School-based Assessment In Hongkong

Current work in assessment is increasingly linking assessment with learning, seeing both within a sociocultural perspective of learning. A sociocultural view of assessment focuses on culturally relevant assessment designs and authentic task formats that are interactive, dynamic, and collaborative (Gipps 1999). Gipps describes assessment from a sociocultural perspective as integral to the teaching process and embedded in the social and cultural life of the classroom rather than an external

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