problem in educational system in HK

The educational system in Hong Kong is examination orientated. I am not saying that examination is a bad thing, because sometime students really need some exam or quiz to stimulate their studying.

However, the result of the exam is too important that we cannot just treat it as a motivation. Some of the examinations like HKALE and HKCEE (in the old educational system) can affect people's whole life. So, it is easy to understand why students focus on the result but not what they have learnt.

For those students who prepare the open exam, they might focus more on examination skill rather than the knowledge. This also leads to many students want to go to tutorial classes, this cost a lot and a little bit time consuming. Beside learn the skill, students need to remember, just memorize what the marking scheme says.

Another thing is about the curriculum. The subjects provided by the universities in Hong Kong are very limited. Back to the secondary school, we need to select stream in F.4 (in the old system). After F.4, I don't have music lesson, art lesson. The only lessons I had were those with open exam. I think this cannnot help develop the creativity and imagination of students.

 

survey project reflection

It is my first time to creat a online survey. Of course, it is also my first time using Japanese in the survey. I know more about the popularity of animation in Japan and how Japanese look at animation. As there are not many respondants, so the survey cannot present the whole idea clearly, we cannot say it is the result of all Japanese. But still, we know more and some of the answer is quite similar to our expectation.

  At the beginning, when Yuuki and I was designing the questions, we faced some problems. We wanted to ask many things, but at the same time, we wanted to asked something more deeply. At the end, we just divided our survey into parts. As it is a survey, we did not hope to have many opened questions, so it was not easy to think many choices and thus the questions changed for many times.

In the future project, if I can have changes based on this survey, I would like to consider more before start thinking the questions. In this survey, we actually assumed all respondants have watched animation before. Then, we started creating questions. About finish, we start thinking what if those respondants really have not watched before, should we separate them? But, we didn't want to change the questions again, so we just assigned some questions for them to answer. So, I hope I can consider each case clearly before start creating the questions next time.

Another thing I want to improve is the connection between questions. As the website cannot show one question only and it can't skip some questions, it made the result a little bit odd. For example, in Q3, if you answer yes, you have to move to Q4, if no, move to Q10. The number of answer in Q4 is more than the number of respondants answer yes in Q3. So, I think they got confused in answering which questions as we just had some instruction after the answer.

I think there is one technical limitation. Two websites were provided for us to upload the questions, as we had 12 questions, I heard from my friend that one of the website cannot accept more than 10 questions (I don't know is true or not, but it is the reason we use the other website. So, we assume it is true^^). But in our original survey, for the answer of "other", we want respondants to type more, to specify the answers. However, the website we used don't allow this. It provides either MC or opened question. So, we delete that part.

All in all, I learn many in this project. I know more about animation in Japan, how to creat a survey online and of course I learn Japanese.

P.S: the website of our survey: http://enq-maker.com/d0wgkBW

The presentations of the survey (1)

On 31/3, we have two presentations about their respective topic in class. The first one is about music and the second one is about お宅.

I don't familiar with both of the topics. I love listening music, but I seldom search music by myself and I won't search for the "new song/music". I only know the song by friends' recommandations or from animation. So, I know very little about music culture, even the singers, I may just know their names.

In the presentation of Yuri san and Joeie san, they really introduced many things to me, for example different type of music. Two results from the question a little bit surprise me. The first one is the language of the songs that Japanese listen to. Of course, I expect they mainly listen to Japanese, but I thought they will also listen more other languages. The second one was raised in the class, about the most familiar Japanese Pop music acts. I really think that Ayumi Hamasaki is the most famous female singer in Japan, I was shocked about the result.


About お宅, again I know very little about it. Few years ago, this term started appear in Hong Kong with the movie and tv series (電車男), but I didn't watch either one. The presentation of Kumo san, Phillip san and Bule san introduce me お宅 and after that, I have searched more about this.

お宅 describes people who are an expect of some aspects, and surprisingly, the origin meaning of お宅 can be use as you under certain circumstance.  I know that there is misunderstanding of お宅 in Hond Kong and in Hong Kong, お宅 has a negative meaning. But actually, it should be used naturally in Japan.


From these two presentations, I know more about two unfamiliar topic and they lead me to do some research in order to clarify my mind.