Assessment Conference 2014 Exploring E
Transcription
Assessment Conference 2014 Exploring E
Assessment Conference 2014 Exploring E-Assessment for Learning in an Era of E-Learning Day 1 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) C.C.C. Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Day 2 16 January 2014 (Thursday) C.C.C. Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Hosted by Assessment Research Centre The Hong Kong Institute of Education Sponsored by 1 Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................................................... 2 Welcome Message ................................................................................................................. 4 Conference Theme ................................................................................................................. 5 Conference Sub-themes ........................................................................................................ 5 Conference Organizer ............................................................................................................ 6 Schedule Day 1: 15 Jan 2014 ............................................................................................ 7 Schedule Day 2: 16 Jan 2014 ............................................................................................ 8 Opening Ceremony ................................................................................................................ 9 Closing Ceremony .................................................................................................................. 9 Keynote Address (Dr. Richard M. SMITH) ............................................................................ 10 Keynote Address (Prof. Bor-Chen KUO) ............................................................................... 11 Invited speaker (Prof. Siu Cheung KONG) ............................................................................ 12 Invited speaker (Prof. Nancy LAW) ...................................................................................... 13 Invited speaker (Prof. Xiaoqing GU)..................................................................................... 14 Day 1 Parallel Session A1 ............................................................................................ 15 Day 1 Parallel Session A2 ............................................................................................ 16 Day 1 Parallel Session A3 ............................................................................................ 17 Day 1 Parallel Session B2 ............................................................................................ 18 Day 1 Parallel Session B3 ............................................................................................ 18 Day 1 Parallel Session C1 ............................................................................................ 19 Day 1 Parallel Session C2 ............................................................................................ 20 Day 1 Parallel Session D1 ............................................................................................ 20 Day 1 Parallel Session D2 ............................................................................................ 21 Day 1 Parallel Session D3 ............................................................................................ 22 Day 1 Parallel Session E2............................................................................................. 23 Day 1 Parallel Session E3............................................................................................. 23 Day 1 Parallel Session F1............................................................................................. 24 Day 1 Parallel Session F2............................................................................................. 25 2 Day 1 Parallel Session F3............................................................................................. 25 Day 2 Parallel Session G1 ............................................................................................ 26 Day 2 Parallel Session G2 ............................................................................................ 27 Day 2 Parallel Session G3 ............................................................................................ 28 Day 2 Parallel Session H2 ............................................................................................ 28 Day 2 Parallel Session H3 ............................................................................................ 29 Day 2 Parallel Session I1 ............................................................................................. 29 Day 2 Parallel Session I2 ............................................................................................. 30 Day 2 Parallel Session I3 ............................................................................................. 31 Day 2 Parallel Session J1 ............................................................................................. 32 Day 2 Parallel Session J2 ............................................................................................. 33 Day 2 Parallel Session K2 ............................................................................................ 34 Day 2 Parallel Session L1 ............................................................................................. 35 Day 2 Parallel Session L2 ............................................................................................. 35 Day 2 Parallel Session M1 ........................................................................................... 36 Day 2 Parallel Session M2 ........................................................................................... 36 Floor Plan ............................................................................................................................. 38 Food Guide ........................................................................................................................... 