Psychology and counseling responsibilities for continuous assessment in Malaysian school system

摘要

Continuous assessment with its guidance-oriented characteristics in students teaching and learning is integral in determining the quality of students’ performance, and professional responsibility for technical input is ideal. Mass failure at all levels of Malaysian education appears to be the most credible claim for failing standards in education and this suggests significant inadequacies in the management of continuous assessment. To avoid high risk of abnormal development of our youngsters, psychology counseling in all spheres of our human development is indispensable. Hence, effective implementation of continuous assessment to curtail mass failure in Malaysian school system needs to be exposed.