The openness of college entrance examination composition scoring is far more important than the score
After the publication of a full score essay entitled "Living on a Tree" in the Chinese Zhejiang Volume of the College Entrance Examination this year, it caused a heated discussion on the Internet. All Chinese who can read Chinese and can write a few Chinese characters have an innate impulse to judge the essay questions and composition of the college entrance examination each year. Whether it is college entrance examination essay questions that have become a hot search every year, or people outside the field writing college entrance examination compositions, it is a manifestation of this kind of public participation. The Zhejiang College Entrance Examination composition review team leader reviews the full score composition with his real name, instead of the "full score composition" that is difficult to distinguish between true and false on the market, it is difficult not to become the focus of public discussion.
As a middle school Chinese teacher, I certainly have my own views on this college entrance examination composition. But this article is not written for a public demonstration of composition correction, nor is it even for discussing the current college entrance examination composition scoring standards. I just want to ask everyone who is concerned about this composition: you have read the detailed description of the composition grading process through any channel before ("The first teacher only gave 39 points, but the next two teachers gave 55 High scores") composition for the college entrance examination?
I think the answer for many people is "no". This is the question I want to talk about today.
The college entrance examination has been restored for more than forty years, and the examination paper correction process is not open to the public, and the scoring staff themselves have to sign a confidentiality agreement. There was once a province where a grading standard was secretly passed on to the law. This approach is reasonable, because the annual college entrance examination is a public event that the whole society pays attention to. Although the scoring process is strict and fair, if many details are completely transparent and open to the society, it will cause countless disputes. , It will even cause group incidents of parents who are suffering from anxiety. From this perspective, the confidentiality of the college entrance examination marking process is a political task that cannot be ignored.
In this context, when we look at the publication channels and the discussions that this Zhejiang full score essay has triggered, we will realize what a remarkable (even milestone) progress this is. Is this announcement necessary? of course! From the teacher’s perspective, the more detailed the information, the more they can master the orientation of reading and explaining the test paper; from the student’s perspective, learning not only has the guidance of the high-level exam papers and answers, but also knows the specific grading process. It can make their answers more suitable for the test situation; from the perspective of the proposition and the reader, hearing different voices and feedback will help them adjust their work ideas and make them more accurate and reasonable. Although shortly after the release, this official account push was deleted due to various pressures of controversy, but this just shows that public controversy is not the norm, and it needs to be normal. Controversy becomes normal and even institutionalized, and the announcer will not be so trembling.
Of course, the grading process of the college entrance examination is a rigorous, rigorous and scientific process after all. This process needs to be open, and it needs to be debated on technical issues at the academic level. At the same time, all emotional, purposeful, and non-disciplinary issues should be eliminated. sound. Therefore, I think that if the scoring process and standards of this full-point essay can be published in the form of academic papers, and different articles are allowed to contend, it will be more beneficial to the fairness and justice of the college entrance examination scoring standards and scoring process. In this way, the right to speak in standard setting is actually a shift from concentration to diversion under the scientific premise (discussions of insiders). The academic context can ensure that the participants in the debate are all professionals, and can also give reasons for this more sensitive topic. The protective effect brought by the raising of the threshold reduces the consumption of non-professional public opinion.
The issue of the openness of the college entrance examination scoring revealed by the announcement of the full score composition of the Zhejiang paper is far more significant than the debate about how many points this essay should get. The more timely and long-term the public is, the more test and comment the standards will be able to withstand. Similar to this year's debate, there will be much less.
Wang Shucheng Source: China Youth Daily