Time: 1.00 pm -3.00pm
Venue: Conference Room
Sunday, May 8, 2011
2nd MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENTAL MEETING 2011
Time: 1.00 pm -3.00pm
Venue: Conference Room
SHARING SESSION ON THE 15th ASIAN TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE IN MATHEMATICS
Held at the Conference Room Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Hasan on the 20th April 2011.
Presenters from Cg Hjh Norashihah Hj Mohammad (SMSay Hasan), Cg Rina Ajak (SM Menglait) and Cg Azimatul Ihsani Hj Moksin (Maktab Duli)
Friday, May 6, 2011
Brunei Common Assessment Tasks (BCATs)
Why BCATs?
The reason for this is because the School Based Assessment (SBA) over-assessed the students. For SBA, we calculate classworks, homeworks, mini tests and then we have topical tests. After finishing year 8, most of the students obtained lower marks in Maths because of their c/w, h/w and mini tests. So this affected their year 9.
We complained.... so CDD came up with SBAfL (School Based Assessment for Learning), this is when they came up with the idea of creating tasks and assessing students using RUBRICS (will blog about this in detail next time.. for now you can google rubrics). At first, they let the teachers come up with their own tasks and rubrics. --> it didn't work because some of the tasks might be too simple or too hard and some school didn't even bother to do it because it is difficult to come up with the appropriate rubrics.. so it is not fair to be used as an assessment.
which is WHY they come up with BCATS.
BCATs = Brunei Common Assessment Tasks.
The title itself is self-explanatory.
Brunei = whole of Brunei Secondary school will participate.
Common = standardised or the same for all the school.
Assessment = assessing the students abilities in terms of Knowledge & Understanding, Thinking Skills & Problem Solving, and Communication Skills.
Tasks = activity based tasks which can range from investigating LCM, arranging a picnic, climbing mountain, measuring angles using map of Jerudong Park. The tasks are currently designed by CDD (Curriculum Development Department). The activities are designed to measure students' abilities.
We use rubrics for assessing the tasks and they will only be given grades and feedbacks instead of marks.
Personal comment:
I have done BCATs1 which consist of task 1 and task 2. Task 1 was on investigating LCM of consecutive numbers. It was a bit difficult and students didn't really enjoy doing that. Task 2 was on organizing a night at Serasa Beach. Students' enjoy planning the trip. Some of them even use powerpoint presentation. It was quite impressive.
Currently, we are planning on administering BCATs2 which also consist of task 1 and task 2. But i can't reveal the tasks here... not yet :) will update more with photos and maybe some videos of students doing BCATs 2.
Done by,
Rosie.
The reason for this is because the School Based Assessment (SBA) over-assessed the students. For SBA, we calculate classworks, homeworks, mini tests and then we have topical tests. After finishing year 8, most of the students obtained lower marks in Maths because of their c/w, h/w and mini tests. So this affected their year 9.
We complained.... so CDD came up with SBAfL (School Based Assessment for Learning), this is when they came up with the idea of creating tasks and assessing students using RUBRICS (will blog about this in detail next time.. for now you can google rubrics). At first, they let the teachers come up with their own tasks and rubrics. --> it didn't work because some of the tasks might be too simple or too hard and some school didn't even bother to do it because it is difficult to come up with the appropriate rubrics.. so it is not fair to be used as an assessment.
which is WHY they come up with BCATS.
BCATs = Brunei Common Assessment Tasks.
The title itself is self-explanatory.
Brunei = whole of Brunei Secondary school will participate.
Common = standardised or the same for all the school.
Assessment = assessing the students abilities in terms of Knowledge & Understanding, Thinking Skills & Problem Solving, and Communication Skills.
Tasks = activity based tasks which can range from investigating LCM, arranging a picnic, climbing mountain, measuring angles using map of Jerudong Park. The tasks are currently designed by CDD (Curriculum Development Department). The activities are designed to measure students' abilities.
We use rubrics for assessing the tasks and they will only be given grades and feedbacks instead of marks.
Personal comment:
I have done BCATs1 which consist of task 1 and task 2. Task 1 was on investigating LCM of consecutive numbers. It was a bit difficult and students didn't really enjoy doing that. Task 2 was on organizing a night at Serasa Beach. Students' enjoy planning the trip. Some of them even use powerpoint presentation. It was quite impressive.
Currently, we are planning on administering BCATs2 which also consist of task 1 and task 2. But i can't reveal the tasks here... not yet :) will update more with photos and maybe some videos of students doing BCATs 2.
Done by,
Rosie.
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