OBEC: O-NET restructuring will benefit students

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OBEC: O-NET restructuring will benefit students

BANGKOK, 09 September 2015, (NNT) - The Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) has pushed to restructure its O-NET examination to include more subjective writing, which it believes will help students exercise critical thinking skills.

Dr. Kamol Rodklai, Secretary-General of OBEC, spoke about its plan to introduce a written portion in the Grade 6 Thai language O-NET. The new section would contribute 20% of total marks.

He claims that the new test would better gauge a student's critical thinking and reading comprehension. The OBEC chief argued that subjective writing questions are better than objective answer questions, which can become an exercise in memorization.

Dr. Kamol said he believes that most students are familiar with this type of question and would be well-equipped to handle them. OBEC will soon prepare both teachers and students for the new examination.


-- NNT 2015-09-09

[canopus1969]

will help students exercise critical thinking skills.

I can see a problem there !

[zaphod reborn]

subjective writing, critical thinking skills

that's nice that you will test those

when will you begin teaching those?

who will teach them?

who will be able to correctly mark exams that are not multiple choice?

[thesetat2013]

Seriously! They flunked out miserably on the last few tests given and now they want to make it harder and utilize critical thinking??? Are they crazy??? Thai teachers don't even know how to promote individual thinking let alone critical thinking. Are they planning to teach the teachers first or are they just finding new ways to show the ignorance of the OBEC and Thai education???

[Scott]

I think critical thinking is what most people are born with. It is the school system that removes the ability to think critically.

I have a feeling that critical thinking will be an exercise in writing something that pleases the teachers.

[nikmar]

"OBEC will soon prepare both teachers and students for the new examination."

........as well as cutting the hours the students spend in front of a teacher.

[DavisH]

I believe this was tried before with the A-Net exams. The results were so poor, with many students scoring zero, it was quietly abandoned. I guess the MoE thinks 25-30% (country average) on a multiple choice exam is 'good'.

Let's hope these subjective exams are marked objectively, and not based on what student name appears on the paper! It works well in Australia - entirely written exams - but Thailand?

[thesetat2013]

I think critical thinking is what most people are born with. It is the school system that removes the ability to think critically.

I have a feeling that critical thinking will be an exercise in writing something that pleases the teachers.

If you are right it will be something copied from the internet and if it is in English it will be copied incorrectly.

[lostinisaan]

BANGKOK, 09 September 2015, (NNT) - The Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC) has pushed to restructure its O-NET examination to include more subjective cleaning, which it believes will help students exercise critical corner cleaning skills,when cleaning the school bathrooms. Nobody yet confirmed that the shit has already hit the fan in a way that they had to hire a soldier to get things sorted out.

​ Nostradamus is positive regarding the general's idea(s). He's on his payroll.

[Edgehog net]

Results of O-Net is a statistical joke.

And here is why:

First of all there are different levels of O-Net. End of Prathom-6, end of Mattayom-3 and end of Mattayom-6.

Let's look at Mattayom-3 level:

After graduating Matayom-3 level kids can legally work. This means that if a kid decided to work on a farm or somewhere else. He doesn't gives a shtuff about O-Net. Even if he can pass it he decides not to.

Now lets look at the other group of kids. The ones that wants to continue studying.

And more importantly let's look at the timing and requirements for the M4 level schools.

O-Net is held on the end of the school year (February-March).

But the schools hold enrolledment tests a lot before that (September-October). So by January kids already know about their next school. And guess what those kids don't give any shtuff about it either.

Bottom line: results of O-Net does not reflect the actual level of knowledge of Thai students because students don't care about them.

If the government wants to buff this score they should ban the enrolledment prior to results of O-Net. And they are not going to do that because it is super dumb.