Salam
Flow of post in this blog is really slow.I begin to lost a bit of passion.Not sure either it is the passion is losing or I begin to feel bored with the issues being discuss in the media all day long.Anyway post kali ni nak cakap sikit pasal usul to get rid of UPSR and PMR and to be replace by school assessment which from my opinion is ridiculous.It is as ridiculous as trying to pay teacher base on performance.
Point of view aku this thing came cross probably due to the fact that for 2 consecutive years public exam is free which saw burst in annual budget.They got no income but yet to pay questions maker and marker.They still need to print the question.Pay for the invigilators.With so much to be paid and no side income to support this really make sense.Previously we were paying 20 bucks for PMR and 100++ for SPM (depend on the subject).A minimum of 100 will poke in not less 5 million to the fund which will turn to pay the workers.With both SPM and STPM are international standard assessment then you might have a figure on how much they were paid.
How they might do it with school assessment is still a question.It needs to be standardize or else they will be biased on any part of Malaysia.Usually teachers tend to put more question that suit their students which might possibly be a simpler one.This might create a problem when we want to rank the students to be selected to boarding school.It will be much more complicated when it comes to which field you should go after PMR.School does not have the authority to remove student unless with disciplinary reason.A possible solution is parents need to be brief and advice on all the possible field their children might choose after form 3.They can go to Vocational or Technical school to earn some skills rather than taking the head-bursting fields of pure science,literature and others.
Previous two para is only on possible cause and solution.Ungrateful parents might want to see it remove while the fact that they pay nothing for the exam is still there.The thing is they might see the education nowadays is too much to be bear by their children which from my point of view is true.Extended school hours left students with less leisure time.This further packed by other co-curricular and extra classes either at school or at home.Education system need a whole review with discussion from teachers,parents and assessment body.Politician and ministry should not interfere cause it will disrupt the harmony.Opinion from lecturers and any researchers should come later before a new guidelines were to be release.Often happen decision is made from people whom might not spend more than 10 years in teaching school.They are the brilliant of the past the survive from the system and yet their family fail to conquer the current system.
~renung-renungkan dan selamat berkerja~
July 6, 2010 at 3:31 PM
ko rjin btul buat entry pnjg2 eh? =p