Current Issues on Assessment in Education during Pandemic
Isu Semasa Pentaksiran dalam Pendidikan ketika Pandemik
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https://doi.org/10.33102/sainsinsani.vol7no1.325Keywords:
Pandemic, Assessment, Formative Assessment, School-Based Assessment, Pendamik; Pentaksiran; Pentaksiran Formatif; Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah;Abstract
School Based Assessment (SBA) is a concept integrated in the Malaysian education system to harmonise assessment of an educator into the process of teaching and learning, with an idea to optimize students’ understanding of a subject they are learning. When the Covid-19 virus ravages the world, the education sector was not spared, schools were quick to be shut down in fear of the disease. It was not long before the education system was forced to adapt the unconventional method of leaning to outlast the pandemic. Rushing, even in good intention, comes with myriad of the issues and the concern of the effectivity of SBA in this new environment is not excused. With student focused education principles rooted in the education system, to being virtually available in a virtual classroom is a challenge to both to the teachers and students. To enforce discipline and to engage individual student in of itself is not an easy task let alone when both parties separated by miles away. Thus, this paper will cast an overview the effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic to the Malaysian education system, issues related to online assessment in the Malaysia education system during pandemic and assessment practices, challenges and solution during pandemic by other countries.
Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah (PBS) adalah konsep penilaian yang digunapakai oleh guru-guru dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran bagi mengoptimumkan pemahaman pelajar terhadap sesuatu subjek yang mereka pelajari. Disiplin yang melibatkan pelajar dalam pembelajaran bukanlah tugas yang mudah, apatah lagi ketika kedua-dua pihak dipisahkan dengan jarak. Oleh itu, artikel ini akan menjelaskan kesan Pandemik COVID-19 terhadap sistem pendidikan Malaysia, isu-isu yang berkaitan dengan penilaian dalam talian dalam sistem pendidikan Malaysia semasa pandemik dan amalan penilaian, cabaran dan penyelesaian semasa pandemik yang dilaksanakan oleh negara lain. Metodologi yang digunakan dalam artikel ini adalah kualitatif, melalui tinjauan dokumen secara khusus mengenai kajian masa terdahulu dari tahun 2019 hingga 2021. Kajian terdahulu menunjukkan bahawa semasa pandemik e-Pembelajaran banyak dipraktikan, dan PBS menggantikan peperiksaan formal. Selain itu, keperluan untuk alat teknologi dan sambungan internet menjadi isu yang tidak pernah berakhir dalam kalangan pelajar. Walau bagaimanapun, beberapa negara telah mempraktikkan penilaian dalam talian untuk menggantikan amalan penilaian formal di dalam kelas. Kesimpulannya, sebarang perubahan dalam sistem pendidikan, memerlukan tindakan segera dari setiap pihak yang terlibat, termasuk guru, pelajar dan ibu bapa. Tidak ada seorang pun kanak-kanak yang ketinggalan atau ‘No child left behind’ adalah dasar yang harus menjadi asas keutamaan sistem pendidikan semasa wabak ini.
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