HKDSE INTEGRATED SCIENCE

SBA ARRANGEMENTS

FOR 2019 & 2020 EXAMS

Ms Grace Yau

Manager, HKEAA

18 Oct 2018

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2018 SBA MODERATION REPORT

School circular

dated 17 Sept

2018 (http://www.hkeaa.edu.

hk/DocLibrary/Circular

s/HKDSE/2019HKDSE-

SBA-Schedule.pdf)

Available

starting from

26 September

2018

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2019 EXAM:

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS & SCHEDULE

Annex 2 of the circular (dated 17 Sept 2018)

Submission period: 4 -25 Jan 2019

On-line mark submission

Requirements:

Student work:

ALL reports used for assessment of Area B

Teacher Document:

List of Experiments performed in S5 and S6

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SAMPLE OF LIST OF S.5 & S.6 EXPERIMENTS

Sample on p.4 of handout

Softcopy will be emailed to each teacher via DC

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POINTS TO NOTE WHEN INPUTTING MARKS

3 mark boxes for each Area for each Year for each Student

Accept 0 to 10 marks (integer only) with ‘0 mark’ meaning

extremely poor performance.

If the number of assessment marks entered for a student for an

ability area exceeds the minimum requirement, the system will

automatically average out the marks in the calculation of the

final SBA mark of that student.

F = fail to complete the task

E = exempted from SBA (permission by HKEAA sought and

granted)

P = Serious Plagiarism Cases

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PLAGIARISM – PREVENTION; HANDLING;

CONSEQUENCES 1. Preventing plagiarism in SBA:

Asking students to sign a declaration form (available at http://www.hkeaa.edu.hk/en/sba/forms/); ONE form for ALL subjects

2. Handling plagiarism cases http://www.hkeaa.edu.hk/en/SBA/faqs/faq_02.html

3. Consequence The levels of penalty to be imposed for proven P cases are as

follows:

Zero marks will be given to the task in which serious plagiarism is proven. In addition, a penalty of downgrade by one level will be imposed in the subject concerned

For extreme cases, e.g. repeated offence of plagiarism, candidates may be subject to disqualification from the subject(s) concerned or the whole examination

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REMINDERS

FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL

EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (SEN)

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• Accommodation • Applying for exemption (if applicable)

ACCOMMODATION

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EXEMPTION

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Supporting documents

REMINDER

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• Contact the SBA Team of the HKEAA for questions related to logistical arrangements.

• Discuss with your District Coordinator for subject-related questions.

• Explain to the student the accommodation, or why accommodation is not necessary.

• Mark in the student work the kind of accommodation / exemption involved if being selected for submission to the HKEAA.

SCHOOL-BASED ASSESSMENT SYSTEM (SBAS)

OPERATION GUIDE The work flow remains unchanged.

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https://www.hkdse.hkeaa.edu.hk/HKEAA/faces/home

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REMINDERS

Only student work with marks submitted to

HKEAA are required.

The work for each student should be zipped to

one single file if the work contains more than one

file.

If need scanning, advise students to use A4 paper to do their homework.

If one or two reports were lost, mark in the first page of the student work file, e.g. Chan Tai Man has lost report #2 and #5.

Attach questions/guidelines in the student work file for the convenience of checking by District Coordinators.

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REMINDERS

Suggested file naming convention:

[Subject Abbreviation] [(6-digit Student

Document Number)].[File extension]

e.g. INTSC(123456).zip INTSC (362880).pdf

INTSC (246800).doc

Student Document Number is the beginning 6

digits of the identity document of a student.

The system only accepts file formats of zip, pdf,

txt, doc, docx, rtf, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, csv,

mp4, mp3, mpg, wmv, avi, jpg or tif.

The file size limit for each student’s work file is

15MB.

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REMINDERS

Teacher Document for Integrated

Science, means S5+S6 List of

Experiments performed.

Please make use of the template

provided at HKEAA website:

SBA Forms SBA Mark Templates

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REQUEST FOR A CHANGE OF STUDENT(S) FOR

WORK SUBMISSION

If the work of any chosen student cannot be located, or involves

any irregularities (such as mark penalty being imposed due to

partial plagiarism or late submission), the Subject Panel should

contact the SBA Team at 3628 8068.

Subject Panel should download the ‘Change of Student Work

for SBA Work Submission’ form from ‘Mark Reports’ under

‘Reports’ menu.

Complete the section for the school and fax the form to 3628 8091.

After confirming the arrangement, the HKEAA will fax the

amended form to the school for school’s record.

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SBA ARRANGEMENTS FOR 2020 EXAM

One-off submission of S5 and S6 SBA marks in

S6 (2020)

Email the List of Experiments performed

in S5 to DCs in May/June 2019

Teachers are to remind S5 students of the

importance of proper keeping of the assessed

reports, as their work may have to be submitted

when marks are submitted in S6

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SUPPORT & TRAINING FOR

IS TEACHERS

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2018/19

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Month Event 18 Oct 2018 SBA Teachers Conference

16 Nov 2018 Briefing Session on 2018 HKDSE IS Exam (E246, EDB Kowloon Tong) (http://edblog.hkedcity.net/is4to6/2018/10/09/pdp20181116/)

4 – 25 January 2019

SBA Mark submission for 2019 Exam

- Marks on Ability Area A and Ability Area B in S.5 and S.6

- Marked reports used for assessment of Ability Area B of six students (selected by HKEAA)

16 Jan 2019 (2:30-5:30pm)

[tentative]

Mid-year Group Meeting [E246, EDB Kowloon Tong ] - Dissemination of newly developed sample tasks

- Updates on SBA related matters

- Group meeting with District Coordinators

30 March 2019 (Sat)

DSE Integrated Science Examination

April 2019 On-screen Marking of IS Papers [Markers’ Mtg on 11 April 2019 (tentative)]

May/June 2019 Submission of S5 SBA list of experiments (for 2020 Exam) to DCs by email

June 2019 (tentative)

Sharing on Learning and Teaching Strategies

10 July 2019

(tentative) Release of 2019 HKDSE Results

SUPPORT FROM DISTRICT COORDINATORS Teachers who are new to teaching this subject are

encouraged to submit an Assessment Plan (p.5 of Handout) to DCs for comments

List of Worksheets (p.6-8 of Handout) suitable for practical work for teachers’ reference

Sample tasks developed in 2012-2017 (list of tasks on p. 8 of Handout)

Teachers need to attend a mid-year group meeting (16 Jan 2019, Wed)

Teachers and/or School Coordinators may discuss with District Coordinator if needs arise

District Coordinators may visit the school of his/her group for professional sharing and collecting feedback

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THANK YOU !