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Modern Assessment Positive Impact in NZ schools |
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PP: 11-18 |
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Areej M. Alharbi,
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Abstract |
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| In 2008, the Ministry of Education of New Zealand implemented the National Standards that were focused on equalizing the students’ learning outcomes in reading, writing and maths. Other school subjects were blatantly downplayed and neglected. Such approach could result in lowering students’ motivation to study because the education processes became more formalized and boring. Teachers also complained they could not influence the education process with their creative ideas on how to improve the learning outcomes of every student. In 2017, the National Standards were scrapped, and the summative assessment at schools had been replaced with the formative assessment that took the form of the ‘real-time’ observations over the students’ performance. Formative assessment is much more likely to meet the requirements of the modern labour market that needs a workforce with creative thinking skills. Nurturing creativity must be the foremost priority of the education system of both New Zealand and Saudi Arabia because this is what the modern labour market expects from the school graduates. |
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