Abstract
Recently, quality education is high up in the educational agenda of Macao schools. Students should be willing to learn, able to learn, as well as happy to learn. There is a need to examine students' ability variations, curriculum design and im plementation, and systematic performance assessment so that students' inner potential can be maximally developed.
Through action research, it is hoped that schools can work together with the researcher to experiment practices of individually-configured education for purposes of teacher professional development. Based on Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, par ticipating schools agreed that the main purpose of action research is to develop a school-based system assessing students' spectrum of multiple intelligences so as to provide formative information for the implementation of quality education. This paper ou tlines the design aspects of this School-based Multiple Intelligences Learning Evaluation System (SMILES). It draws attention to the participating schools on the issues pertinent to the success of the study. This paper is a proposal written to inform scho ols interested in this project on the scope and commitments. The research findings of the individual schools are to be reported in due course.
| Keywords: | quality education; action research; teacher professional development |
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