The Exploration of School-Based Assessment (SBA) on Critical Thinking Skills in Science Subject of Malaysian Primary School Students

Abstract

The purposes are to compare the pre-service and in-service teachers on the definition of critical thinking, to investigate the perception of in-service science teachers on critical thinking and to explore the effectiveness of SBA to cultivate and enhance critical thinking skill in students. Two science teachers were interviewed and a few themes have emerged from the data which suggested that the KSSR is viewed as positive to the teachers. However, there are still some challenges of KSSR which mainly concerned on keeping the students’ assessment records.