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Students cannot evaluate the effectiveness of the decision as they are not actually involved in the implementation process. Teachers should provide students with the final management reports on this problem, and then students can compare their own decisions with professional management views. In this process, students can reflect on how and why decisions were made in order to enhance their decision-making skills.

Generic skills

These steps help students to develop higher-order thinking skills as they need to analyse the findings, generate and evaluate the possible alternatives, and make reasoned decisions.

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Glossary

Term Description

Applied Learning (ApL, formerly known as Career-oriented Studies)

Applied Learning (ApL, formerly known as Career-oriented Studies) is an essential component of the senior secondary curriculum. ApL uses broad professional and vocational fields as the learning platform, developing students’ foundation skills, thinking skills, people skills, values and attitudes and career-related competencies, to prepare them for further studies and / or for work as well as lifelong learning. ApL courses complement 24 senior secondary subjects, diversifying the senior secondary curriculum.

Assessment objectives The outcomes of the curriculum to be assessed in the pubic assessments.

Co-construction Different from the direct instruction and construction approaches to learning and teaching, the co-construction approach

emphasises the class as a community of learners who contribute collectively to the creation of knowledge and the building of criteria for judging such knowledge.

Core subjects Subjects recommended to all students to take at senior secondary level: Chinese Language, English Language, Mathematics and Liberal Studies

Curriculum and

Assessment (C&A) Guide

A guide prepared by the CDC-HKEAA Committee. It embraces curriculum aims/ objectives/ contents and learning outcomes, and assessment guidelines.

Curriculum Interface Curriculum interface refers to the interface between the different key stages/educational stages of the school curriculum (including individual subjects), e.g. the interface between Kindergarten and Primary; Primary and Secondary; and Junior Secondary and Senior Secondary. The Hong Kong school curriculum, made up of eight key learning areas (under which specific subjects are categorised), provides a coherent learning framework to enhance students’ capabilities for whole-person development through engaging them in the five essential learning experiences and helping them develop the nine generic skills as well as positive values and attitudes. Thus when students move on to senior secondary education, they will already have developed the basic knowledge and skills that the study of various subjects requires.

When designing the learning and teaching content and strategies, teachers should build on the knowledge and learning experiences students have gained in the previous key stages.

Term Description

Elective subjects A total of 20 subjects in the proposed new system from which students may choose according to their interests, abilities and aptitudes.

Generic skills Generic skills are skills, abilities and attributes which are fundamental in helping students to acquire, construct and apply knowledge. They are developed through the learning and teaching that take place in the different subjects or key learning areas, and are transferable to different learning situations. Nine types of generic skills are identified in the Hong Kong school curriculum, i.e. collaboration skills, communication skills, creativity, critical thinking skills, information technology skills, numeracy skills, problem solving skills, self-management skills and study skills.

Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE)

The qualification to be awarded to students after completing the three-year senior secondary curriculum and taking the public assessment.

Internal assessment This refers to the assessment activities that are conducted regularly in school to assess students’ performance in learning.

Internal assessment is an inseparable part of the learning and teaching process, and it aims to make learning more effective.

With the information that internal assessment provides, teachers will be able to understand students’ progress in learning, provide them with appropriate feedback and make any adjustments to the learning objectives and teaching strategies they deem necessary.

Key Learning Areas (KLA)

Organisation of the school curriculum structured around fundamental concepts of major knowledge domains. It aims at providing a broad, balanced and coherent curriculum for all students in the essential learning experiences. The Hong Kong curriculum has eight KLAs, namely, Chinese Language Education, English Language Education, Mathematics Education, Personal, Social and Humanities Education, Science Education, Technology Education, Arts Education and Physical Education.

Knowledge construction This refers to the process of learning in which learners are involved not only in acquiring new knowledge, but also in actively relating it to their prior knowledge and experience so as to create and form their own knowledge.

Learning community A learning community refers to a group of people who have shared values and goals, and who work closely together to generate knowledge and create new ways of learning through

Term Description

Learning differences This refers to the gaps in learning that exist in the learning process. Catering for learning differences does not mean rigidly reducing the distance between the learners in terms of progress and development but making full use of their different talents as invaluable resources to facilitate learning and teaching. To cater to learners’ varied needs and abilities, it is important that flexibility be built into the learning and teaching process to help them recognise their unique talents and to provide ample opportunities to encourage them to fulfil their potential and strive for achievement.

Learning outcomes Learning outcomes refer to what learners should be able to do by the end of a particular key stage of learning. Learning outcomes are developed based on the learning targets and objectives of the curriculum for the purpose of evaluating learning effectiveness.

Learning outcomes also describe the levels of performance that learners should attain after completing a particular key stage of learning and serve as a tool for promoting learning and teaching.

Learning targets and learning objectives

 Learning targets set out broadly the knowledge/concepts, skills, values and attitudes that students need to learn and develop.

 Learning objectives define specifically what students should know, value and be able to do in each strand of the subject in accordance with the broad subject targets at each key stage of schooling. They are to be used by teachers as a source list for curriculum, lesson and activity planning.

Level descriptors A set of written descriptions that describes what the typical candidates performing a certain level is able to do in public assessments.

Other learning experiences

For whole person development of students, ‘Other Learning Experiences’ (OLE) is one of the three components that complement the examination subjects and Applied Learning (formerly named as Career-oriented Studies) under the senior secondary curriculum. It includes Moral and Civic Education, Aesthetics Development, Physical Development, Community Service and Career-related Experiences.

Public assessment The associated assessment and examination system for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education.

Term Description SBA moderation

mechanism

The mechanism adopted by HKEAA to adjust SBA marks submitted by schools to iron out possible difference across schools in marking standards and without affecting the rank order determined by the school.

School-based Assessment (SBA)

Assessments administered in schools as part of the teaching and learning process, with students being assessed by their subject teachers. Marks awarded will count towards students’ public assessment results.

School-based curriculum Schools and teachers are encouraged to adapt the central

curriculum to develop their school-based curriculum to help their students achieve the subject targets and overall aims of education.

Measures may include readjusting the learning targets, varying the organisation of contents, adding optional studies and adapting learning, teaching and assessment strategies. A school-based curriculum, hence, is the outcome of a balance between official recommendations and the autonomy of the schools and teachers.

Standards-referenced Reporting

Candidates’ performance in public assessment is reported in terms of levels of performance matched against a set of standards.

Student learning profile It is to provide supplementary information on the secondary school leavers’ participation and specialties during senior secondary years, in addition to their academic performance as reported in the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education, including the assessment results for Applied Learning courses, thus giving a fuller picture of the student’s whole person development.

Values & attitudes Values constitute the foundation of the attitudes and beliefs that influence one’s behaviour and way of life. They help form principles underlying human conduct and critical judgment, and are qualities that learners should develop. Some examples of values are rights and responsibilities, commitment, honesty and national identity. Closely associated with values are attitudes.

The latter supports motivation and cognitive functioning, and affects one’s way of reacting to events or situations. Since both values and attitudes significantly affect the way a student learns, they form an important part of the school curriculum.

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