39 3 Welcome Message It is with great pleasure that we invite you to participate in the Assessment Conference 2014 (AC2014), organised by the Assessment Research Centre (ARC) of The Hong Kong Institute of Education. The conference will be held on 15 - 16 January 2014 in Hong Kong. In recent years, the ARC has been engaged in the generation and dissemination of new knowledge in educational assessment and measurement through the use of information technology. Numerous educational practitioners have benefited from our partnership programmes, research studies, seminars, workshops and publications. We would like to take this opportunity to invite them to share experience and expertise on the topic of e-assessment. The theme of this conference is “Exploring E-Assessment for Learning in an Era of E-Learning”. The keynote lectures and presentations will integrate this theme and cover a wide range of sub-themes, including school leadership on e-assessment and e-learning, teacher development for e-assessment and e-learning, synergy between Assessment for Learning (AFL), Assessment of Learning (AOL), and Assessment as Learning (AAL), pedagogy for e-assessment and e-learning, collaborative knowledge creation facilitated by information technology and digital learning environment: networking, digital classroom, cloud learning and mobile learning. We are honoured to announce that Dr. Richard M. SMITH, editor of the Journal of Applied Measurement, USA and Prof. Bor-Chen KUO from National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan will be our keynote speakers at the conference. In addition, Prof. Siu Cheung KONG from The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Prof. Nancy LAW from The University of Hong Kong and Prof. Xiaoqing GU from East China Normal University, Shanghai will be our invited speakers at the conference. We believe that this conference will provide an excellent opportunity to advance communication, collaboration and exchange among academics, researchers and practitioners. Please join us on 15 and 16 January 2014 for the Assessment Conference 2014. We look forward to welcoming you! The Organising Committee, Assessment Conference 2014 4 Conference Theme Exploring E-Assessment for Learning in an Era of E-Learning Conference Sub-themes School Leadership on E-Assessment and E-Learning Teacher Development for E-Assessment and E-Learning Synergy between Assessment for Learning (AFL), Assessment of Learning (AOL), and Assessment as Learning (AAL) Pedagogy for E-Assessment and E-Learning Collaborative Knowledge Creation facilitated by Information Technology Digital Learning Environment: Networking, Digital Classroom, Cloud Learning and Mobile Learning 5 Conference Organizer The Assessment conference 2014 (AC2014) is hosted by the Assessment Research Centre of The Hong Kong Institute of Education on 15-16 January 2014. Organising Committee Prof. Magdalena Mo Ching MOK (Chair) (Assessment Research Centre, HKIEd) Prof. Wen Chung WANG (Co-Chair) (Assessment Research Centre, HKIEd) Mr. Rex Hong Lok CHIM Ms. Sze Ming LAM Mr. Michael Ronald SU Mr. Michael Ying Wah WONG Mr. Jacob Kun XU Ms. Jingjing YAO Ms. Olivia Tsz Yan YEUNG Mr. Jinxin ZHU 6 Schedule Day 1: 15 Jan 2014 7 Schedule Day 2: 16 Jan 2014 8 Opening Ceremony Honourable Speakers Mr. Mang SHE,. Chief Curriculum Development Officer, IT in Education, Education Infrastructure Division, Education Bureau, HKSAR. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 9:30am - 10:30am Venue: 1/F, School Hall, CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese & English Mr. Victor Pat-leung CHENG,. Executive Director, Hong Kong Education City. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 9:30am - 10:30am Venue: 1/F, School Hall, CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese & English Closing Ceremony Honourable Speaker Prof. John Chi-Kin LEE, Vice President (Academic), The Hong Kong Institute of Education. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 5:00pm - 5:30pm Venue: 1/F, School Hall, CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese & English 9 Keynote Address (Dr. Richard M. SMITH) Using Residual Analysis of Large-Scale Assessments to Inform Instructional and Curriculum Decisions for Districts and Schools Dr. Richard M. SMITH, Editor, Journal of Applied Measurement, USA. Senior Director, Psychometrics at Data Recognition Corporation. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm Venue: 1/F, School Hall, CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English This keynote uses data from a large scale assessment primarily in mathematics and reading to demonstrate the utility of the item/person residual matrix and the item between-group-fit statistic to examine a variety of characteristics of the tests related to the test validity and how to use this data to make local instructional and curricular decisions. With residual analysis it is possible to produce residual plots that provide a simple and direct medium for presenting assessment results to administrators, teachers, and parents. The residual plots can be used to highlight differences at the item, standard or reporting category level for groups of students based on administrative units, such as school, district, or region, or instructional variables such as limited language proficiency. Residual plots can also be based on characteristics of items such as cognitive levels or depth of knowledge to help schools assess the impact of increased rigor in instruction. Issues of test validity are playing an increasingly important role in understanding the results of assessments and residual plots are an efficient method to provide data related to test validity. The presentation will include numerous examples of a wide range of applications of residual analysis. 10 Keynote Address (Prof. Bor-Chen KUO) Combining Cognitive Diagnostic Model and Automated Scoring Mechanism to Develop the Online Test with Multiple Choice and Constructed Response Items Prof. Bor-Chen KUO, Dean, College of Education. Professor, The Graduate Institute of Educational Measurement and Statistics, National Taichung University of Education, Taiwan. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 9:30am - 10:30am Venue: 1/F, School Hall, CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English Traditionally, multiple choice items are widely used in computerized tests or online tests. Recently, constructed response or open-ended items have been paid more attentions, especially, in large scale assessments, such as NAEP, PISA and TIMSS. Constructed response items are beneficial to evaluate complex concepts or skills such as procedure knowledge or problem solving. For reliability and validity consideration, the scoring process of constructed response items is time-consuming, and with expensive human-resource. For improving this situation, a method to combine cognitive diagnostic model (CDM) and automated scoring mechanism (ASM) will be introduced for developing the online test with multiple choice and constructed response items. Some experiments are used to demonstrate how this online test can detect skills and misconceptions in problem solving procedures. The experimental result shows that the performance of this online test is improved by combining CDM and ASM. 11 Invited speaker (Prof. Siu Cheung KONG) Teacher Development for E-Learning Prof. Siu Cheung KONG, Head, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology (MIT), The Hong Kong Institute of Education. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese Digital technologies such as personal mobile devices and social learning networks are turning traditional classrooms in schools into digital classrooms. These changes promote schools to create a seamless learning environment which enables learners to retrieve information, exchange and share learning information with peers and then construct knowledge collaboratively without time and space constraints. School education is therefore advocating for a paradigm shift from teacher-centred teaching to learner-centred learning. The learner-centred learning paradigm encourages learners to develop twenty-first century skills through day-to-day subject learning; and the pedagogy emphasizing constructivist learning can facilitate learners to develop twenty-first century skills. This trend places new demands on teachers and requires a better design for teacher development. This speech introduces a model of constructivist learning in a seamless learning environment. Then, it discusses the challenges to teachers in this new instructional environment, and finally it proposes a teacher development model for promoting learning and teaching in digital classrooms. 