Review of NSS Visual Arts Curriculum

Agree 65%

Disagree 21%

No opinion

14%

Ques 1: Overall views

345 schools

The curriculum framework and the scope of learning remain unchanged.

Survey Results - Curriculum

Survey Results - Curriculum

Other feedback • A small number of the respondents suggested providing

learning content/ scope on art appreciation and criticism in context.

Short-term (2016) recommendation on Curriculum

In making recommendations to review the NSS Visual Arts curriculum and assessment, our major considerations are:

• The need to maintain the curriculum framework • Views of different stakeholders, including

• Teachers • Students • Tertiary institutions • One-committee on Visual Arts (SS) and Subject

Committee on Visual Arts (SS) • Employers

• Teachers’ and students’ workload • International benchmarking

• The NSS VA curriculum focuses on developing students’ abilities and is not a content-based curriculum.

• The curriculum provides flexibility for teachers and students to select learning &teaching materials to cater for learner diversity.

• The ‘Learning Objectives & Opportunities’ and ‘Broad Learning Outcomes’ in the Visual Arts Curriculum and Assessment Guide (S4-6) provide guidance to teachers on the selection of learning materials.

Short-term (2016) recommendation on Curriculum

The curriculum framework and the scope of learning remain unchanged.

Mid-/ Long-term Consideration – Curriculum

• Provision of learning content?

• The need to maintain the curriculum framework • Views of different stakeholders • Teachers’ and students’ workload • International benchmarking

Considerations

Support Measures • Visual Arts Professional Learning Communities

• Teachers’ Seminars on Curriculum Interpretation and Planning, Self-directed Learning and Cater for learners’ diversity

• Students’ Sharing on Building and Assessing Portfolios

• Portfolio Exhibition of SS Students’ Visual Arts Work

• Supplementary Notes on NSS VA Curriculum – Examples of Schemes of Work to illustrate the breath and depth of the curriculum

• Web materials: Assessment Tasks Bank – Annotated Cases of Schools’ Internal Examination

Support Measures

• Visual Arts Professional Learning Communities • Teachers’ Seminars on Art Appreciation and

Assessment • Teachers’ Sharing on Curriculum Planning and

Learning & Teaching Strategies • Students’ Sharing on Building and Assessing

Portfolios • Portfolio Exhibition of SS Students’ Visual Arts

Work • Supplementary Notes on NSS VA Curriculum –

Examples of Schemes of Work and Students’ Portfolios to illustrate Broad Learning Outcomes

• Web materials: Assessment Tasks Bank – Annotated Cases of Schools’ Internal Examination

NSS Curriculum and Assessment Review –

HKDSE Visual Arts

HKEAA

Agree

Disagree

No opinion

Survey Results – Public Exam Q.4 No proposed changes are made to the structure and design

of the public examination, subject to regular review and continuous improvement in light of feedback from live examinations.

No. of respondents: 346 schools

Disagreed with using written examination for assessing students’ ability in art appreciation

Increase the weighting of art marking. Reduce the weighting of art appreciation

Disagreed with the requirement of linking art appreciation and art making

Q.5 Other comments on the public examination of this subject:

Survey Results – SBA Q.6 In addition to 4 pages of images showing the 4 pieces of

artwork/critical studies, the number of pages duplicated from the Research Workbook for SBA moderation should:

Not exceed12 pagesNot exceed24 pagesOthers

No. of respondents: 341 schools

Increase the weighting of examination. Reduce the weighting of SBA

Further reduce to 1 portfolio of 3 artwork in SBA

Increase the number of pages in the research workbook for moderation

Submit the whole research workbook

Q.7 Other comments on the SBA of this subject:

The framework is too board, more specific guidelines should be

provides.

To rethink on the requirement of linking art appreciation and art making in Public Examination.

In connection with art appreciation on the public exam & SBA, written assessment is more appropriate than oral assessment.

Q.8 Recommendations on this subject in medium or long term:

Follow up on the Survey Results

NSS Visual Arts Focus group (8 June 2012)

Consultation Forums for NSS Visual Arts (28 August 2012 & 4 Dec 2012)

The Joint Meetings between One-Committee on Visual Arts (SS) and HKDSE Visual Arts Subject Committee (Sept 2012 to Jan 2013)

Other organizations surveys results

Communication with other stakeholders (Principals, teachers, students, parents, associations, concern groups, tertiary education sectors, employs, local and oversea expertise)

Considerations

The need to maintain the curriculum framework

Views of different stakeholders

Teachers’ and students’ workload

International benchmarking

Decisions approved by the Joint CDC and HKEAA Public Examinations Board Meeting

No changes to be made for Public Examination and School-based Assessment in HKDSE Visual Arts

(in short term and subject to regular review and continuous improvement in light of feedback from live examinations)

Reduce to ONE portfolio consisting of a research workbook and 4 pieces of artwork/critical studies of a theme

Increase max no. of sample pages of research workbook for moderation from 12 to 24 starting from 2016 HKDSE

Review the assessment of students’ response in connecting art appreciation and art making in Medium-/Long-term

Streamlined SBA

Streamlining of School-based Assessment 1 portfolio with 4 artworks (Refer to Annex 9 of the circular ‘HKDSE Examination - Finalised Arrangements for the Streamlining of School-based Assessment (SBA)’, dated 28/2/2012)

‘One-off Submission’ of SBA Marks for the 2014 Examination Submit all S5 and S6 SBA marks to the HKEAA in one go in S6 (Refer to the circulars: ‘SBA S6 Work Submission for 2013 English Language and ‘One-off Submission’ of SBA Marks for the 2014 Examination and Beyond, dated 10/12/2012 )

New Online Submission System

One-off Submission of SBA Marks

In order to streamline the administrative procedures, schools are only required to submit all the S5 and S6 SBA marks to the HKEAA in one go in S6 starting from the 2014 HKDSE Examination.

SBA Mark Templates for school INTERNAL record-keeping

To facilitate schools to store the SBA marks, SBA Mark Templates have been prepared for teachers to input the SBA marks for internal record-keeping. The templates are available at the following web pages: www.hkeaa.edu.hk/tc/SBA/sba_hkdse/Marks_Template.html(Chinese) www.hkeaa.edu.hk/en/SBA/sba_hkdse/Marks_Template.html English)

Visual Arts SBA Portfolio—— Assessment Sheet

As information like candidate numbers are not yet available for the time being, the SBA Mark Templates only serve to facilitate schools to input their SBA marks for internal record-keeping but are NOT used for submission purpose in S6. Schools are free to adapt these Mark Templates or use other suitable means to keep their SBA marks in safe custody for submission in S6.

SBA Mark Templates for school INTERNAL record-keeping

New Online Submission System

A new online submission system will be adopted for the mark submission of the 2014 examination. Schools will be informed of the details by the end of 2013.

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