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| Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon talks to reporters at a meeting to mark his third year in office Monday. / Yonhap |
By Lee Han-soo
Seoul is considering changing school exams to include "open book" tests.
"Innovation inside classrooms leads to an innovation of evaluation," Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon said at a meeting with reporters that marked his third year in office.
"We are considering options to innovate these evaluation procedures such as introducing open book tests."
Open book tests are known to improve thinking and application skills rather than memorizing textbooks and related materials.
Cho added that SMOE had set up a task force to research ways to implement such tests.
"We are thinking about what we can do at the education office level in response to the major innovative changes in the scholastic ability test and the absolute evaluation of school grades," Cho said.
"I have raised the possibility of changing the majority of class tests to include open book tests to the task force currently researching evaluation methods."
SMOE is reportedly planning to issue an improvement suggestion report in August.
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