12 Invited speaker (Prof. Nancy LAW) Embedded and transformative assessment through e-Learning: possibilities and hurdles Prof. Nancy Wai Ying LAW, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. Professor Nancy Law currently serves as the Corresponding Co-convenor of the Sciences of Learning Strategic Research Theme of the University of Hong Kong and Deputy Director of the Centre for Information Technology in Education in the Faculty of Education. Her research interests include international comparative studies of pedagogical innovations and information technology, models of ICT integration in schools and change leadership, computer supported collaborative learning, learning design and learning analytics. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese supplemented by English There has been in recent years increasing interest in the design and use of assessment as an integral part of the learning design and learning support environment such that assessment tasks are in themselves learning tasks (assessment as learning), and the assessment outcomes will be used interactively during the process of learning to inform the teacher (and the learner) of the progress in order for adjustments be made to the learning design/progression (assessment for learning). This paper reports on a study conducted in a primary school to explore how assessment can be integrated into the e-Learning environment and teacher co-design and planning process. The findings reveal a number of challenges to realize the potential of technology-enabled embedded and transformative assessment that go beyond the technical challenges of assessment design and learning analytics technology. A different level of assessment literacy is needed by teachers, education professionals as well as the wider community is needed for the promises of assessment of and for learning to be realized, and that policy and strategies to promote such assessment literacy at the system and school levels are essential for advances in assessment practice in Hong Kong schools. 13 Invited speaker (Prof. Xiaoqing GU) The analysis and diagnosis of learning behavior in an ICT-rich learning environment Prof. Xiaoqing GU, Professor, Head of Department of Educational Information Technology, East China Normal University. Her research has focused primarily on ICT in education, including the ICT-supported content design and development, ICT-integrated pedagogical innovation, computer-supported collaborative learning, and learning analytics to inform pedagogical design. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Mandarin How Predictable Are the Learning Data: Making Sense of Student Learning Behavior This study investigates the extent to which student learning activities may accurately predict their academic achievements. A complex algorithm is proposed and a visualization tool is provided to trace the learning progress of students and identify the key indicators that need intervention. The quantitative methodology comprises the primary source of data collection for this study. The context is a typical ICT-rich learning environment, with every student completing the course through platform “Sakai”. Variables that demonstrate a significant correlation with student final grade will be identified. A best-fit predictive model for this course with regression modeling will be generated, and a visualization tool will be used to identify key indicators that need timely pedagogical intervention. 14 Day 1 Parallel Session A1 Embedded and transformative assessment through e-Learning: possibilities and hurdles Prof. Nancy Wai Ying LAW, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. Professor Nancy Law currently serves as the Corresponding Co-convenor of the Sciences of Learning Strategic Research Theme of the University of Hong Kong and Deputy Director of the Centre for Information Technology in Education in the Faculty of Education. Her research interests include international comparative studies of pedagogical innovations and information technology, models of ICT integration in schools and change leadership, computer supported collaborative learning, learning design and learning analytics. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 2:00pm - 3:00pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese supplemented by English There has been in recent years increasing interest in the design and use of assessment as an integral part of the learning design and learning support environment such that assessment tasks are in themselves learning tasks (assessment as learning), and the assessment outcomes will be used interactively during the process of learning to inform the teacher (and the learner) of the progress in order for adjustments be made to the learning design/progression (assessment for learning). This paper reports on a study conducted in a primary school to explore how assessment can be integrated into the e-Learning environment and teacher co-design and planning process. The findings reveal a number of challenges to realize the potential of technology-enabled embedded and transformative assessment that go beyond the technical challenges of assessment design and learning analytics technology. A different level of assessment literacy is needed by teachers, education professionals as well as the wider community is needed for the promises of assessment of and for learning to be realized, and that policy and strategies to promote such assessment literacy at the system and school levels are essential for advances in assessment practice in Hong Kong schools. 15 Day 1 Parallel Session A2 Pictorial Story-telling for Hong Kong Primary School Students: Design of the Online Courseware Platform Ms. Cecilia LAW, Deputy Project Director (Assessment & Support), BCA Team, Education Bureau, Hong Kong. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 2:00pm - 2:30pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese In 2010-11, the Education Bureau (EDB), HKSAR commissioned the Faculty of Education in The University of Hong Kong to conduct a study “Students’ Speaking Skills and the Production of Web-based Learning and Teaching Support (WLTS) Materials of the Basic Competency Assessments (BCA) in the Key Learning Area (KLA) of Chinese Language at Primary Levels”. Based on the findings, EDB designed an online courseware platform to support primary school teachers in how to use pictorial story-telling to develop students’ ability in narrating events in order and expressing their own views. The e-learning platform is now available in the website of Web-based Learning and Teaching Support (WLTS). This presentation gives a brief account of the design of the online courseware platform for promoting student’s ability in pictorial story-telling. 