The New “Student Self-selected Assessments” on the STAR Platform: Organically Integrating Learning, Teaching and Assessment; Enhancing Student Self-learning Effectiveness; Facilitating Students to Move towards Self-directed Learning
STAR is an online learning, teaching and assessment (L-T-A) platform with more than 73 000 assessment items covering the subjects of Chinese Language, English Language and Mathematics from Primary 1 to Secondary 3. With a view to enhancing learning and teaching effectiveness, catering for students’ learning diversity as well as strengthening Assessment for Learning and assessment literacy in an ongoing manner, the coverage of the platform has been extended progressively from Basic Competencies to Full Curriculum of Chinese Language, English Language and Mathematics. The newly added “Student Self-selected Assessments” since October 2025 can further offer schools an additional effective and flexible L-T-A resource, while also providing students with more opportunities for self-learning.
The “Student Self-selected Assessments” possess the following features:
- Flexibility: Students can select related assessment tasks and interactive learning resources according to their own interests and learning targets / progress with a view to enhancing their participation and learning motivation.
- Diversity: The assessment tasks encompass different learning strands / units of Chinese Language, English Language and Mathematics, as well as a variety of themes and question types.
- Instant Feedback: Students can obtain instant assessment results / feedback (tentatively applicable to close-ended questions) upon the completion of assessment tasks. This allows students to better understand their own strengths and weaknesses, while teachers can easily track the progress and effectiveness of students’ self-selected assessments to provide guidance and support.
- Connecting Learning and Assessment: Students can make use of the assessment information / data provided on the platform to establish a personal learning record to review their learning progress, identify their personal learning needs and ways of improvement, and achieve “Self-directed Learning” gradually.
For enquiries on the operation of STAR and its new and enhanced features, please refer to the ‘User Guide‘ for related guides and videos, or contact Hong Kong Education City at 2624 1000 or info@edcity.hk.
