Chin Huan

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Lecturer at University of Science Malaysia

Although the impact of education policy reform could inform future policymaking initiatives, studies on education policy reform of student assessment are considered scarce. This study attempts to scrutinise the drivers, impacts, and challenges of education policy reform of the national assessment system in Malaysia based on policy documents and pre...

Time is a difficult topic for many elementary students. We evaluated the effect of the feedback incorporated in online Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment (CDA) on students’ achievement in this topic by conducting a sequential explanatory mixed method case study which involved 125 Grade Five students from the six classrooms in six Malaysian elementary...

This paper describes the process of developing and validating an online cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) with ordered multiple-choice (OMC) items for assessing pupils’ mastery of attributes related to ‘Multiplication of Time’ and reports the empirical evidence regarding item quality, validity of the cognitive models and the reliability of the...

Years and Centuries are the measurement units used to quantify a longer time duration, while subtraction is the operation required to determine the duration based on two given time points. However, subtraction of time is a difficult skill to be mastered by many elementary students. To identify the root cause of the student's failure in performing s...

‘Parallel and Perpendicular Lines’ is an important topic that serves as a basis for the learning of a more advanced geometric concept in later years. Yet, this topic is hard to master by the students. To pinpoint students’ weaknesses in this topic, this study sought to develop a cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) to assess students’ mastery of ‘...

This study focused on capturing the research landscape of past studies related to mathematics problem solving in elementary education from 1969 to 2021 through a bibliometric analysis. All the 159 bibliographic data involved were extracted from the Scopus database. The findings show an increasing trend in publication and citation over the years. Th...

Solving word problems involving 'Time' is an important skill but poor mastery of the skill among elementary students has often been reported in the literature. In addition, the available diagnostic tools in the literature might be less efficient for identifying the various errors made by many students in solving word problems. Thus, an online probl...

Mathematics learning is illustrated as a developmental progression in the direction of concrete-to-abstract by educational theorists. Various studies rooted in this notion were conducted in the past. This study aimed to profile the landscape of research rooted in this notion which was published from 1968 to 2021. The bibliographic data of 425 relat...

The achievement gaps existed among the three types of Malaysian elementary schools with different instruction mediums. Thus, this study sought to compare the types of errors made by the low-performing students from different school types in solving word problems involving higher-order thinking skills by conducting a multiple case study. The study i...

Diagnosing students’ mistakes in solving word problems using Newman’s Error Analysis (NEA) is time-consuming. To address this limitation, NEA was incorporated in the Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment (CDA) with Ordered Multiple Choice (OMC) word problem testlets developed in this study for assessing students’ attribute mastery level in solving word p...

The cultural diversity of Malaysia gives a way to three types of public primary schools which vary in terms of cultural and medium of instruction. This study aimed to explore the difference between the performance of grade four primary students from the rural region of Malaysia in solving word problems involving measurement formula and higher order...

Cognitive diagnostic assessment (CDA) is an essential classroom assessment that could provide high-specific diagnostic information. To support teachers' practical implementation of CDA in the mathematics classrooms, this study sought to develop an online CDA for assessing students' skills mastery of ‘relationship of time'. The study involved 90 gra...

The technological evolution brings about integration of technology in feedback practice which attempts to extend and refine learners’ understanding. A wide range of studies on electronic feedback have been conducted in the past. This study sought to profile the research landscape on electronic feedback in educational context from 1991 to 2021. The...

Cognitive Diagnostic Assessment (CDA) is an alternative assessment which can give a clear picture of pupils’ learning process and cognitive structures to education stakeholders so that appropriate instructional strategies can be designed to tailored pupils’ needs. Coincide with this function, the Ordered Multiple-Choice (OMC) items were incorporate...