Journal Articles
Half a century of English language assessment in Hong Kong
- Half a century of English language assessment in Hong Kong
- Journal of Applied Research in Education, 19, 1-14, 2015
- Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
- 2015
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- Hong Kong
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- 1997.7 onwards
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- Unknown or Unspecified
- This paper presents a personal picture of my long-standing association with the English language teaching and assessment situation in Hong Kong. The paper presents a 50-year retrospective of assessment in Hong Kong, through the lens of my own 35-year stint in the territory and my personal experience of English language teaching, teacher education, and assessment. I present a historical and theoretical picture of how English language examinations have moved forward in Hong Kong, and how I was fortunate enough to be involved in the big changes which were taking place in English language assessment in particular. While the picture I portray through this paper is a rather personal one, it contributes to an understanding of how assessment reform has been forward-looking, and largely successful, in Hong Kong, painting a picture of how assessment development has complemented curriculum development. I suggest that it may be instructive for educators in other jurisdictions to consider the long-term picture of development in English language assessment reform in their own country with a view to analyzing their own perspectives concerning the relative success of policy changes and large-scale reforms.[Copyright © 2015 Brunei Darussalam : Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.]
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- English
- Journal Articles
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- 23103477
- 19969945
- https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/37179d51
- 2016-05-18
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