Assessment in Boon Lay Secondary School

Assessment is still quite traditional for students at Boon Lay Secondary School. For the Secondary One students at Boon Lay Secondary School, students are involved in a program called HEARTS. There is cooperation between the English and Literature teachers for the Secondary One students to do a language arts program. They have a semestral assessment as well, while CA is tested continually throughout the year. For example, they are asked to write poems which will be counted into their CA marks.

For the Secondary Two students, they are doing The Clay Marble and this is tested for the SA as well. What is tested is the skills that they have to answer literature questions as well as familiarity with the text. They have also been asked to do a March holiday project based on one of the chapters of the text. The students are also given common tests to form part of their CA.

For the Secondary Three students that I am teaching elective literature to, this is the same thing as well with CA being formed of assignments and a major SA twice in the year. The students are assessed on the skills that they have learnt for unseen prose and poetry in the mid year exam.