16 Day 1 Parallel Session A3 A Reflection of Teaching Experience on the Relationship of Creative Writing Lesson of Chinese Language and Pupils' Self-directed Learning in an E-Learning Environment Dr. Chi Kin CHOW, Principal, Sacred Heart Canossian School, Hong Kong Ms. Cynthia CHAN, Teacher, Sacred Heart Canossian School, Hong Kong Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 2:00pm - 2:30pm Venue: Dance Room (G/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese supplemented by English The Third Strategy launched in 2008 symoblised the further integration of information and communication technology into learning and teaching, and the implementation of e-Learning, but not only the application of IT instrument. The goal of “ paradigm shift”in school education from a text-book and teacher-centered mode to a more interactive and learner-centered mode. We start with Chinese as the on trial subject, to find out how e-learning could affect the traditional learning and teaching modes. This experience of creative writing help to reveal how I.T. technology could be incorporated in the usual learning and teaching procedures and what are the changes, if any. Most of all, to find out if students would be more self-motivated in learning under the new system and their adaptability in this ever-changing 21st century. 17 Day 1 Parallel Session B2 Writing ePlatform: A Corpus-based Resource to Support Learning and Assessment in Writing (English Language) Ms. Flora LEUNG, Senior Curriculum Development Officer (Assessment & Support), BCA Team, Education Bureau, Hong Kong. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 2:30pm - 3:00pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English Based on the findings of a recent study conducted by Education Bureau (EDB) and Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA) on using assessment data to enhance the learning and teaching of Speaking and Writing, an online corpus-based resource tool that provides instant informing feedback has been developed to assist Key Stage Three students writing. This presentation discusses the rationale and the first phase of development of the tool – the Writing ePlatform. Day 1 Parallel Session B3 Development of Inquiry Based Model with Personal Model with Personal E-Book System for Primary School Mr. Wu Lam CHONG, Teacher, Fanling Public School, Hong Kong. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm Venue: Dance Room (G/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese supplemented by Mandarin In September of 2011, Fanling Public School has developed E-learning and Mobile learning in subjects of English Language and General Study of high-grade students for developing their the “21st Century ability” and becoming more self-directed learning. Hoping that our sharing of the experience of preparing and launching of this scheme would be useful for the school interested in trying to carry out E-learning. For the future, that knowledge would helpful to choose the auxiliary material of personal learning, characteristic of learning material, the learning and teaching strategy. 18 Day 1 Parallel Session C1 Assessing Internet Information Problem Solving Skills of Undergraduate Students Dr. William Ko-Wai TANG, Lecturer, The Open University of Hong Kong. He has several years teaching experience in Information Literacy and educational technology at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research interests include Information Literacy, curriculum design and applications of IT in Education. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 3:00pm - 3:30pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese This study aims to assess the ability of Internet information problem solving skills of final year undergraduate students. It includes (1) ability to identify information needs; (2) ability to select web information sources; (3) ability to locate information on the Internet; (4) ability to evaluate internet Information; (5) ability to synthesize information by using internet tools. These skills were measured by questionnaire, skills test and task-based information problem. Results revealed that students were lack of information problem solving skills. They have trouble with identifying the information needs, selecting the best web information sources, revising the initial web search results, judging the quality of websites and summarizing information by using appropriate tools. Instructional support to foster students’ Internet information problem solving skills is essential. 19 Day 1 Parallel Session C2 E-Learning and E-Assessment of Mathematics in the Dynamic Geometry Environment GeoGebra Mr. Anthony C. M. OR, Senior Curriculum Development Officer, Education Bureau, Hong Kong. Chair, GeoGebra Institute of Hong Kong. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 3:00pm - 3:30pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English GeoGebra is a powerful and very popular dynamic geometry freeware. In this session the speaker will share the practices as well as the pedagogy of using GeoGebra in primary and secondary mathematics. Tasks in primary and secondary mathematics in the website of GeoGebra Institute of Hong Kong (http://sites.google.com/site/hkgeogebra) would be presented to illustrate how the distinct features of the software could facilitate the learning and assessment on various topics in mathematics. Day 1 Parallel Session D1 The analysis and diagnosis of learning behavior in an ICT-rich learning environment Prof. Xiaoqing GU, Professor, Head of Department of Educational Information Technology, East China Normal University. Her research has focused primarily on ICT in education, including the ICT-supported content design and development, ICT-integrated pedagogical innovation, computer-supported collaborative learning, and learning analytics to inform pedagogical design. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Mandarin How Predictable Are the Learning Data: Making Sense of Student Learning Behavior This study investigates the extent to which student learning activities may accurately predict their academic achievements. A complex algorithm is proposed and a visualization tool is provided to trace the learning progress of students and identify the key indicators that need intervention. 20 The quantitative methodology comprises the primary source of data collection for this study. The context is a typical ICT-rich learning environment, with every student completing the course through platform “Sakai”. Variables that demonstrate a significant correlation with student final grade will be identified. A best-fit predictive model for this course with regression modeling will be generated, and a visualization tool will be used to identify key indicators that need timely pedagogical intervention. Day 1 Parallel Session D2 How to use online learning platform to facilitate Formative Assessment Mr. Chi Hung HA, Panel Head , True Light Middle School of Hong Kong. Mr. Ka Tim CHU, Panel Head, Hong Kong True Light College. