The Paper Journalist Cheng Ting and intern Zhou Xiaohang
Recently, this year's Zhejiang College Entrance Examination essay "Living on the Tree" has aroused heated discussion among netizens. Chen Jianxin, the leader of the Zhejiang College Entrance Examination Composition Review Group and associate professor of Zhejiang University, has also attracted attention. Some netizens pointed out that Chen Jianxin once edited the college entrance examination composition and teaching supplementary books, and has given many lectures on college entrance examination composition teaching, and questioned Chen Jianxin's "use of power for personal gain."
In this regard, the Paper (www.thepaper.cn) survey found that Chen Jianxin edited two college entrance examination composition and teaching supplementary books in 2016 and 2019, and lectured on multiple platforms such as Tencent Classroom, Qingyunwei Classroom, and Nanfang Academy. After the "College Entrance Examination Composition Secret Training Course", the price is 199 yuan. In addition, he has also held several lectures on college entrance examination composition for teachers and students in Zhejiang Province.
Does Chen Jianxin's behavior be regarded as a violation or "using power for personal gain"? In an interview with The Paper, a number of education experts said that whether the college entrance examination scorer edited related books and gave lectures violated the regulations, and the Zhejiang Education Examination Institute needed to answer and decide.
Recently, The Paper called the Scientific Research Propaganda Department of Zhejiang Education Examination Institute many times, but no one answered the call.
Regarding the series of discussions triggered by the Zhejiang college entrance examination full score composition, many education experts also mentioned that further education reforms should be carried out to change the way of education evaluation.
Editor-in-chief of college entrance examination composition teaching assistant, lecturer on "college entrance examination composition secret training course" for 199 yuan
The Paper noted that Chen Jianxin has participated in the editing of two college entrance examination composition teaching supplementary books, namely the "Selected Commentary on Essay Articles" published by Zhejiang Education Press in 2016 and the "Practical Training of College Entrance Examination Composition" published in 2019. Both books are currently available for sale on multiple e-commerce platforms.
In a shop on an e-commerce platform, the introduction of "Selected Commentary on Essay Articles" showed that the editor-in-chief of the book, Chen Jianxin, was priced at 30 yuan and the content was divided into five parts; the latest revision published in 2017 added the "2017 "College entrance examination composition scoring standards", and "selected more than 20 examination room essays and full comments."
According to information from another store on the above-mentioned e-commerce platform, one of the two chief editors of "College Entrance Examination Composition Practice Training" is Chen Jianxin, the price is 59 yuan, and the designated purchase method is "Xinhua Bookstores in Zhejiang Province". The book also contains essays and comments on the college entrance examination.
In addition, the "College Entrance Exam Composition Secret Training Course" lectured by Chen Jianxin has been launched on platforms such as Tencent Classroom and Qingyun Micro Classroom, and has been promoted through media platforms in late April 2019.
Screenshot of the related publicity page of "College Entrance Examination Composition Secret Training Course" by Chen Jianxin
The publicity posters of the course include words such as "2019 College Entrance Examination Composition" and "College Entrance Exam Composition Secret Training Course for the Candidates by the Famous Teacher of College Entrance Examination Papers. One of the lecturers introduced that Chen Jianxin has served as the leader of the Zhejiang College Entrance Examination Composition Marking Group since 2000, presided over the annual Zhejiang College Entrance Examination composition review work, and assessed the annual score of the composition. The introduction of the course features in the poster also emphasizes "instructed by the college entrance examination scoring team leader and the scoring teacher", "precisely respond to the score points of the college entrance examination composition", and "writing skills that can be directly applied to the composition of the examination room".
The information in the leaflet shows that the "2019 College Entrance Examination Composition Secret Training Course" was created by Zhejiang Education Publishing Group. The course has a total of 18 sections. The content includes college entrance examination composition scoring and high score points, review questions, ideas, breakthroughs in essay writing, and use of words and sentences. The online course is priced at RMB 199 on the Tencent Classroom and Southern Academy platforms.
In addition, Chen Jianxin has held college entrance examination composition lectures for Zhejiang teachers and students many times.
According to the official website of the Education Bureau of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Chen Jianxin gave a 2019 college entrance examination composition lecture to all high school teachers in Deqing County at Deqing No. 1 Middle School in Huzhou in March 2019. According to the official website of the People's Government of Cangnan County, Zhejiang, Chen Jianxin participated in the "High School Chinese College Entrance Examination Writing Guidance Meeting" sponsored by the Cangnan County Education Bureau in March 2018, and gave lectures on college entrance examination composition guidance for nearly 200 high school Chinese teachers. The official website of Hangzhou Xuejun Middle School in Zhejiang shows that Chen Jianxin gave a lecture entitled "How to Write Essays Well" at the school in April 2017. The audience was all the high school students of Hangzhou Xuejun Middle School.
On the morning of August 10, according to The Paper, Chen Jianxin responded to the compilation of the college entrance examination composition and teaching assistant, saying that he was "unclear".
