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Changes To Psle Scoring Make For A Fairer System, David Chan
Changes To Psle Scoring Make For A Fairer System, David Chan
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
The changes to the Primary School Leaving Examination scoring system and how it will be used for admission to secondary schools are scientifically sound and practically sensible ("New PSLE scoring system to have 8 grade bands"; Thursday).
Editorial: Enhancing Teaching Performance: Managing Student Feedback Exercises, Lily Kong
Editorial: Enhancing Teaching Performance: Managing Student Feedback Exercises, Lily Kong
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
When I was an undergraduate at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the mid-1980s, student feedback exercises were introduced. They were manually conducted via pen-and-paper mode, with administrative staff taking about 10±15 minutes at the start of a lecture class every day in a designated week (usually the last or penultimate week of semester), distributing questionnaires and collecting the completed forms in boxes to have the responses scanned and totted up. This represented the ®rst time that a systematic data collection and feedback mechanism was instituted for students. Since then, various innovations have been introduced to manage student feedback …
Introduction: Are We Requiring What Our Students Most Need?, Michael Alan Netzley
Introduction: Are We Requiring What Our Students Most Need?, Michael Alan Netzley
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Why devote a special issue to the topic of writing requirements for business students?The answer, I believe, is relatively simple: any such requirement mustreflect what business professionals should know and do in a knowledge economy.Because communication practices are changing radically, our requirements, too,must be reexamined. This issue provides a forum for such reexamination.