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 4:00pm - 4:30pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese Online Learning platform, such as Edmodo is a very powerful tool to assess students’ learning performance. This platform can build students understanding in a more formative way since it can generate each student a progress report which can help teacher and student to monitor the learning and teaching. Teachers are allowed to create quizzes and assignments for students during lessons or set them as homework. Furthermore, teachers can collect instant feedbacks from students so that teachers can fine tune their teaching based on the students’ understanding. To facilitate the formative assessment on learning and teaching, students and teachers can leave feedback on their assessment which helps them to review and self-reflect their performance. 21 Day 1 Parallel Session D3 E-Learning Platform for Mathematics and Liberal Studies Mr. Yiu Yee KU, Maths Panel Head, TWGHs. Mr. And Mrs. Kwong Sik Kwan College, Hong Kong. Mr. Siu Chuen AU, LS Panel Head, TWGHs. Mr. And Mrs. Kwong Sik Kwan College, Hong Kong. Mr. Kwok Kee WONG, Teacher, TWGHs. Mr. And Mrs. Kwong Sik Kwan College, Hong Kong. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 4:00pm - 4:30pm Venue: Dance Room (G/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese Usually, the SEN students have tremendous difficulties in learning. They do very often lag far behind the standard of other normal students in the same class. An Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) may not be able to solve completely the problem, but to some extent may ease the situation. Our aim is to establish such kind of online learning platform upon the sincere help from our commercial partners. We hope to build a system which could provide lessons of Mathematics and Liberal Studies to those SEN students. For Mathematics, problems on selected topics could be solved by the system. The system could give step-by-step explanations. For Liberal Studies, the system contains abundant electronic contents of the six modules of the syllabus like videos, newspaper cutting, website links, pictures, documents and a lot of other multimedia materials. Besides, a main online game would serve for inter-school competition purpose. 22 Day 1 Parallel Session E2 Meet @ Stratosphere: Appreciation and Creation through E-Learning Exposure for Chinese Language and Literature Curriculum Mr. Tze Fung WONG, Teacher, Kowloon True Light School, Hong Kong. Emerging Leader, ASCD (The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development). Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 4:30pm - 5:00pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese When Language and Literature meets e-Learning, the integration will pave way for the new turn of curriculum planning and implementation. Prologue : Virtual Dialogue between Fullan and Sato Discussion: Integrating Technology, Pedagogy and Change Knowledge Examples: Appreciation and Creation through E-Learning Exposure for Chinese Language and Literature Curriculum Remarks: Beyond the School-based Curriculum Development Day 1 Parallel Session E3 The Innovative E-Learning Project Ms. Lai Ching LAU, Vice Principal, Fung Kai Innovative School and the coordinator of the eLearning pilot project. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 4:30pm - 5:00pm Venue: Dance Room (G/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese The Innovative E-learning Project aims at constructing a student-centred learning and assessment for learning with the integration of ICT in teaching and learning for the 21st century. With the advent of technology, the school has created the technology rich environment where students can access the internet with their own Netbooks with the interactive E-learning contents of English, Maths, Chinese and General Studies which are 23 co-developed by the school and the publishers, and the interactive e-learning platform of Microsoft’s SharePoint for sharing e-learning materials, data-analysis discussion in groups and the forum with instant feedbacks among peers and teachers. Day 1 Parallel Session F1 Collaborative Leadership on Challenging Improvement: Simulation-Based Learning Elementary School Ms. Vivian Wei GUO, a doctoral candidate in the department of educational policy and leadership at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. Her research interests include principal leadership; gendered leadership, school change capacity, and mid-level leaders’ collaboration. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00pm - 5:30pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English supplemented by Mandarin This stimulation experiment study is designed to explore what leadership, teaching and learning strategies should elementary principals take in order to improve students' school performance. In the experiment, I adopted a reciprocal model among collaborative leadership, teacher development, curriculum and instructional strategies, and evaluation towards student outcomes. Fourteen synergies were created among the total nineteen strategies; more synergies represented greater overall improvements of the targeted school. Using the assessment to test the students’ achievement can reflect the quality of teaching and learning, and measure whether the existing teaching and learning methods are valid. The result suggests that it is wise for principals to transform and develop collaborative leadership to invest in a long-term social relationship with teachers, parents, and community. It is also important to share the cultural norms, maintain a positive climate of school and outside community to improve student outcome. 24 Day 1 Parallel Session F2 Writing 2.0 Mr. Kwok Wing SIT, I.T. Supervisior, Fukien Secondary School, Hong Kong. Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00pm - 5:30pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese The main objective of the project is to develop an electronic teaching platform and self-learning tool for students to enhance their writing skills. It is expected that students could apply the knowledge to other key learning areas in junior forms. Given the electronic teaching platform, some problems currently encountered by students could be solved to a large extent. We also anticipate that e-learning could engage students in self-initiated learning. Day 1 Parallel Session F3 EDB Pilot scheme on E-learning in Schools “The newfangled orbit of electronic learning – developing a conjoint network of information literacy” Ms. Ching Yin KWOK, Information Technology Panel Chair, Po Leung Kuk Chee Jing Yin Primary School; Seconded Teacher, IT in Education Section, EDB Date: 15 January 2014 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00pm - 5:30pm Venue: Dance Room (G/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese Commencing from the academic year 2000, Po Leung Kuk Chee Jing Yin Primary School has become