INTRODUCTION

Education in Malaysia is an on-going effort dedicated to developing the potential of

individuals holistically in an integrated manner so that their development, based on
the belief in God, is intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced and
harmonies. Such

an

effort is designed

to

produce

Malaysian

who

are

knowledgeable, possessing high moral standards and are responsible and capable
of achieving a high level of personal well-being as well as being able to contribute to
the harmony and betterment of the society and the nation large.
Malaysia education attempts to form and nurture a human being to become a whole
complete and holistic individual in which is belief in God grace and well-equipped
with strong humanistic characters that pose an integrated manner rooting from a
balance of intellectual, spirit, emotion and the physical. All the focuses from national
curricular designations till to the basic floor foundation of school teaching process
must be able to access and embrace the big picture of national philosophy.
As a result, in the 1998 the New Secondary Curriculum (KBSM) as a continuation of
the New Primary Curriculum (KBSR) was launched. The planning of KBSM is meant
to help students to develop their intellectual, spiritual, emotions, as well as physical
potentials in comprehensive and integrated manner with high moral values (Hassan,
1996). However, there was plenty of ineffectiveness of KBSM educational execution
noted till raising the awareness of new planning scheme to shift Malaysia
Educational System more aligning with National Education Philosophy.

MALAYSIA NEW EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, KSSR, KSSM AND KSSR

During the year of 2010, Malaysia Educational Minister, Datuk Muhyiddin announced
and introduced the new curriculum system KSSR into Primary School, the pioneer
batch of students under the transformational new scheme of education system are
primary one students from year of 2011.At the same time, KSSM as the continuation
of KSSR was introduced to Secondary school, the pioneer batch of secondary
students are the Form one students from year of 2012.
KSSR and KSSM are the new curriculum scheme with more likely interpretation of
our national educational philosophy and literally contribute a better pragmatic
implementation to actualize educational goal, whereby it is a formulation in needed
to amend the weaknesses of KBSR and KBSM which is over exam-oriented and
teacher-centered curriculum scheme.
This is the reason of why it is referred as a transformational educational system in
Malaysia. The principles of these two curriculums primordially intend to shift from
teacher-centered teaching to students-centered teaching and emphasis on inquirybased learning.
Under the system, the public exam for primary school, UPSR and the PMR for
secondary school will be abolished. All the evaluation and assessment shift from
summative assessment to the formative assessment. KSSR and KSSM are
conductive curriculums to enhance the pragmatism of national educational
philosophy which pervasively exercise and practice in school. The scheme
assessment of KSSR and KSSM not restricted to individual curriculum performance
only, whilst it is embrace the significant of students involvement in physical activities
as well as the healthiness of psychology. Each student is evaluated and improved
their performance via criterion-based assessment with six bands, Band 1 (the lowest
achievement) to Band 6, (the highest achievement). Consequently, the new
curriculum of KSSR and KSSM demonstrates a blue print document to direct our
national education in achieving the principles and goals of our national educational
philosophy.