Literature is assessed mainly through tests and examinations. Students are expected to sit for their common tests every term and teachers will use these tests to assess students' understanding. However, students are also given what is known as "mastery tests" every week through the term whereby students will be tested on a different subject each week. Therefore, teachers also use these mastery tests to assess students.
Informally, understanding of literature is mostly assessed through assignments completed in class. As students in the school are rather weak academically, struggle with English language and are unmotivated, teachers avoid giving students homework as students do not seem to complete their homework on a regularly basis. As such, short, timed writing assessments are given to students in class as a way for teachers to assess students' learning and writing ability.
This is an interesting observation ... " As students in the school are rather weak academically, struggle with English language and are unmotivated, teachers avoid giving students homework as students do not seem to complete their homework on a regularly basis." - now how does that work?
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