American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research (AJHSSR)
2018
American Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Research (AJHSSR) e-ISSN : 2378-703X Volume-02, Issue-03, pp-01-13 www.ajhssr.com
Research Paper
Open Access
School Based Assessment And The Silence Behaviour Among Secondary School Teachers In Kuala Langat, Selangor Darul Ehsan. 1
Abel Raj Sethupathy,2Professor Dr. Abdul Mua’ti @ Zamri Ahmad, 3 Dr. Akmar Hayati Bt. Ghazali,4Dr. Hani Salwah Bt. Yaakup 2,3,4
Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor D.E., Malaysia.
ABSTRACT: This paper discusses the relationship between issues faced by teachers in the implementation of School Based Assessment (SBA) and Teacher Silence among secondary school teachers in Kuala Langat District. It tries to link previous research on problems faced by teachers when implementing the SBA, and a concept which is prevalent among employees outside the Education field, known as Employee Silence. As Employee Silence is a concept that had been studied outside the Education field, this study hopes to observe if such a behaviour is also prevalent among teachers. The research focuses on four problems faced by teachers when implementing the SBA: 1.Lack of Knowledge, 2.Maximization of Work, 3.Inability of Teachers, and 4.Lack of Monitoring. The gap in this study is the link between issues faced in the implementation of the SBA, and the Employee Silence (Teacher Silence in this case) Concept. A total of 292 secondary school teachers were respondents in the study. Questionnaire with a reliability Îą = 0.78 was utilized as the instrument. The result was parallel with the outcome outside the Education field, teachers too have a tendency to remain silent for various intrinsic and extrinsic reasons when faced with problems and obstacles with SBA at schools. Keywords:Employee Silence, Lack of Monitoring, Maximization of Work, School Based Assessment, Teacher Ability, Teacher Knowledge.
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INTRODUCTION
The nature of the problem in this research is teacher behaviour to remain silent and not communicate issues and problems when implementing the SBA to the management. There are separate studies on the SBA, and Employee Silence, however, the link between the two concepts have not been researched. This study considers the outcome of a parallel research connecting the SBA and The Spiral of Silence (which is similar to Employee Silence) among teachers by Nair et. al. (2014) [1].The work done by Crockett, D. (2013) [2] regarding teacher silence at schools has also been a reference in this study. The purpose of this research is to study if teachers too adopt the Silence behaviour when faced with issues at the work place, with specific reference to the SBA. It is the desire of the author that this study will benefit all stakeholders in the education field in Malaysia.Also, it is hoped that this study will allow policy makers to observe communication patterns and issues among teachermanagement in order to further improve the quality of communication in the school environment.
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STUDY BACKGROUND
SBA was officially introduced into the secondary school curriculum in Malaysia starting 2014. This is in line with The National Education Blueprint (2013-2025). However, this policy had caused a number of issues and problems among teachers when implementing in their respective schools. Research had identified several of the issues as, Lack of Knowledge, Maximization of Workload, Inability of Teachers, and Lack of Monitoring. The second focus of this study is on the Employee Silent Concept, which is assumed to affect teachers too when they face problems at the workplace. Employee Silence was researched thoroughly in organizational settings outside the Education field. This study hopes to link both concepts (SBA & The Silence Behaviour) in order to highlight the importance of implementing the SBA successfully by communicating issues and problems faced to the school management, in order for the management to make effective decisions at schools.
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