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-05, pp-61-69 www.ajhssr.com
Research Paper
Open Access
School Based Assessment And The Comfort Levels Of Secondary School Teachers In Kuala Langat District When Reporting Issues And Problems To The Management. Abel Raj Sethupathy1, Professor Dr. Abdul Mua‟ti @ Zamri Ahmad2, Dr. Akmar Hayati Bt. Ghazali3, Dr. Hani Salwah Bt. Yaakup4 2,3,4
Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang D.E., Malaysia
ASTRACT: The purpose of this article is to observe the comfort levels of secondary school teachers in the district when reporting challenges faced in implementing the SBA to their respective school management. Besides, it also seeks to identify the reasons teachers provide for not communicating the challenges faced to the school authorities. The outcome of this study is beneficial to students, teachers, parents, the MOE and all stakeholders in the Education scenario in the country as it will indicate the success and direction of SBA as the standard curriculum across all national type schools in the district as well as the country. Keywords: SBA, Comfort Levels, Reporting, Silence Behaviour.
I. INTRODUCTION This paper aims to discuss the findings of a study related to the issues and problems faced by secondary school teachers in Kuala Langat District when implementing the SBA, and their comfort levels when reporting the experiences to the school authorities. Holding back and not communicating crucial work-related issues to the management is linked to a concept known as Employee Silence, which has been researched extensively in organizational settings outside the Education field. Besides Employee Silence, other related concepts are also mentioned briefly in this paper. This research seeks to observe the comfort levels of secondary school teachers when deciding to report problems faced in implementing the SBA to their superiors, as well as their reasons for refraining. The paper is divided into the following sections: Research Questions and Research Hypothesis, Literature Review, Methodology, Analysis and Findings, Discussion and Conclusion, and Recommendations.
II. RESEARCH QUESTIONS & HYPOTHESIS 2.1 Research Questions 1. How comfortable are secondary school teachers in Kuala Langat district when reporting the challenges faced in implementing the SBA to the management? 2. What reasons do secondary school teachers in Kuala Langat district give for not reporting the challenges faced in implementing the SBA to the management? 2.2 Research Hypothesis There is a correlation between the challenges faced in implementing SBA and secondary school teachers in Kuala Langat choosing to refrain from communicating issues to the management (the Silence Behaviour).
III. LITERATURE REVIEW 3.1 School Based Assessment: Teachers’ Perceptions Eom (2000) [1] conducted a study on the perceptions of teacher‟s assessment tasks in their classrooms. The outcome provided several findings which were valuable. First the teachers lacked in their skill and knowledge which is needed to enforce the tests of achievement. As an outcome they had difficulty in making material of assessment which would reveal the advancement of student‟s achievement in an English class. Additionally, teachers tend to rely on their student‟s subjective impression as measured at the termination of the semester. Similarly, Lee (2000) [2] also organized a study on the perceptions of teachers of their School Based Assessment. She predicted that still there will be certain teachers who preferred pencil and paper testing to utilize an observation checklist when they enforced their assessments. She also mentioned that still teachers to a great extent had difficulty in examining their students in the classes of English.
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