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TSA Results Expose Alarming Trend: Hong Kong Primary School Students Struggle with Chinese Language, Forgetting the Basics in Favour of Rote Memorization

by Catherine Williams - Chief Editor

▲ Among the fresh primary three students who took part in the territory-wide systematic assessment (TSA) this year, I heard that their performance in liberal arts was worse than before the COVID-19 epidemic. (File picture)

After more than a year of comprehensive resumption of classes, the performance of fresh primary three students who participated in the Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) this year in the listening and speaking subjects of liberal arts is still inferior to that before the COVID-19 epidemic. This includes the fact that some students failed to respond appropriately to the opinions of group members during the oral examination. and failure to grasp the main information of the short film.

Looking at the TSA report for Chinese language subjects, in terms of speech evaluation, the junior students who participated in 2019 before the epidemic were rated as “able to talk to group members on topics and respond appropriately”; however, when the first session was resumed last year, it was at the time of the comprehensive In the early days of class resumption, a small number of students just “talked to themselves” during “group conversations” and failed to achieve the purpose of the conversation; until this year, there are still a small number of students who “failed to respond appropriately to the opinions of group members” and were unable to tell stories by looking at pictures. , there are also a small number of students who do not allocate time appropriately, and the ending of the story is relatively simple.

The audio-visual short film fails to grasp the main information

In addition, in this year’s paper-and-pencil assessment of audio-visual information, the report states that some students continue to “fail to grasp the main information of the short film.” Compared with 2019, “most students can understand the simple information in the audio-visual information, including the main points of the content, etc., and Answered most questions”, the performance was obviously inferior.

In addition, the report stated that in 2019, students’ performance in the reading area continued to be satisfactory, but this year students were rated as performing slightly worse in mastering the main information of practical texts. Some students also occasionally made typos in their writing, such as “forgot” instead of “busy note” and “awards” instead of “praises”.

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