What will be the impact of SBA on students and teachers workloads?
Currently, teachers already engage in ongoing assessment of their students as a routine part of teaching. Under SBA, the reading programme should be an integral part of classroom teaching and learning and not an ‘add-on’. The ongoing assessment will become more structured and formalized because it is part of the assessment system. Once SBA has become a routine part of classroom activities, there should be no significant increase in the workload for students and teachers. In other words, SBA will change the nature of what is done rather than change how much is done. SBA will also help prepare students for external examinations especially the speaking component.
