China News Service, March 18th. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, six departments including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security have jointly issued the "Guidelines for the Evaluation of Compulsory Education Quality" (hereinafter referred to as the "Evaluation Guidelines").
The "Evaluation Guidelines" proposes to adhere to the problem orientation, improve the evaluation content, highlight the key points of the evaluation, improve the evaluation methods, coordinate and integrate the evaluation, and strive to overcome the tendency of "only scores and only go to school", and promote the formation of a good education ecology.
According to reports, in order to effectively reverse the unscientific education evaluation orientation, comprehensively deepen the reform of compulsory education and teaching, promote the development and quality improvement of compulsory education, and promote the modernization of the education governance system and governance capabilities, according to the "About Deepening Education and Teaching" issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council. The guidelines were formulated in the spirit of the “Opinions on Reforms to Improve the Quality of Compulsory Education in an All-round Way” and the “Overall Plan for Deepening Education Evaluation Reform in the New Era”.
The "Evaluation Guidelines" put forward the following basic principles:
Stay in the right direction.
Carry out the mission of educating people for the party and for the country, adhere to the correct view of political performance and scientific education quality, and promote the fair development and quality improvement of compulsory education.
Insist on educating people.
Facing all students, pay attention to comprehensive quality evaluation, promote comprehensive training, guide every school and teach every student well.
Stick to problem orientation.
Improve the content of the evaluation, highlight the key points of the evaluation, improve the evaluation methods, coordinate and integrate the evaluation, and strive to overcome the tendency of "only scores and only enter higher education", and promote the formation of a good education ecology.
Persist in using evaluation to promote construction.
Adhere to seeking truth from facts, being objective and fair, strengthening process evaluation and developmental evaluation, effectively playing the guiding, diagnosing, improving, and encouraging functions, and promoting the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education.
In terms of evaluation content, the "Evaluation Guide" points out that the quality evaluation of compulsory education includes three levels: county, school, and student. The three are closely focused on implementing the party’s education policy and aiming at promoting the overall development of students. The internal unity constitutes a complete compulsory education quality evaluation system.
Evaluation of the quality of compulsory education at the county level.
It mainly includes five key contents including value orientation, organizational leadership, teaching conditions, teaching staff, and balanced development. It aims to promote local party committees and governments to adhere to the direction of socialist education, strengthen the leadership of compulsory education, perform the responsibility of holding compulsory education, and promote Compulsory education at the county level develops in a high-quality and balanced manner.
Evaluation of school quality.
It mainly includes five key contents, including school orientation, curriculum teaching, teacher development, school management, and student development. It aims to promote schools to implement the comprehensive training requirements of morality, intelligence, physical education, art and labor, in-depth implementation of quality education, fully stimulate school vitality, and continuously improve school management. Level and quality of education.
Evaluation of the quality of student development.
It mainly includes five key contents including student moral development, academic development, physical and mental development, aesthetic literacy, labor and social practice. It aims to promote the comprehensive development of students’ moral, intellectual, physical, and artistic, and cultivate correct values that meet the needs of life-long development and social development. Required character and key abilities.
In terms of evaluation methods, the "Evaluation Guidelines" proposes that the implementation of compulsory education quality evaluation should focus on optimizing evaluation methods and methods, and continuously improve the scientificity, pertinence, and effectiveness of evaluation work.
Pay attention to the combination of result evaluation and value-added evaluation.
While paying attention to student development, school running, and county compulsory education development qualifications, it also pays attention to the progress of its development level and work level, and scientifically evaluates the efforts of local party committees, schools, and teachers.
Pay attention to the combination of comprehensive evaluation and characteristic evaluation.
While paying attention to the overall effect of comprehensive education in counties and schools and the overall development of students' morality, intelligence, physical education, and labor, we also pay attention to differences and diversity, pay attention to each school and each student, and promote the development of school characteristics and student personality development.
Pay attention to the combination of self-evaluation and external evaluation.
While guiding students, schools, and county-level party committees and governments to actively carry out normalized self-evaluation and immediate improvement, it also builds an external evaluation system with multiple subjects, integrated optimization, clear responsibilities, and efficient organization.
Pay attention to the combination of online evaluation and offline evaluation.
Establish a normalized evaluation network information platform and database for counties, schools, and students, improve the comprehensive quality evaluation files of students, and understand the actual situation through field investigations, observations, interviews, etc., to ensure that the evaluations are true, comprehensive, scientific and effective.
The "Evaluation Guidelines" require a clear evaluation cycle.
The quality evaluation of schools and counties shall be fully covered. The evaluation cycle shall be determined by each region according to the number of counties under its jurisdiction, the number of schools, and work needs. In principle, it will be rounded every 3-5 years, and ensure that the main person in charge of the party and government at the county level , The principal shall conduct an evaluation at least once during the tenure of the principal.