The Secondary English Syllabus for Years 7 – 9 is written using the outcomes based approach to education in Solomon Islands. This syllabus is based on an outcomes based curriculum framework with a philosophy of a learner centred teaching pedagogy. It is based on learning outcomes as curriculum standards. These are curriculum requirements that should guide the planning for effective teaching and learning strategies as well as designing and setting of valid, fair and reliable assessments. These standards or curriculum requirements will become the assessment benchmarks for assessment at the school and national levels using both the formative and summative form of assessments.
Assessment is defined as a continued planned process of gathering, analysing and interpreting information and data about students learning. It is a process of seeking and interpreting evidences used by learners and their teachers, to identify where the learners are in their learning, and where they need to go to and how best to get there. It is important that teachers diagnose and identify learning abilities of the learners in order for them to develop and implement intervention strategies to improve both the learning process of learners and teaching approaches of the teachers. Teachers should support learners who have acquired the learning outcomes or curriculum requirements in order to maintain their level of performance and similarly assist leaners who have not acquired the requirements with remedial tasks. This is to enable learners to acquire curriculum requirements and progressed on with their learning. Therefore such assessment strategy is aiming towards improving learning and teaching processes and should focus more on a learner centred teaching pedagogy.
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