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Critique Article 01: Creating thinking schools through authentic assessment: the case in Singapore

Area of education: Business Media

Participants: Students

Aims: Schools build teacher capacity by providing ongoing and sustained professional development on authentic assessment for teachers.

Methods: This article highlights the need to endure engaged learning and lifelong learning. The essentials that need to be made in the assessments are appropriately outlined with its aspects with regards to learning have been given the suitable attention.

Research Question: How crucial has been the step of the government to start focusing more on quality education rather than quantity?

Research Approach or Design: This article critically examined how the goals and objectives of the Singaporean government's “Thinking School” are being successfully carried out.

Main Findings: This article highlights the need to endure engaged learning and lifelong learning.

Conclusion: This article concludes that the creation of schools that would enhance the processes of thinking among the students through teachers and who would prepare them for a practical life would be helpful in order to adjust to the changing needs of the economy.

Critical Analysis

In the article “Creating thinking schools through authentic assessment: the case in Singapore”, the author Koh, Tan and NG have critically examined how the goals and objectives of the Singaporean government's “Thinking School” are being successfully carried out (Koh, Tan & NG, 2012, p.137). As per the authors, this article highlights the importance of the need to equip and prepare the students with the necessary critical skills that would be required of them to adjust to the in the newly changed requisites of achieving job satisfaction and completion in the economy (Koh, Tan & NG, 2012, p.138). The ways of the economy have changed, and the new workforce entering the market needs to be able to adjust to the new needs of the markets. They cannot go on with the ways that were utilized earlier on. The world has dramatically changed (Koh, Tan & NG, 2012, p.138). In fact it is continuously changing. Therefore, there is now higher need to adjust to these changes that are occurring because of a range of different factors. The most critical factor has been that of globalization. Among the many changes it has brought, the most significant one is that now the workforce in any industry needs to have they critical ability (Koh, Tan & NG, 2012, p.139).

In my opinion, the new requirement that underlined by the authors in this article cannot be underestimated. The writers have allotted sufficient attention to the way the government is playing its role (Koh, Tan & NG, 2012, p.140). It sufficiently elaborates how the government successfully realized the need for having a culture that would support the critical skill of “thinking” (Koh, Tan & NG, 2012, p.140). The article identifies how crucial has been the step of the government to start focusing more on quality rather than quantity. In this regard, the article is aptly correct in recognizing that the change is not only necessary in the educational policy, but it is also needed ...