Educators’ conception of student assessment and their practices in an institution of education in MARA

Despite existing research on the educators’ conception of student assessment, few studies have attempted to explore this topic among tertiary education system in Malaysia. In response to this gap, this is a concept paper aimed to explore educators’ conception of student assessment and their practices among MARA Professional College lecturers’ (N = 50). Descriptive quantitative method will be used to investigate the lecturers’ conception of student assessment regarding improvement, school accountability, student accountability and irrelevance as well as the relations between different conceptions purposes and their assessment practices. Acquiring further knowledge on assessment will have profound effect on the teachers’ assessment practice. Related organizations should work together in improving the training related to assessment

Utilization of teacher's development towards lifelong learning: an innovative assessment

In ensuring the students to be provided with the 21st century skills, new form of innovative assessment has been introduced to replace the conventional assessment practice. Such assessment practice also now has been widely implemented. The focus is now on ensuring that the assessment process is in line with the other component of the curriculum. This is done to ensure that individual that can compete at the global level can be produced. Hence, a literature review has been conducted to identify the advantages of implementation of the innovative learning. This paper also discussess a few elements that need to be taken into consideration in ensuring the implementation of the assessment to run smoothly