China News Service, Beijing, June 16 (Reporter Du Yan) How to make a college entrance examination paper accurate, safe and fair?
Today, the reporter walked into the marking station located in Tsinghua University to explore how the staff did the work of good reviews.
Starting in 2020, Beijing will implement the "New College Entrance Examination": examinees regardless of arts and sciences, the examination time has changed from 2 days in previous years to 4 days, and the number of examination sessions has changed from 4 to 6.
Except for the changes in the test format, candidates can choose to take the exam. In addition to taking the 3 unified exams of Chinese, Mathematics, and Foreign Languages, candidates can choose 3 of the 6 subjects to take the general high school level examination.
Strengthen the trial evaluation process and extend the trial evaluation time appropriately
So, the math papers for the college entrance examination are not divided into liberal arts and sciences. Is there any difference in the marking process from the past?
Tsinghua University has been responsible for marking papers for Beijing college entrance examination mathematics for many years.
According to Chen Qixin, director of the Admissions Office of Tsinghua University, this year is the second year of the formal implementation of Beijing’s new college entrance examination reform. In order to strictly control the quality of the assessment papers, the mathematics assessment point has further strengthened the assessment process and appropriately extended the assessment time to ensure all assessment papers. The teacher will start the formal scoring only after fully mastering the grading rules.
On June 16, 2021, the Beijing College Entrance Examination Mathematics Marking Center at Tsinghua University will be open to the media.
Photo by Yang Kejia
As the saying goes, "knife sharpening does not accidentally cut wood."
Chen Qixin said that this year he has spent more effort on the trial evaluation work than in previous years. He hopes that while continuing the consistent rigorous and scientific evaluation method, he will further remind the marking staff to do the evaluation work from the objective procedures and subjective wishes, and do it in earnest. Responsible to candidates.
He said that in the process of marking papers, it is necessary to ensure the scientificity, fairness, standardization, and safety of the marking work, but also to "unify up and down, left and right, and front and back."
The so-called "unified upper and lower" means that the standards of the marking teachers, group leaders, question group leaders, and quality group members are consistent; "unified left and right" means that the standards of different assessors of the same marking group are consistent; "unified before and after" means that the standards are consistent from beginning to end .
He said that the mathematics marking papers of the college entrance examination adhere to the consistent high standards and strict requirements. In addition to the final comprehensive random check, the marking process will also conduct timely and dynamic random checks, such as test papers with 0 points or full marks for each topic. Test papers with too high or too low scores, and test papers with a double score gap exceeding the allowable range, etc., all team leaders and expert groups must review 100%.
After the Beijing New College Entrance Examination, the mathematics papers for liberal arts and sciences are no longer distinguished.
Regarding the difficulty of the test paper, Chen Qixin said that compared with the uncertainty of the epidemic prevention and control situation in 2020, under the situation of normalizing the epidemic prevention and control, the new college entrance examination reform proposition will be further advanced in the second year, highlighting the application of student learning content Ability inspection.
The proposition attaches great importance to the investigation of logical reasoning ability and mathematical operation literacy, which can reflect the ability of students to transform unfamiliar test questions into familiar main knowledge through thinking.
He pointed out that this year's test papers have made it easier for candidates with liberal arts and science majors to adapt to the compatibility of content and scope. At present, each question has a full score test paper, but the marking is still in the review stage and has not been completely over. , The scores of all the questions have not been added, so the full score is still unclear.
On June 16, 2021, the Beijing College Entrance Examination Mathematics Marking Center at Tsinghua University will be open to the media.
Photo by Yang Kejia
According to reports, this year, the number of mathematics marking and reviewing teachers is the same as in previous years. There are about 240 marking teachers, 130 of whom are from Tsinghua University, and the rest are teachers, researchers and frontline teachers from all districts.
Except for multiple-choice questions with 40 points, which are judged by the machine, the remaining 110 points are all judged at the mathematics marking point.
Meticulously prevent false heights, missed judgments, wrong judgments and other problems
Speaking of the work of marking the Beijing papers of the Chinese for the college entrance examination, Song Yayun, the head of the Chinese subject of Peking University, said that the measures that must be followed in the process of marking the papers have been further refined, and the quality control shall be strengthened to ensure that the measures are in place.
He introduced that the 2021 College Entrance Examination Chinese Peking Paper will give full play to the core functions of the College Entrance Examination of "providing talents, serving talents, and guiding teaching", combined with the national situation and the actual learning of examinees, and maintain the basic stability of the layout of examination papers and examination content. The angle of basic and language ability highlights the comprehensive examination of the core literacy of the subject.
The structure of the test paper is the same as last year. The question type is basically stable. There are some new changes. The length of the test paper has been reduced, the number of words has been reduced by about 300 words, and the number of questions has been reduced by one ancient text-to-modern translation question, reflecting the "burden reduction of the test."
This year, the scoring lineup of the Chinese Peking Paper for the College Entrance Examination is relatively strong.
He said that nearly 44,000 papers were scored this year, and there were 320 judges, including 160 from four universities including Peking University, Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, and Capital Normal University, and middle school teachers from various districts and counties in Beijing. There are 160 people, including special-grade Chinese teachers, municipal-level subject leaders, municipal-level backbone teachers, district-level subject leaders, and district-level backbone teachers.
Song Yayun said that there are six main points of work in the trial evaluation process, which can be summarized as: reading, searching, writing, discussion, setting and grouping.
——Reading: The expert group and the group leader carefully study the question book and reference answers, answer examples and grading references.
——Finding: The expert team and the team leader combine the specific answer sheets to conduct sample test evaluations to find out the sample papers.
——Writing: The question group leader and the group leader initially write the first draft and sample paper comments of the "Grading Rules", and submit them to the standard answer review team for review.
——Discussion: After 3 discussions and revisions, a set of reliable scoring rules are finalized, which will be signed by the bidding review expert group.
——Settings: The test group leader and group leader also need to set up sample papers, training papers and test papers.
-Grouping: divide the assessors into several groups, ready to review each question.
He said that the assessors have been carefully trained, including online training by the technology company, so that they are proficient in the process of marking the paper; after the technical training, the assessors will be familiar with the topic, try to answer the test paper, and deepen their experience.
Then, the heads of each group will explain the intent of the topic propositions in groups and groups, explain and digest the reference answers and grading rules.
After entering the positive assessment, the question group leader will adopt a variety of inspection methods to monitor the quality of the assessment of the question, issue test papers for verification from time to time, and check the self-assessment papers regularly.
It is understood that there is a random check rate as high as 96%.
In order to strictly prevent the occurrence of phenomena such as tight front and loose back, tight front and back tight, sudden high and low fluctuations, he said that the question group leader and group leader must accurately grasp the progress of the marking and require all the assessors to be serious and responsible, and ensure that the process is stable and the result is Accurate and fair.
He emphasized that high- and zero-scoring papers should be checked to prevent false highs, missed judgments, and misjudgments from occurring. "Must be meticulous, conscientious, and carefully review every test paper, and strive to be accurate, safe, and fair."
Speaking of this year's Chinese essay review, Song Yayun said that this year, the proportion of candidates choosing narrative essays has increased.
Among them, high-scoring argumentative essays tend to have high intentions, deep opinions, lightning thinking, rigorous logic, complete structure, fluent language, and thought-provoking articles; high-scoring narratives are often well-conceived, beautiful in language, good at telling stories, and some are close Life is rich in imagination. "These reflect the higher literary literacy of students, and also reflect some of the achievements of Beijing Chinese teaching reform, which is gratifying." (End)