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The P5 teachers of this school in Yuen Long would like to put more efforts into helping their students improve their read-aloud skills.  Read-aloud skills are tested at TSA and the teachers reflected that when the students do it in class, they usually have problems tackling less familiar words and thus hesitate frequently during reading, and many cannot read sentences in a passage with appropriate pauses, word stress and intonation.  So the teachers decided to use the E-P-I-E (Evaluation-Planning-Implementation-Evaluation) framework to analyse  the problems and try out different strategies to improve the read-aloud skills of the students. They started with an evaluation of the current situation by using a diagnostic test.  Then they planned immediate remedial actions and worked out a longer term plan.

In order to ensure their actions were relevant to the needs of the students, the teachers based their decision-making process on specific sets of data.  For an evaluation of the project, the teachers collected ongoing student work, e.g. video recording of student performance, pre- and post-test results, and other relevant written work to measure the progress of students, used student questionnaires to learn about the views of students on the usefulness of the learning activities, and finally quantitative analysis of the results from the pre- and post-tests. In addition to that, the test results were analyzed to gauge the effectiveness of the measures taken.

 

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