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This chapter provides the context within which the validation studies – the core of the book – are embedded. The chapter sets the scene for the reader by describing two key issues: major changes to Hong Kong’s education system, particularly secondary education, after the handover in 1997 and both the former and new assessment system used for Hong Kong’s public examinations – the latter to implement full onscreen marking (OSM), effective from 2012. The main purpose of the chapter is to provide the reader with the background necessary to set the research studies that are described in the book in an understandable framework as the story of those studies, undertaken to validate the introduction of OSM in Hong Kong, unfolds.
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Coniam, D., Falvey, P. (2016). The Hong Kong Education and Assessment Systems. In: Validating Technological Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0434-6_1
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