PBS ditangguhkan pelaksanaannya, kata ketua pengarah pelajaran

Sistem Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah (PBS) yang menyaksikan guru-guru membuat bantahan Jumaat lepas akan ditangguhkan perlaksanaannya sehingga notis seterusnya.

Ketua Pengarah Pelajaran, Datuk Dr Khair Mohamad Yusof berkata, Jabatan Pelajaran hanya akan memaklumkan keputusan mengenai kajian mengenai PBS selepas Menteri Pelajaran, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin berpuas hati dengan cadangan untuk memperkemaskannya.

Bagaimanapun beliau tidak meletakkan sebarang batas waktu berapa lama kajian itu akan memakan masa.
Perubahan itu akan mengambilkira perolehan terakhir, pandangan guru, bantahan awam termasuk dari Suara Guru Masyarakat Malaysia (SGMM), kata Khair dalam kenyataannya malam ini.

"Kementerian telah mengambil inisiatif untuk mengkaji semula pelaksanaan PBS untuk mengurangkan bebanan kerja guru yang memfokuskan kekerapan memasukkan data, termasuk memasukkan penilaian pencapaian kad laporan pelajar yang dikatakan membebankan," Bernama melaporkan malam ini.

Katanya “taskforce” yang ditubuhkan oleh kementerian baru-baru ini akan mengadakan mesyuarat mingguan untuk mengkaji dan menilai perkembangan memperkemaskan sistem itu.

"Bilik perang PBS juga telah ditubuhkan di peringkat kementerian untuk mengkaji isu yang berkaitan dengan pelaksanaan PBS secara serta merta dan berkesan termasuk menyediakan maklumbalas segera," katanya.

Katanya, kementerian juga sedang bekerja untuk memperkemaskan akses kepada sistem pengurusan PBS untuk memastikan para guru dapat memasuki sistem komputer itu lebih mudah dan berkesan.

Penerangan PBS ke seluruh negara untuk sekolah rendah dan menengah yang bermula Isnin lepas juga telah ditangguhkan dahulu untuk mengelakkan kekeliruan mengenai pelaksanaannya, katanya.

Khair berkata, perolehan dari “workshop” tentang pelaksanaan PBS yang melibatkan guru dan persatuan guru baru-baru ini akan diumumkan segera.

"Ini untuk memastikan setiap elemen dalam pelaksanaan PBS akan menyediakan penilaian holistik ke atas pelajar di samping meringankan bebanan guru dalam pelaksanaannya," katanya.

– 23 Februari, 2014.

School-based assessment on hold until further notice, says education ministry

The controversial School-Based Assessment (SBA) which saw a group of teachers protesting over the weekend has been put on hold until further notice.

Education director-general Datuk Dr Khair Mohamad Yusof said the Education Ministry would only announce the results of the SBA review after Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is satisfied with the proposed improvements.
However, he did not put a time frame on how long the review would take.

The changes would take into account the ministry's latest findings, teachers' grievances, and public outcry, including that of Suara Guru Masyarakat Malaysia (SGMM), Khair said in a report by Bernama tonight.

"The ministry has taken the initiative to re-examine the SBA implementation in order to reduce teachers' workload by focusing on the frequencies of teachers entering the data, including filling in pupils' performance evaluation record cards, which can be burdensome."

He said the recently set-up, ministry-level SBA taskforce would hold a weekly meeting to review and evaluate the progress of each action that scrutinised the system.

"The SBA War Rooms have also been set up at the ministry level to address issues arising in the SBA implementation immediately and effectively, including providing prompt feedback," he said.

He said the ministry was working to improve access to the School-Based Assessment Management System to ensure that teachers could gain access to the system more easily and effectively.

The nationwide SBA briefing for primary and secondary schools, which started on Monday, had also been put on hold to avoid confusion over its implementation, he added.

Khair said the findings of workshops on the SBA implementation involving teachers and teachers' unions recently would be announced soon.

"This is to ensure that each element of the SBA implementation will provide a holistic assessment on students while reducing teachers' burden in implementing it," he added.

The SBA was implemented in 2011 starting with Primary One pupils. In 2012, the ministry started implementing the SBA in all Form One classes.

