KUALA LUMPUR: The implementation of the Classroom Assessment (PBD) within the School-Based Assessment (PBS) is seen as an important component in building and developing students' potential, specifically with intervention measures.

Senior Education Minister Datuk Dr Radzi Jidin said the new PBD reporting system for each subject has three aspects, namely subject mastery, end-of-year examinations and the student effort component in providing comprehensive reporting on student performance.

"This is because there are situations where parents find that despite working hard, their children do not achieve high scores. Through these three approaches, if the child achieves subject mastery level five (evaluation score), end-of-year test (two) and effort (six), it means that the student is diligent.

"However, there are some topics from the subject that the child could struggle with. So, with PBD reporting, we are able to help the student," he said when appearing on Bernama TV's Ruang Bicara programme aired yesterday.

Compared to the learning system before this, PBD is seen as being able to develop students' potential as a whole due to the fact that their performance was not limited to and measured by examinations only, he said.

"Our children have their own strengths and we need to make sure that we do not 'kill' their potential at too early a stage.

"Before this, if you look at the UPSR (Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah) results, that was it (the results), (with) no intervention measures, and this how situations such as students who can't read despite being in secondary school happen because there are no intervention measures to deal with this," he said.

In April last year, Radzi announced the abolition of the UPSR examination beginning 2021, with focus to be given to the empowerment of PBS while entry into fully residential schools and so on from 2022 onwards will be based on the Special School Admission Assessment (PKSK).

-- BERNAMA