Sunday, July 13, 2008

Exercise Week 1

Hi Everybody....
Your online exercise for Week 1 is 0 since nobody attempts to answer the question. Hope that Week 2's exercise should be completed by Wednesday

1 comment:

hani said...

GROUP MEMBERS
1)ABD. MU'MIN BIN ARIFIN
2)EDORA LEEZIA BINTI ALIAS
3)FADLIYANA BINTI MOHAMAD FATHIL
4)NUR AZIMAH HANI BINTI MOHD SHAHARUDDIN
5)NUR HANNIM BINTI IDRIS

ANSWERS FOR EXERCISE 1

a)From the table, it shows that the children develop their literacy where initially they use drawing and writing to convey idea and slowly later their writing can stand alone to convey meaning. As their ages increase, they expand their thinking through writing and reading.
Meanwhile for reading,(5-7 years old) In this phase, readers use memory of familiar texts to match some spoken words and written words. They realize that print contains a constant message and begin pointing to words. They may comment on pictures but seldom question written text.(7-9 years old) In this phase, they have an increasing bank of sight words including some difficult and subject – specific words. For instance; science, experiment, February and Christmas. They begin to self-correct and develop the ability to read silently.(9-11 years old)They are becoming efficient in the use of the following words identification strategies for constructing meaning. For instance use known parts of words to make sense of the whole words.(11-13 years old) They select appropriate material and adjust reading strategies for different texts and different purposes for example, skimming to search for a specific facts, scanning for a key word. In short, children literacy develop as they grow older.

b) generally, there are two purposes of assessment which are pedagogic and administrative purposes for assessment. For pedagogic purposes, it tends to promote learning. Meanwhile, for administrative is to give information about performance of children and school to education department, administrators and others. They used the information for management and accountability purposes. As for formative assessment, it can identify the pupils' strengths and weaknesses in mastering a certain skill which they have learned. it can also help the teacher to prepare for future teaching and learning session. In summative test, the purpose of this assessment is to determine pupils' achievement based on a few learning units and arrange their grades level accordingly. It also provides information for the stakeholders for instance parents, school administrators and education departments. Besides that, assessment is also important for placement purposes, to encourage and motivate learners as well as for research purposes.