It is part of the government’s efforts to produce more well-rounded students, instead of those purely excelling in studies. There are no annual exams under the SBA.

Each day, teachers grade pupils on a subject based on a six-band spectrum starting from band one understand” (the lowest) to band six “exemplary” (the highest).

The ministry’s statement comes following the Suara Guru Masyarakat Malaysia (SGMM) protest in Bandar Baru Bangi yesterday over the SBA.

The SGMM wanted the SBA scrapped, with schools reverting to the exam-based system.SGMM chief Mohd Nor Izzat Mohd Johari said a memorandum was drawn up and would be handed over to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

"It has been three years since the SBA was implemented and it has led to a greater workload for teachers, even during their personal time.

"The main job of teachers is to teach. But since the SBA was implemented, greater emphasis has been placed on data entry and clerical duties, instead of focusing on the syllabus,” he said on Saturday.

Nor Izzat said teachers faced questions by parents about their children's performance in the school but found it hard to give an explanation.

"Why can’t teachers give an explanation? Simple… today teachers tell parents one thing, but tomorrow, the goal posts are shifted again by the authorities. "

Persatuan Gerakan Kebangkitan Pendidik Kebangsaan (Pendidik) president Normala Sudirman criticised the education ministry for victimising teachers who spoke out against the system.

"Teachers who have dared to criticise the system have been suspended, transferred numerous times and even sacked," she said.

"In the past two weeks, Pendidik has received more than 100 complaints from teachers who have been disciplined by the Education Ministry."

Normala also said there had been cases where teachers were fired without the proper procedures.

– February 23, 2014.

Putrajaya tidak akan mansuhkan PBS kerana rakyat mahukannya, kata Idris Jusoh

Menteri Pendidikan II, Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh (gambar), berkata Kementerian Pendidikan akan tetap meneruskan sistem Pentaksiran Berasaskan Sekolah (PBS) kerana pelaksanaan itu yang dimahukan oleh semua rakyat di negara ini.
Beliau berkata, sebelum ini rakyat Malaysia meminta kementerian menukar sistem pendidikan Malaysia untuk tidak berorientasikan peperiksaan.

"Kita tetap akan meneruskan sistem PBS kerana ini yang dimahukan semua rakyat, kita tidak akan sesekali memansuhkan, hanya menangguhkan untuk penambahbaikan," katanya pada sidang media Pameran Kejayaan Universiti Penyelidikan di Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, hari ini.

Sehubungan itu, katanya, kerajaan akan mengumumkan penambahbaikan sistem PBS pada 1 April depan.
Sebelum ini The Malaysian Insider melaporkan guru dan pengurusan sekolah mendapati sukar untuk menukar kembali PBS kepada sistem peperiksaan.

Ini menjadikan kebanyakan sekolah mengamalkan dua sistem iaitu pada pemulaannya menggunakan PBS untuk menyenangkan Putrajaya dan satu lagi ialah kaedah peperiksaan bagi mengukur prestasi murid.

Mengulas mengenai kesukaran yang dihadapi oleh guru, Idris berkata, pihaknya memahami situasi tersebut.

Katanya, selama tempoh pemansuhan kerajaan akan mengkaji bentuk baru sistem PBS yang tidak membebankan guru.
"Kita faham dan mendengar rintihan guru dan ibu bapa. Kita membuat kajian selama dua tahun mengenai sistem ini. Isteri saya pun guru dan kita selalu berhubung sehingga ke akar umbi bagi menambahbaik sistem.

"Buat masa ini guru jangan runsing dan tidak perlu penerangan tentang sistem ini kerana mereka hanya perlu fokus pada pembelajaran sahaja," katanya.

Beliau berkata, sistem PBS merupakan kaedah yang terbaik untuk dilaksanakan di negara ini.

"Kerajaan sudah memutuskan dan PBS adalah sistem yang terbaik untuk dilaksanakan namun isunya di sini adalah pelaksanaan saja.

"Daripada segi objektif dan dasar PBS tidak ada masalah, hanya kita perlu perkemaskan lagi pelaksanaanya dan ini akan diumumkan pada 1 April ini," katanya.

– 24 Februari, 2014.