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The development and evaluation of Chinese language item bank in Singapore
Author
Low, Kia Hai
Supervisor
Tan, Seng Chee
Abstract
This paper discusses the developmental process of the national project 'Chinese Language Item Bank' for primary schools, secondary schools and junior colleges from 1999 to 2000. The project was initiated by IT Training Branch of Education Technology Division, Ministry of Education of Singapore. This project involved numerous Schools Working Committees and received strong support from our school Chinese Language teachers. Our working partners were Heads of Department (Mother Tongue) and Chinese Language teachers from primary schools, secondary schools, junior colleges and centralized institutes. This project aims to develop a Chinese Language Item Bank to help facilitate the process of setting Chinese Language test papers and to provide quality question items for assessment purposes. In this project, ITT Working Committee and Schools Working committees adopted the Action Research approach because we believed we were dealing with a real school problem and the Chinese Language teachers were viewed as our research partners.
We worked closely with our Chinese Language teachers to build and evaluate this Item Bank so that they would be in a position to make enhancement to the Chinese Language Item Bank in future. From our findings, we were happy to know that the Chinese Language Item Bank helped to lighten the workload of setting a test paper of the Chinese Language teachers. We started with stand-alone Chinese Language Item Bank with the intention of moving towards an Online Chinese Language Item Bank for our schools.
We worked closely with our Chinese Language teachers to build and evaluate this Item Bank so that they would be in a position to make enhancement to the Chinese Language Item Bank in future. From our findings, we were happy to know that the Chinese Language Item Bank helped to lighten the workload of setting a test paper of the Chinese Language teachers. We started with stand-alone Chinese Language Item Bank with the intention of moving towards an Online Chinese Language Item Bank for our schools.
Date Issued
2003
Call Number
PL1068.S55 Low
Date Submitted
2003