Assessment
Explore the skills and processes pupils develop in Primary Science, and find out how they are assessed across each term.
Assessment
SKILLS AND PROCESSES
Pupils are provided with opportunities to apply learned concepts and skills, by engaging the surrounding environment and its processes and phenomena, for the purpose of inquiry, awareness and self-development.
Skills
Observing
This is the skill of using our senses to gather information about objects or events. This also includes the use of instruments to extend the range of our senses.
Comparing
This is the skill of identifying the similarities and differences between two or more objects, concepts or processes.
Classifying
This is the skill of grouping objects or events based on common characteristics.
Using apparatus and equipment
This is the skill of knowing the functions and limitations of various apparatus, and developing the ability to select and handle them appropriately for various tasks.
Communicating
This is the skill of transmitting and receiving information presented in various forms - verbal, pictorial, tabular or graphical.
Inferring
This is the skill of interpreting or explaining observations or pieces of data or information.
Predicting
This is the skill of assessing the likelihood of an outcome based on prior knowledge of how things usually turn out.
Analysing
This is the skill of identifying the parts of objects, information or processes, and the patterns and relationships between these parts.
Generating possibilities
This is the skill of exploring all the alternatives, possibilities and choices beyond the obvious or preferred one.
Evaluating
This is the skill of assessing the reasonableness, accuracy and quality of information, processes or ideas. This is also the skill of assessing the quality and feasibility of objects.
Formulating hypothesis
This is the skill of making a general explanation for a related set of observations or events. It is an extension of inferring.
Processes
Processes are complex operations which require the use of several skills.
Creative Problem Solving
Analysing a problem and choosing an innovative and relevant solution to alter a problem situation.
Decision-Making
Establishing and applying criteria to select from among seemingly equal alternatives with consideration to consequences and values.
Investigation
Formulating questions or hypotheses and creating fair methods that are then carried out to verify the stated hypotheses.
Assessment Framework
Assessment schedule and weightings by level and term
Level | Term 1 | Term 2 | Term 3 | Term 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Primary 3/4/5 | Bite-sized Assessment 1 (10%) | Bite-sized Assessment 2 (15%) | Bite-sized Assessment 3 (15%) | Semestral Assessment (60%) |
Primary 6 | Bite-sized Assessment 1 | Bite-sized Assessment 2 | Preliminary Examinations (100%) | Primary School Leaving Examination |
Important Note:
Any student who is absent for a weighted assessment needs to produce a Medical Certificate to cover him for that day. Marks will be pro-rated accordingly.
Primary Science Syllabus
Please click HERE (opens in new tab) for the Primary Science Syllabus from MOE 2014.
Please click HERE (opens in new tab) for the Primary Science Syllabus from MOE 2023.