Introduction
Certificate in Examination and Assessment in Education (CEA in Edn) is part of the SkillsFuture for Educators (SFEd) Professional Development roadmap designed to support in-service teachers in their continuing professional growth in the area of Assessment
Literacy.
Programme Structure and Objectives
CEA in Edn was designed to develop teachers’ thought leadership in making decisions and recommendations in their context to address diverse assessment issues both in their daily classroom assessments and school-wide approach to assessment. It is
anchored on reflective practice enriched by critical engagement with established and new strategies and methods generated from the programme content, interactions with fellow educators and performance in the assignments after the completion of the
instructional units of each module. It aims to:
- help teachers to explore and apply established and new assessment strategies and methods on individual students, class assessments and level-wide implementations;
- integrate new approaches in their own assessment practices; and
- demonstrate their professional development as reflective leaders and informed practitioners in assessment within the teaching fraternity.
Criteria for Certificate Award
Based on the SkillsFuture model, the programme comprises stackable modules to give teachers greater flexibility to choose the modules to attend within 3 years from attending the first module. To be awarded the Certificate for CEA in Edn, teachers would
have to complete two core and one elective modules and the Capstone Assignment within the 3 years validity period. This adds up to 104 hours for the whole programme.
Find out more details on the Capstone Assignment.
Upon completion of all required modules and the Capstone Assignment, teachers will be awarded with a hardcopy certificate.
Modules Offered under the Certificate Programme
The list of CEA in Edn modules is shown in the table below.
| Type of Module | Module Title | Number of Days |
|---|
| Core | Interpretation of Test Data | 3 |
| Core | Making Sense of Quality School-Based Assessment | 3 |
| Elective | Test Item Review for Primary English Language | 1 |
| Elective | Mathematics (Primary) – Designing Quality Mathematics Items | 1 |
| Elective | Mathematics (Primary) – Understanding Assessment Demand | 1 |
| Elective | Mathematics (Secondary) – Quality Assurance in Marking | 1 |
| Elective | Mathematics (Secondary) – Understanding Assessment Demand | 1 |
| Elective | Chinese Language (Primary) – Reading Comprehension MCQ Items | 1 |
| Elective | Chinese Language (Primary) – Reading Comprehension Open-ended Items | 1 |
| Elective | Chinese Language (Secondary) – Reading Comprehension MCQ Items | 1 |
| Elective | Chinese Language (Secondary) – Reading Comprehension Open-ended Items | 1 |
| Elective | Malay Language (Secondary) – Assessing Reading Comprehension Skills in Malay Language | 1 |
| Elective | Tamil Language (Secondary) – Assessing Reading Comprehension Skills in Tamil Language | 1 |
| Elective | English Language (Secondary) Reading – Assessing Reading Skills in the English Language Classroom (Express / Normal Academic) | 2 |
| Elective | English Language (Secondary) Writing – Assessing Writing Skills in the English Language Classroom (Express / Normal Academic) | 2 |
| Elective | Literature (Secondary) – Assessing Literature in English in the Upper Secondary Classroom (Express / Normal Academic) | 2 |
| Elective | Science (Primary) | 2 |
| Elective | Social Studies (Secondary) – Assessing Critical Thinking in Upper Secondary Social Studies: Back to Basics (Source-Based Case Study) | 2 |
| Elective | Social Studies (Secondary) – Assessing Critical Thinking in Upper Secondary Social Studies: Back to Basics (Structured-Response Questions) | 2 |
| Elective | Malay Language (Primary) – Reading | 2 |
| Elective | Tamil Language (Primary) – Reading | 2 |
Please write to SEAB_Training@SEAB.gov.sg if you have questions about the programme.