EDB’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) on IT in Education, targeting to provide territory-wide specialized assistance and empirical consultation amongst all primary and secondary schools, so as to act as the dual role of a forerunner and facilitator in steering information technology development. Complementing the advancement of “The third Strategy on Information Technology in Education” and fostering the sustainable development of information literacy, we have successfully applied EDB’s “Pilot scheme on E-learning in Schools” in 2011 to conjoin partner schools, community resources and business sectors to 25 formulate a teaching network to pilot new technologies and pedagogies in using IT, with primary English and Mathematics as the prime foci. The three-year project is primarily focused on the primary curriculum of P.4-P.6, in which two satellite schools, including Po Leung Kuk Riverain Primary School and S.K.H. Kei Fook Primary School, are amalgamated to design English and Mathematics pedagogies infused with information literacy elements collaboratively. It is foreseeable that two sets of information literacy curriculum resources will be produced for each subject per year, in which a total of twelve sets will be created in three years. With the provision of tertiary institute’s professional expertise, we are making an effort to outline the framework of an information literacy curriculum and appropriate assessment criteria. As a result, the practices surfaced can then be referenced by the academic circle. Participating guests will also experience how to integrate information literacy elements into English and Mathematics teaching practices and pedagogies. By means of it, they can encounter how to uplift students’ technique and aptitude in handling information through diversified learning tasks. Day 2 Parallel Session G1 Teacher Development for E-Learning Prof. Siu Cheung KONG, Head, Department of Mathematics and Information Technology (MIT), The Hong Kong Institute of Education. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 11:00am - 12:00pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese Digital technologies such as personal mobile devices and social learning networks are turning traditional classrooms in schools into digital classrooms. These changes promote schools to create a seamless learning environment which enables learners to retrieve information, exchange and share learning information with peers and then construct knowledge collaboratively without time and space constraints. School education is therefore advocating for a paradigm shift from teacher-centred teaching to learner-centred learning. The learner-centred learning paradigm encourages learners to develop twenty-first century skills through day-to-day subject learning; and the pedagogy emphasizing constructivist learning can facilitate learners to develop twenty-first century skills. This trend places new demands on teachers and requires a better design for teacher development. This speech introduces a 26 model of constructivist learning in a seamless learning environment. Then, it discusses the challenges to teachers in this new instructional environment, and finally it proposes a teacher development model for promoting learning and teaching in digital classrooms. Day 2 Parallel Session G2 How Progression Profiling from Gaming Can Help Assess and Enhance Student’s Learning Ability Mr. Roy Vai Vai HO, Teacher, Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima, Macau. Mr. Dicky Chin Pong CHONG, Teacher, Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima, Macau. Ms. Mindy Min Min HO, Teacher, Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima, Macau. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 11:00am - 11:30am Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English In this presentation, I will discuss the idea of a progression profile, idea taken from gaming, and how it can be used to enhance student learning and motivation. Gaming can become a tool to engage students in spending more valuable and voluntary time on educational topics with its stunning visual effect, “stealth” assessment mechanism and interesting role-playing stories. One of the most attractive aspects of gaming that can be used as tool for education is that for every player, the game will keep a profile marking the progression of the player and general gameplay statistics for the player to improve their gameplay. I will discuss how we use this concept and apply it in real life education. 27 Day 2 Parallel Session G3 The Sharing of "The Implementation and Evaluation of the Pilot Scheme on E-Learning in Schools" Mr. Kim TSUI, Deputy Headmaster, HHCKLA Buddhist Wong Cho Sum School, Hong Kong. Mr. Kim Wai WU, English Panel Chairperson, HHCKLA Buddhist Wong Cho Sum School, Hong Kong. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 11:00am - 11:30am Venue: Dance Room (G/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese The sharing session is about our school’s (HHCKLA Buddhist Wong Cho Sum School) participation in ‘Pilot Scheme on e-Learning’, details of the project implementation and relevant evaluation, especially in the area of ‘Online assessment’. Day 2 Parallel Session H2 Enhance Teachers’ Item-setting Techniques and Students’ Problem-solving Skills through “Winsteps” (Rasch Model) Ms. Ivy CHIANG, Administrative staff, Escola Fong Chong da Taipa, Macau. Ms. Leng TSE, Teacher, Escola Fong Chong da Taipa, Macau. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 11:30am - 12:00pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English The English teachers in Escola Fong Chong da Taipa have been taking the training courses about how to enhance teachers’ item-setting techniques and students’ problem-solving skills through “Winsteps” (Rasch Model). We have stored 14 comprehensions in our school self-item bank, through calibrating the field test items with Rasch Model, but it is still in a preliminary stage. The study object of this action research is Primary 4 students in our school. During the action research, Rasch Model is used to analyze the data from assessments. In the initial results, we know our students’ problem-solving skills and choose which items are suitable for them. For item- setting, we are able to set up questions in different levels (retrieve information, interpretation and reflection / evaluation). 28 Day 2 Parallel Session H3 How to promote the electronics teaching of one person’s one machine Mr. Chi Chung CHEN, Panel Head, Tai Po Old Market Public School (Plover Cove). Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 11:30am - 12:00pm Venue: Dance Room (G/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese Part 1: The study promotes the condition that the electronics teaching school of "one person's one machine" must have; Part 2: From plan, promote the administration of the implementation arrangement and related kit preparation; Part 3: The sharing promotes the insight of electronics teaching and in promoting come across of difficulty or restriction; Part 4: The teaching design raises the sharing of corner and student's lessons; Part 5: Expanding of plan. Day 2 Parallel Session I1 Eportfolios as Assessment in Higher Education: Preliminary Findings from a Hong Kong-based Study Dr. Christopher Charles DENEEN, Research Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 2:00pm - 2:30pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English Growing enthusiasm for using eportfolios in higher education (HE) and moves to enhance the learning-orientation of assessment in HE have come together in the promotion and exploration of eportfolios as HE assessment. Current literature on eportfolios in HE disproportionately focuses on interest, enthusiasm and potential, rather than critical 29 examinations of key variables and their relationship to success. Research into eportfolios as assessment in HE hence needs further development. A GRF grant study was undertaken to enhance theoretical understandings of eportfolio use as assessment in HE. The study utilizes a framework that brings together conceptual and utility components of assessment and technology. Qualitative and quantitative methodologies are used to examine eportfolio use in courses from three HE disciplines. Findings include significant differences between instructors’ and students’ conceptions and expectations of assessment tasks and ICT. Variations in the integration of eportfolios into curricula were found to impact both acceptance of eportfolio technology and utilization of eportfolios as assessment for learning. Implications for research, curriculum design and assessment practice will be discussed. Day 2 Parallel Session I2 Improve Students' Reading Comprehension Skill Through Connecting with Daily Life Activity Ms. In Han FONG, Teacher, Pui Ching Middle School Macau. Ms. Pek Fan CHANG, Teacher, Pui Ching Middle School Macau. Ms. Wai Sin NG, Teacher, Pui Ching Middle School Macau. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 2:00pm - 2:30pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese Reading Comprehension is an essential skill for the 21st century and also the pathway to the better understanding of other academic subjects. We have started a discussion on the teaching strategy of Chinese reading comprehension with a group of primary Chinese teachers from our school in the hope of finding a consistent way of increasing students' motivation on reading while improving their related skills. After much discussion, we have decided that we will guide the students to connect with daily life activity by reading more about their surrondings and things that happen around them such as local news. By relating reading comprehension with day-to-day life activity, this strategy has helped increase the students' interest in reading since the materials are more relevant to 30 them than the textbook materials; moreover, reading about daily life activity significantly increases the students' time spent on reading and thus increases their skill level. Day 2 Parallel Session I3 Information Literacy Education: A Practice in Integrated Humanities through E-Learning Mr. Ka Lun LAU, IT in Ed. Coordinator, eLearning Project Leader, Lai King Catholic Secondary School, Hong Kong. Mr. Hoi Chun WONG, IT in Ed. Committee member, eLearning Project Vice Leader, Lai King Catholic Secondary School, Hong Kong. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm Venue: Dance Room (G/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese Students participating in this programme will conduct their discussion-based learning activities in the 3-year Integrated Humanities curriculum using e-learning tools. Students will make use of online student platforms to share learning products, while building learning communities and experiencing collaborative learning in the process. 1. E-learning is bound to bring new modes of teaching and learning into the classroom – from the traditional teacher-centred mode into the interactive student-centred mode. 2. By collaborating with the Institute of Education, our school is incorporating information literacy into the Integrated Humanities curriculum, thus enhancing students’ qualities in information literacy, while helping them to get accustomed to learning collaboratively, which is a key competence for Liberal Studies. 3. With ICT tools, students will be open to a wide range of learning opportunities, and will be able to experience a brand new e-learning process. It is expected that students’ IT skills will be strengthened. 4. It is our school’s wish to promote this teaching and learning ideology to other schools upon successful implementation of this programme. We will help to establish a network of schools which aim at promoting information literacy education, and a quality circle of information literacy education in the industry. 31 Day 2 Parallel Session J1 The Power of Digital Video and Interactive e-Applications to Enhance Assessment Pedagogy Mr. Andrew BETHELL, ABA Ltd International Education Consultancy, UK. Andrew Bethell is currently working as a global consultant utlizing his extensive experience as a full time teacher and educationalist, a successful TV producer and founding director and CEO of Teachers TV, the government funded TV channel and online video resource for the education workforce. In 2011 he was appointed CEO of Teaching Channel to set up the US equivalent of Teachers TV funded by the Gates Foundation. He is a recognized expert in innovative technology-led solutions in both teacher training and professional development. He is a senior consultant for Pico Thailand where he advises on the development of video based online professional development and teacher training for the ASEAN region. He is currently working with the Institute Of Education, London on research and resources for effective teaching practices. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 2:30pm - 3:30pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English Digital video is rapidly becoming a major ingredient in the development and dissemination of effective pedagogy for research, professional development and teacher training. This presentation will first provide an overview of the recent research into video based teacher learning. Then, using a series of example video clips it will illustrate different uses of digital video: from teacher based self-evaluation and reflective learning through to the professionally produced video programmes designed to share best practice around the world and promote assessment for learning practice for us in professional learning communities between schools, school districts and countries. Finally there will be an opportunity to demonstrate the very latest technology providing high quality teacher controlled video recording of teaching practice. 32 Day 2 Parallel Session J2 The Impact of Collaborative learning through ICT - Action Research on classroom activities in English Reading Comprehension Lessons Mr. Billy Wai Kei CHAN, Teacher, Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima, Macau. Ms. Alice Ka Wai LEONG, Teacher, Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima, Macau. Ms. Daisy Iok Meng LI, Teacher, Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima, Macau. Ms. Deolinda Sok Ling LEI, Teacher, Colegio de Santa Rosa de Lima, Macau. