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Implementation of Assessment for Learning in Hong Kong Classrooms

The Curriculum Development Council (2001) has recommended in Learning to Learn: The Way Forward in Curriculum that schools in Hong Kong should review their existing assessment mechanism and put more emphasis on Assessment for Learning (AfL) in their daily teaching practice. This case study attempts to explore teachers’ opinions about the school-based AfL policy as well as students’ comments on the AfL teaching and learning strategies in the everyday classroom of the subject school. The data shows that teachers and students generally possessed a positive attitude toward the AfL rationale. However, some teachers expressed a view that the AfL policy would be more effective if the school administrators could have sought teachers’ opinions before the actual implementation of the new assessment policy.