School Leadership
The Ministry of Education Malaysia has introduced school-based assessment in the primary schools beginning last year. Details on the innovation is explained in a document entitled “Pengurusan dan Pengendalian Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah (PBS) Sekolah Rendah” published by Lembaga Peperiksaan Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia. This document may be downloaded from the following website www.moe.gov.my/lp/files/penerbitan/buku_pbs/buku dalam.pdf. For this assignment you are required to study the role of leadership in a primary school in implementing the recently introduced school-based assessment. You need to interview a deputy principal and a teacher who are most involved in the implementation of the assessment at the school. Additional data may be gathered from school documents and records. The substantive contents of your report would include: Describing the main features of school-based assessment as practised at the school. The leadership role of the school principal in p...