Whether the relevant behavior violates the regulations, the Zhejiang Education Examination Institute must answer
Over the past few days, attention has been drawn from the full score of the Zhejiang college entrance examination composition. From the discussion on the text of "Living on the Tree" and whether it is reasonable for the composition to give a full score, it has been transferred to the report of the grading situation by the group leader of the Chinese grading group for the college entrance examination, and the editor in chief of the college entrance examination composition teaching supplementary book , And whether the composition and secret training courses and lectures for the college entrance examination are in compliance, and whether they are suspected of using power for personal gain.
In this regard, on August 10, Chen Zhiwen, the editor-in-chief of China Education Online, said in an interview with The Paper that there is no room for discussion on how to judge the full score of Zhejiang college entrance examination composition. "In fact, for foreign exams such as TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, GRE, etc., candidates need to sign a transfer of rights before the exam. The core meaning is that right or wrong is determined by the test organization, not by the candidates. It's up to you to determine." Chen Zhiwen said.
He believes that the only point worth discussing in the attention raised by the Zhejiang college entrance examination essay is: Who pushed a topic that is not suitable for discussion in the public opinion field to the public opinion field?
On August 5, Wen Rumin, the editor-in-chief of Chinese textbooks for elementary and middle schools engaged by the Ministry of Education, pointed out in Weibo that the scores of the college entrance examination should be confidential, and all participants in the scoring should not disclose the scoring situation to the outside world, and said bluntly " It is illegal to disclose in the publication for a while."
In addition, on August 10th, Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, told The Paper that the preparation and publication of the college entrance examination composition guidance book, and the development of college entrance examination composition guidance lectures, etc., are definitely not suitable.
In this regard, Chen Zhiwen said that, unlike the person who set the test, the management of the college entrance examination scorer has relatively low confidentiality requirements. Therefore, whether the college entrance examination scorer goes out to give lectures and publishes some related books is against the regulations, it needs to be answered and decided by the relevant departments of the provinces.
Similarly, Xiong Bingqi, the dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, pointed out that just using Chen Jianxin to publish books and participate in lectures would determine violations and not rationally discuss issues. Whether Chen Jianxin used the identity of the group leader of the Chinese composition scoring team to seek personal gain in violation of regulations requires the intervention of the relevant departments to investigate.
An education expert who did not want to be named bluntly said: "The Zhejiang Provincial Education Examination Institute has the responsibility to stand up and respond to public doubts."
Expert: The entrance examination should be reformed from "selection" to "evaluation"
Xiong Bingqi believes that it is impossible for the readers to disclose the high-level examination questions, and the interpretation of the marking standards belongs to the service candidates. The leader of the marking group serves as the editor in chief and publishing relevant composition guide books does not violate the regulations.
Chu Zhaohui said that Chen Jianxin is not alone in publishing books and giving lectures for college entrance examination scorers. Some training institutions still use scorers for commercial hype. He believes that the emergence of this kind of situation is not only related to system loopholes, but also related to insufficient management. It is necessary to improve the system and strengthen management.
In addition, Chen Zhiwen believes that some propaganda that "Chen Jianxin has served as the leader of the Zhejiang college entrance examination Chinese composition scoring team since 2000, and presides over the annual Zhejiang college entrance examination composition scoring work" must be verified by the government. "There are still many people who claim to be the leader of the proposition group, or the proposition person, can you believe it?" Chen Zhiwen said.
Speaking of the series of discussions triggered by the Zhejiang college entrance examination essay, both Chu Zhaohui and Xiong Bingqi mentioned the need for further education reforms.
Xiong Bingqi pointed out that the focus of the contradiction is that the college entrance examination is a selection test, not an evaluation test. The so-called selection test is to select candidates fairly. As for whether the selection system is scientific or not, it is not important; while the evaluation test is to pass the test to evaluate the students' true subject knowledge and literacy.
He believes that it is difficult to solve the problem of test composition style through scoring. "To improve the quality of composition and reading, and to further improve the quality of Chinese education, as well as the quality of education in all disciplines, it is necessary to promote the reform of the examination enrollment system, and effectively change the entrance examination. "Selection" is reformed to "evaluation." Otherwise, the controversy surrounding the proposition and scoring is just a "feather on the ground"."
Chu Zhaohui believes that the controversial issue this time reflects from a deep level that the current enrollment examination program design is not professional enough. "In a more standardized and professional procedure, the tester does not need to write the test in a closed environment. The test questions need to go through multiple procedures and various tests before they are'launched.' People have been the team leader for a long time." Chu Zhaohui said.
"There is still a long distance between the professionalism and modernity of the college entrance examination process and the evaluation of modern education." Chu Zhaohui, for example, said that some foreign exams judge candidates for cheating, not because they are caught in the examination room for plagiarism, but by passing After initiating the analysis of the answer results, if the analysis results show that some answers have reached a certain degree of similarity, it will be regarded as cheating.
In this regard, Chu Zhaohui conceived that general colleges and universities may be allowed to rely on students' high school academic performance as the basis for enrollment, thereby reducing the scope of the college entrance examination. In this way, the workload of marking and evaluation of the college entrance examination is relatively reduced, and it is possible to analyze and evaluate the results of the college entrance examination at different levels, to reverse the problems of examination-oriented teaching and routine answering, and to promote the professionalization and modernization of education evaluation.