Fri 19 Feb 2016: “Examinations and Assessments : Uses and Misuses in 21st Century Education”
Education around the world is conducted with the help of exams and assessments. Many of us wonder why in Finland, their way of education and assessing students have not led to drilling and pressure for children? Why in the US, parents, schools and even administrators are rethinking the value and form of standardized tests for young students? How are public standardized assessments being used in HK and other parts of the world? What are their uses and misuses?
As we are talking more about the difficult -to-measure soft skills and attributes desirable for the 21st century, how should we balance the pursuit of big data, design exam and assessment, and use its data to ensure that individual development of students is safeguarded?
Comparing US, Finland & HK perspectives
After months of heated TSA debate, it is opportune to have important academics from the US and Finland visiting HK and join this seminar to give us fresh perspectives.
Dr. Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California
Dr. Kristiina Erkkilä, Dir. of Development for the Education & Cultural Services, Espoo, Finland
Professor Esther Ho,Professor, Dept. of Educational Administration and Policy, Fac of Ed, CUHK
The panel will be moderated by Prof. Stephen Chiu, Department of Sociology and CoDirector of The Hong Kong Institute of AsiaPacific Studies, CUHK. Panelists will talk about how exams and assessments are developing in the US, and how Finland, the revered nation in education, assess their students. Hong Kong’s own former PISA director will give her experience in this inspiring seminar too.
Date: Feb 19, 09:30am -11:30am
Venue: ELBLT2 (Esther Lee Building), CUHK
Your are cordially invited to come to this seminar. Please see the attached poster and fill out the google form before Feb 14th with the link below to reserve seats for this FREE seminar.
Registration form: http://goo.gl/forms/CFiiQm7OKu
*Before registration please login to Gmail account.*
Enquiry: info@ediversity.org
Organiser: EDiversity
Coorganisers: Hong Kong Centre for International Student Assessment, CUHK
Public Policy Research Centre, The HK Institute of AsiaPacific Studies, CUHK
The organiser would like to thank the following organisations for making this seminar possible:
The Faculty of Education, the University of HK:for the sponsorship of Dr. Stephen Krashen
Polkuni (HK): for the sponsorship of Dr. Kristiina Erkkilä
The Coorganisers: for the Venue
Bring Me a Book (HK)& Yellow Busfor the support of this seminar.
