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■在教育局新安排下，未來3年會隔年舉行小六全港性系統評估，以及中一入學前學科測驗。 資料圖片
教育局上月中宣布，未來3年會隔年舉行小六全港性系統評估，以及中一入學前學科測驗，以減輕學生考試壓力。在新安排下，小六學生只需要參加其中一個公開考試。事實上，現行考核制度下，本港小六生須接受頻密考試，對學生帶來沉重壓力，甚至引發學生不堪重負而輕生的問題，確實需要盡量減少考試，紓緩學生的考試壓力。長遠而言，本港教育改革更應注意與國際接軌，逐步取消小學升中考試，將教學的重點由「應試教育」轉變為學生素質的培養，促進愉快學習，有利學生全面發展。
在追逐名校的思維驅使下，本港教育部門、學校、家長都過分重視考試，令學生陷於沒完沒了的補習、應試之中，學生因不堪考試重負而輕生的事例屢見不鮮。美國的小學生升讀中學不必通過考試，而是按照學區進行劃分；英國近年很多中學都願意調整入學程序與門檻，讓更多學生進入就讀，有些學校索性就不考試，只審核學生的成績或看其面試表現來決定。本港可以借鑒國際成熟的辦學經驗，在中小學階段逐步改變應試教育、精英教育的思維和操作模式，落實求學不是求分數的理念。
Cut excessive examinations to relieve students of pressure
The Education Bureau announced in mid-November that in the coming three years, the Primary Six Territory-wide System Assessment (P6 TSA) and the Pre-S1 Hong Kong Attainment Test (Pre-S1 HKAT) will be held in alternate years in order to relieve students of examination pressure. Under the new arrangement, primary six students need only to sit for one of these public examinations. In fact, the current assessment system, which requires primary six students to take frequent examinations, puts a lot of pressure on the students. This has also led to the student suicide problem as some students simply committed suicide due to the heavy burden. There is indeed a need to cut the number of examinations as much as possible to relieve students of the pressure of examination. In the long term, the education reform in Hong Kong should be geared more towards aligning with international practices. Secondary school entry examinations should be gradually eliminated, and the prime objective of education shifted from preparing students for examinations to developing students* attributes and promoting happy learning to better facilitate the all-round development of the students.
Driven by the mentality where elite schools prevail, education authorities, schools and parents in Hong Kong put excessive emphasis on examinations, and students are forced to take endless extra-curriculum tuitions as well as tests and examinations. Cases in which students took their own lives when they could not cope with the heavy examination pressure have not been uncommon here. In the USA, primary students do not need to take any examination when they enter the secondary level; rather, they are allocated according to school districts. In the UK, many secondary schools are willing to adjust their admission procedures and requirements in recent years to allow for more students; some schools even waive the examination and make decisions based on solely students* academic achievements or their performance in the interview. Hong Kong can learn from the experiences of these sophisticated education practices in the international community and gradually cast aside its examination-oriented mode of education and elitism mentality in primary and secondary education. This is to truly implement the ideology that learning is more than scoring. ■Translation by 東明 tungming23@gmail.com
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