&langno=1 (accessed April 4, 2011).
21. Hong Kong Education Bureau. 2011g. Teacher training and qualification. http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?nodeID=269&langno=1 (accessed April 4, 2011).
22. Hong Kong Educational Information Centre Editorial Group. 2004. Memorabilia of the History of Hong Kong Education (1075 to 2003) [in Chinese]. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Culture Association.
23. James, M., R. McCormick, P. Black, P. Carmichael, M. Drummond, A. Fox, J. MacBeath, et al. 2007. Improving learning how to learn: Classrooms, schools, and networks. London: Routledge.
24. Kennedy, K.J., J.K.S. Chan, P.K. Fok, and W.M. Yu. 2008. Forms of assessment and their potential for enhancing learning: Conceptual and cultural issues. Educational Research for Policy and Practice 7, no. 3: 197-207.
25. Lloyd George, R. 1992. The East-West pendulum. Cambridge: Woodhead and Faulkner.
26. Morris, P. 2002. Promoting curriculum reforms in the context of a political transition: An analysis of Hong Kong's experience. Journal of Education Policy 17, no. 1: 13-28.
27. Morris, P., and B. Adamson. 2010. Curriculum, schooling and society in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.
28. Stiggins, R. 2008. Student-involved assessment for learning. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall.
29. Stobart, G. 2008. Testing times: The use and abuses of assessment. London/New York: Routledge.
30. Sweeting, A. 1998. Education and development in Hong Kong. In Curriculum and assessment for Hong Kong: Two components, one system, ed. P. Stimpson and P. Morris, 5-50. Hong Kong: Open University Press.
31. Sweeting, A., and E. Vickers. 2007. Language and the history of colonial education: The case of Hong Kong. Modern Asian Studies 41, no. 1: 1-40.
32. University Grants Committee. 2010. General statistics on higher education in Hong Kong (UGC-funded Institutions): 1999/2000 to 2009/10. http://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/doc/ugc/stat/genstat.pdf (accessed June 26, 2010).
33. Yung, B.H.W. 2006. Assessment reform in science: Fairness and fear. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.