Teachers’ Competency in Implementation of Classroom Assessment in Learning

Abstract

This paper discusses teachers’ competencies in implementing classroom assessment in Malaysia primary schools. Source of skilled manpower in education is the main agenda of Malaysia in achieving the goals of Vision 2020. Education Ministry decided to making the values available on teachers’ competency as a priority. Teachers’ competence is a very important factor in implementing current and new policies in education. A good level of teachers’ competence can realize the purpose and policy of education that is set up in the assessment. This assessment process requires all subject teachers as an implementer for collecting evidence about student learning. The main focus of this paper is on teachers’ competencies in implementing classroom assessment by outlining the goal of making high-potential teachers as implementers to achieve the objectives of classroom assessment. The objective of this assessment is to get an overview of student performance and teachers can improve and make judgments about learning.