Following the within-school standardization meeting, "Inter-school sharing" meetings are organized by SBA District Coordinators.
"Within-school standardization" means that if there is more than one subject teacher teaching the subject to the same cohort of students in the school, it is necessary for the teachers involved to agree on the criteria for awarding marks so that the same standard of assessment is applied to all students.
All the teachers involved in the assessment, however, need to go through a series of within-school and inter-school standardization meetings and discussions organized by the HKEAA to help them to develop a clear understanding of the shared expectations of what students at particular levels of performance should be able to do to achieve a certain grade.
Currently, in the case of English language SBA in Hong Kong, the following methods, within-school standardization, inter-school sharing, and HKEAA's statistical moderation, are adopted by the HKEAA (2016, p. 22) to ensure the reliability and consistency of SBA scores across schools.
This school-level standardization ensures that all the teachers involved in SBA in the school will achieve a clear understanding of the shared expectations of what students at particular levels should be able to do in order to achieve a certain score.
The discussions at this school-level standardization meeting may lead to adjustments to scores across classes in the school.
Specifically, teachers teaching the same cohort of students bring samples of video-recorded assessments of different levels (e.g., the three highest and the three lowest assessments) to the school-level standardization meeting where the video-recorded assessments are shown and discussed.
To the extent that policies are in place, they are highly variable across schools suggesting little standardization in faculty understanding and/or institutional implementation.
When the students occupy their school, ostensibly to protest standardization and privatization -- words they pronounce with venomous conviction, even if it's not clear that they know what they're talking about -- they seem to be acting out a ritual of adolescence rather than taking a political stand.
Although there is a growing interest and commitment in teaching ethics to medical students in Saudi schools; there is lack of standardization in teaching and evaluation methods.
