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17th Sept: From High-Stakes to Formative: Malaysia's Assessment Balancing Act
In this week's episode, Tim Burnett chats with Dr Shafiza Mohamed, Exams Officer and Head of Assessment Innovations at the Malaysian Examinations Council (MEC). They discuss:
Why Malaysia is shifting from high-stakes summative examinations towards more formative, teacher-led assessment — and how parents and society are responding to that change
How AI and digital literacy skills need to be woven into assessment itself, and whether chatbots could one day feature in high-stakes exams
The challenges of moving school-level exams from paper to digital across Malaysia's urban and rural communities…
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