PROFESSOR DATUK DR. RAJENDRAN NAGAPPAN Professor of Pedagogy and Thinking Skills,

Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris

DR. ZAINURIYAH ABDUL KHATAB Former Head of Assistant Director,

Research Unit Management Policy Sector, Malaysian Examination Syndicate

30th April 2015SITC Hall, UPSI

Organised by:English Language and Literature Department

Faculty of Languages and CommunicationUniversiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris

8:00 am Registration9:00 am Opening ceremony9:30 am Session 1 Inculcating HOTs Talk Part 1 Professor Datuk Rajendran10:30 am Tea Break11:00 am Session 2 Inculcating HOTs Professor Datuk Rajendran Talk Part 2 and Q & A Session1:00 pm Lunch break2:00 pm Session 3 Assessing HOTs (Talk) Dr Zainuriyah 3:00 pm Session 4 Assessing HOTs (Workshop) Dr Mazura4:30 pm Closing ceremony5:00 pm Refreshment

Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in ESL Learning:

Inculcating and Assessing

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Guest Speakers

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SCHOOL-BASED ASSESSMENT KIT: A STEP TOWARDS HOTSUntil the mid-nineties the nature of assessment process in Malaysia has been centralised and summative. Realising the shortcomings of relying heavily on centralised summative examinations, the Malaysian government made a move to decentralised assessments through School-based Assessment (SBA). In line with this, the SBA Kit is developed to help teachers of the primary and secondary schools improve their professionalism in carrying out discretionary judgments in this new assessment system. The SBA KIT contains DSK-DSP combo, The Dos & Don’ts of Assessment Format, Text Complexity Modules and Samples of Instruments to promote HOTS. This workshop aims to introduce teachers to the overall use of the SBA Kit. Exposure will be given on how to produce sample instruments accordingly apart from enabling the teachers to map evidences against the relevant skills and topics.

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ESL Academic Discourse 4: Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in ESL

Learning: Inculcating and Assessing 30th April 2015

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Miss Mariyatunnitha bt Shari Faculty of Languages & Communication Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, 35900 Tanjong Malim, Perak.

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10th April 2015

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Professor Datuk Dr Rajendran Nagappan is Professor of

Pedagogy and Thinking Skills at Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris. He currently works as the Director of the Unit for Socio-Economic Development of Indian Community and

Coordinator of Action Plan for Future of Tamil Schools at the

Prime Minister’s Department. He completed his PhD from MSU (USA) in 1998 where his area of research was on the teaching of higher order thinking skills (HOTS) in language classrooms. He previously served at the Ministry of Education focusing on, among others, the teaching of thinking skills at teacher education colleges in Malaysia. He has conducted various workshops and seminars for teachers and from the Education Ministry on the teaching of higher order thinking skills (HOTS), both locally and internationally.

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Speaker’s Biodata

Dr Zainuriyah Abdul Khatab is the former Head of Assistant

Director of the Research Unit at Management Policy Sector, Malaysian Examination Syndicate. She has 15 years of experience

in test development and is an expert in performance-

based assessment. Before joining the Examination Syndicate, she taught English and Geography for 14 years at Sekolah Menengah Gombak Setia and Maktab Rendah Sains MARA in Terengganu. She holds a PhD in Measurement and Evaluation from UKM.

Dr Zainuriyah Abdul Khatab

Professor Datuk Dr Rajendran Nagappan

In today’s global economy, Malaysia is highly dependent on its people’s knowledge, skills and competencies in order to face current challenges and to develop rapidly. To achieve this, the country’s education system is experiencing a paradigm shift where the focus of the education is no more to produce students who are able to restate facts. Instead, the prime intent of the Malaysian education system now is to develop and enhance students’ intellectual capacity. This can only be achieved through a system that aims at developing the students’ Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS). To achieve this, teachers play a crucial role in guiding the students, especially with the introduction of PT3 in schools. In line with this, this seminar is organized as a platform to further enhance teachers’ understanding of HOTS, especially those involved in the teaching of English as a Second Language (ESL).

Background1. To enhance ESL practitioners’ understanding of

HOTS.2. To enrich ESL practitioners’ understanding of

how HOTS can be inculcated in their classroom practices.

3. To give insights into the various types of assessments that ESL practitioners can use in accordance with the di�erent levels of HOTS.

Objectives

Speaker’s Biodata

ESL ACADEMIC