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 2:30pm - 3:00pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English With the development of ICT, schools are integrating it in the classroom learning. This sharing aims at introducing an action research done in a Macao English-medium school. With the help of ICT, teachers design collaborative learning activities in English Reading Comprehension lessons. Students have interaction, discussions and online tests through the computer. This report would investigate the changes in the students’ motivation and the teachers’ workload in preparing lessons with ICT. The students of a Primary 2 and a Primary 5 classes would participate in this work. Class Observations and Interviews are done with chosen students and teachers. The result is crucial for the curriculum development of English language learning in the school and how ICT could be used in language learning. 33 Day 2 Parallel Session K2 Blending Formal and Informal Learning in Schools with Situational Activities Ms. Becky Lai Sheung HUI, Teacher, eLearning project Coordinator, e-curriculum Designer, Tin Shui Wai Catholic Primary School, Hong Kong. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 3:00pm - 3:30pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: English In this presentation, we will talk about our e-curriculum design. The following is a brief description of it. This is a blended learning which combines the on-line learning with classroom instruction. It focuses on Key Stage 1 (Primary 1 – Primary 3) English language education. It is a student-centered design and the ultimate goals of it are to raise learners’ motivation and cultivate learner autonomy. For raising learners motivation, all the learning materials are designed around the learners who are encouraged to engage the learning materials and deduct new meaning from their learning experiences. Besides, game-based eLearning is applied in this e-curriculum to increase motivation and produce greater attention and retention. As for helping students to become successful lifelong autonomous learners, we adopt Concept-based Curriculum and Instruction, Task-based Learning and Discovery Approach in the e-curriculum as they all emphasize constructivism. Thus, throughout the learning process, students learn how to transfer and construct knowledge by themselves. At the same time they learn to take up the responsibility for their own learning. From the above we find that in this e-curriculum, classroom activities are combined with web-based technology which offers flexibility in teaching, learning and assessment modalities. Besides, through advanced technology sustained learning results are obtained to facilitate learner autonomy. 34 Day 2 Parallel Session L1 Collaborative Platform - Using iPad in Liberal Studies Teaching and Learning Ms. Jessica Yin-fung LAM, Teacher, Tuen Mun Government Secondary School, Hong Kong. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 4:00pm - 4:30pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese iPads are quickly becoming a popular and powerful educational tool for classrooms. Beyond the immediate benefit of engaging students, iPads can improve education efficiency and standards. This presentation illustrates how to use iPads effectively in teaching and learning of liberal studies. Day 2 Parallel Session L2 Introduction of e-Learning pilot project: A System of Self Directed Learning and Self-Assessment (SDLA) Mr. Man Shan LAU, Vice Principal, Yan Chai Hospital Wong Wha San Secondary School. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 4:00pm - 4:30pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese With several years of experience in SDL (Self-Directed Learning), our school pioneered a teaching and learning model entitled “4-C Model of SDL”, i.e. Cognition, Correlation, Cumulative-Digestion, Convergent-Disposition. By integrating such a model into our school-based e-learning platform, it is hoped to achieve the following goals: Further polish students’ self-learning ability and cater for individual learning differences; Shift lesson focus from textbook-based to interactive student-centred learning model; Sharpen our profession as teachers and gradually take on the role as a facilitator, with the capability of utilizing both online and actual modes of teaching. 35 Day 2 Parallel Session M1 EDB Pilot Scheme on e-learning in School: The Youth of Creative Media Education (YCME) Ms Tung Mui YEUNG, Principal, Chi Hong Primary School, Hong Kong. Mr Ying Lun HO, Panel Head, Chi Hong Primary School, Hong Kong. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 4:30pm - 5:00pm Venue: School Hall A (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese EDB Pilot Scheme on e-Learning in school:The Youth of Creative Media Education will be spreading across 3 school years. The most important part of the project is the promotion of animation, to promote students’ self-directed learning and to enhance students’ capability of communication. The project provides a complete solution for different subjects through the use of e-Learning, which incorporates the curriculum design, teachers’ training and the use of the Animation Creativity System. This will open up a new era of education in animation. Day 2 Parallel Session M2 Case study of Assessing Student Competence and Quality of Test Paper by SP-Xpress and Rasch Model Ms. Shaobing TANG, Vice-director of Teaching and Research Office, Huadu Education Bureau, Guangzhou Guangdong China. She is also a doctoral candidate of HongKong Institute of Education. Her research interests include school change and leadership, principals training, teacher professional development and assessment for learning and teaching. Date: 16 January 2014 (Thursday) Time: 4:30pm - 5:00pm Venue: School Hall B (1/F), CCC Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Language: Cantonese This presentation presents a case study of how to assess students’ competence and quality of test paper by SP-Xpress and Rasch Model. The data was collected from 44 students in an ordinary secondary school in mainland China. Results showed that using SP-Xpress and Rasch Model in examination analysis can provide teachers with accurate and scientific 36 information about each student’s competence and the quality of the test paper, which would help teachers improve their teaching strategies and test paper making with the relevant data. The aims of the study are to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning with the feedback from the assessment, and to improve the present traditional methods in assessing students’ competence and test paper quality. 37 Floor Plan 38 Food Guide Castle Peak Road McDonald’s Chinese restaurants Wing Lung Street Chinese restaurants Thai restaurant C.C.C. Heep Woh Primary School (CSW) Castle Peak Road Chinese dim sum Camp Street Chinese restaurants Un Chau Street McDonald’s Chinese dim sum Japanese restaurant Pratas Street Smiling Plaza Chinese restaurants 39