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The effects of Performance-based Assessment to Enhance Teaching and Learning Science (ForPS) Model on science process skills and science concepts understanding of secondary students in Kinta District of Perak.

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Title
The effects of Performance-based Assessment to Enhance Teaching and Learning Science (ForPS) Model on science process skills and science concepts understanding of secondary students in Kinta District of Perak.
Type
Article
Main Author
Eftah Moh Abdullah
Additional Authors
  • Othman Lebar
  • Abd. Aziz Abd. Shukor
Subject
LB Theory and practice of education
ISSN
2232-0458 /eISSN 2550-1771
Language Code
eng
Bibliographic Details
Place of Production
Tanjong Malim
Publisher
Fakulti Pembangunan Manusia
Year of publication
2012
Notes
Vol. 2 No. 2 (2012): Journal of Research, Policy & Practice of Teachers & Teacher Education (JRPPTTE)
Degree Type
Others
Corporate Name
Perpustakaan Tuanku Bainun

Abstract

Four classes of Form One students of four schools in Kinta district, State of Perak, Malaysia participated in a five weeks intervention designed to enhance teaching and learning science with Performancebased Assessment to Enhance Teaching and Learning Science (ForPS) Model. Teachers in intervention classrooms were implemented an assessment approach that incorporated the use of instructions based on curriculum-specifications from Ministry of Education and the performance-based assessment module into individual and classroom instructional planning. During the intervention period, control groups continued to use of instruction based on a curriculum-specifications from Ministry of Education and the use of a memory-based traditional testing procedures adopted by the school, which included the use of the assessment of learning developed by the subject teachers_. Intervention groups demonstrated significant improvements on some dimensions of performance as measured by the Integrated Science Process Skills and Science Concepts Understanding, whereas control groups exhibited no significance change. Implications for practice are discussed. Key words: ForPS; intervention; process skills; science concepts understanding.

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