<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "The Benefits of School-Based Assessment \r\n"^^ . "School-based assessment (SBA) approach in evaluating students’ academic progress was officially introduced by \r\nthe Ministry of Education Malaysia and implemented in-line with the Standards-based Primary School \r\nCurriculum, in stages starting in 2011 as part of Malaysia educational reform. Under this approach, teachers are \r\ngiven greater responsibility to design quality assessments that align with their students’ learning outcomes Hence, \r\nthe objectives of this qualitative case study is focused on how the newly introduced assessment approach has \r\nbenefits the teaching and learning process in evaluating Year 1 academic progress in three urban Chinese primary \r\nschools. Data collected from interviews involving three Year 1 Chinese language teachers found that teachers \r\nhave very positive perspectives towards SBA and that overall both teachers and students have benefited from this \r\nsystem. However, there are also weaknesses that need to be acknowledged and improvements to be made. The \r\nfindings implicate that for SBA to be successful, teachers need to be creative, using varying strategies in their \r\nteaching and exploiting repertoire of methods in assessing their students. Further study on the matter is inevitable \r\nin ensuring the success of SBA’s implementation.; (Abstract by authors)"^^ . "2013" . "9" . "8" . . "Asian Social Science"^^ . . . "19112025" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ""^^ . "Rose Amnah Raof"^^ . " Rose Amnah Raof"^^ . . "Hee Leng"^^ . "Ong"^^ . "Hee Leng Ong"^^ . . ""^^ . "Nurhayati Yusoff"^^ . " Nurhayati Yusoff"^^ . . ""^^ . "Mohamad Sattar Rasul"^^ . " Mohamad Sattar Rasul"^^ . . ""^^ . "Azlin Norhaini Mansor"^^ . " Azlin Norhaini Mansor"^^ . . "Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia"^^ . . . "Open University Malaysia"^^ . . . "Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia"^^ . . . "Universiti Malaya"^^ . . . "Multimedia University Malaysia"^^ . . . . . . "HTML Summary of #910 \n\nThe Benefits of School-Based Assessment \n\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "LB1028 Research - Education"@en . .