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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ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13

1-4020-3374-5 (HB) 978-1-4020-3374-2 (HB) 1-4020-3408-3 (e-book) 978-1-4020-3408-4 (e-book)

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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