Assessment Reform in Science Fairness and Fear
The conclusions and recommendations made in the book are derived from a study of ten teachers in Hong Kong as they tried to change their practice following a reform of the Hong Kong assessment system. Hong Kong is simply a context that provided the opport
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Science & Technology Education Library VOLUME 31 SERIES EDITOR William W. Cobern, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA FOUNDING EDITOR Ken Tobin, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA EDITORIAL BOARD Henry Brown-Acquay, University College of Education of Winneba, Ghana Mariona Espinet, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Gurol Irzik, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey Olugbemiro Jegede, The Open University, Hong Kong Reuven Lazarowitz, Technion, Haifa, Israel Lilia Reyes Herrera, Universidad Autónoma de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia Marrisa Rollnick, College of Science, Johannesburg, South Africa Svein Sjøberg, University of Oslo, Norway Hsiao-lin Tuan, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan SCOPE The book series Science & Technology Education Library provides a publication forum for scholarship in science and technology education. It aims to publish innovative books which are at the forefront of the field. Monographs as well as collections of papers will be published.
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Assessment Reform in Science Fairness and Fear
by
BENNY H.W. YUNG The University of Hong Kong
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to all teachers who are in pursuit of protecting students’ interests
Contents
Dedication
v
Preface
ix
Foreword by Peter Fensham
xi
Foreword by Derek Hodson
xiii
Chapter 1
Introduction
1
Chapter 2
The assessment reform
11
Chapter 3
Teachers’ enactment of the reform
19
Chapter 4
Alan – the students’ companion
39
Chapter 5
Bob – the teacher with a mission
57
Chapter 6
Carl – the teacher committed to all-round education
69
Chapter 7
Dawn – the evolving teacher
87
Chapter 8
Eddy – the money-hunter
101
Chapter 9
Hugo – the examiner of a driving test
115
Contents
v i ii Chapter 10
Ivor – the policeman who fears to be scolded by his superior
129
Chapter 11
John – the examination-driven teacher
141
Chapter 12
Looking across the cases – a preliminary analysis
151
Chapter 13
Three views of fairness
165
Chapter 14
Teacher professionalism and policy interpretation
183
Chapter 15
Ways of seeing and ways of enacting
205
Appendix A: A study transversing three bodies of literature
2
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