China News Service, Ningbo, October 24 (Reporter Ma Haiyan) "OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) China Education Quality Research Report" was released on the 24th.
The report believes that in just a few decades, China has established a world-class primary and secondary education system to adapt to its economic and social development.
The first Dongqian Lake Education Forum came to an end in Ningbo, Zhejiang.
Yuan Zhenguo, tenured professor of East China Normal University and dean of Zhejiang Dongqianhu Education Research Institute, released the report.
In 2018, four regions of China, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, took part in the PISA (Project for International Student Assessment) test. As a result, Chinese students ranked first in the math, science and reading rankings.
Although the four provinces in eastern China do not represent the whole of China, the size of each province is comparable to that of a typical OECD country, and the income levels of these four Chinese regions are much lower than the OECD average.
According to data from China's Ministry of Education, the average investment of students in elementary, middle and high schools in China is about US$3,500.
OECD countries spend an average of about US$9,400 on the corresponding education level.
In China, the average expenditure for elementary school students is about US$2,860, and the average expenditure for junior high school students is about US$4,000.
This figure is significantly lower than the average level of OECD countries ($8,470 for elementary schools and $9884 for junior high schools), but the use efficiency is the highest.
The report believes that China's outstanding achievements in PISA are the result of long-term support from the high-quality education system.
The quality of the education system largely depends on the quality of teachers.
As one of PISA's outstanding education systems, China has prioritized the development of a strong teaching staff in its policy agenda.
At the national level, China has implemented a policy of "publicly funded teacher education". Admitted candidates for the college entrance examination can receive four years of free tuition and subsidies, and guarantee job distribution upon graduation and learning opportunities for on-the-job master's programs.
In return, it must be dedicated to teaching for at least 6 years.
At the same time, since the beginning of this century, the Chinese government has carried out impressive curriculum reforms.
Curriculum reform has promoted the shift from focusing on students' academic development to focusing on the overall development of students; from a knowledge-based curriculum framework to an ability-based curriculum framework.
China’s new curriculum reform has prioritized moral education, and students’ social and emotional abilities are a key component of it.
The report also shows that in the PISA project, the proportion of schools (from elementary school to high school) that have Internet services for teaching purposes in China has a relatively small gap with other outstanding education systems.
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