China News Service, August 30. According to the website of the Ministry of Education, the General Office of the Ministry of Education issued a notice on strengthening examination management in compulsory education schools (hereinafter referred to as the notice) on the 30th.
The notification requirements significantly reduce the number of exams.
The first and second grades of elementary school do not take paper-based examinations; all regions shall not organize regional or inter-school examinations for all grades of elementary school and non-graduating grades of junior high school; schools and classes shall not organize weekly, monthly, unit and other types of examinations. It is also not possible to organize examinations in disguised forms such as tests, quizzes, time-limited exercises, and academic research.
The notification is clear,
and the test function is accurately grasped
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Necessary examinations are an important part of school education and teaching.
Compulsory education school examinations are for underage students. They mainly play a role in diagnosing academic sentiment, improving teaching, and evaluating teaching quality. Except for junior high school graduates’ high school exam (academic level test), other exams do not have screening. , Selection function.
At present, some localities and compulsory education schools have prominent problems such as excessive examination times, difficulty, low quality, and improper use of results, which violate the orientation of quality education, cause excessive burden on students, excessive pressure on examinations, and damage the physical and mental health of students , Must be corrected.
All localities and schools must accurately grasp the features of compulsory education school examinations, earnestly implement the "Guidelines for Compulsory Education Quality Evaluation", coordinate and handle the relationship between examinations, homework, daily evaluation, quality monitoring, etc., improve the compulsory education evaluation system, and arrange examinations in a scientific and reasonable manner. Guide the deepening of curriculum and teaching reform, and comprehensively improve the quality of education and teaching.
Significantly reduce the number of exams
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The first and second grades of elementary school do not take paper-based examinations. For other grades of compulsory education, the school organizes a final examination every semester. Starting from the reality of different subjects, a mid-term examination can be arranged for the junior high school.
Localities are not allowed to organize regional or inter-school exams for all grades of elementary school and non-graduating grades of junior high school; schools and classes are not allowed to organize weekly exams, monthly exams, unit exams and other types of exams, nor are they allowed to test, test, practice, or practice within a limited time. Examinations are organized in disguised form such as academic research and other names.
In order to meet the needs of students for graduation and advancement, junior high school graduation grades can organize 1-2 mock exams in the general review stage after completing the normal course teaching tasks in the next semester, and resolutely prohibit rushing to the teaching progress and finishing class preparations in advance.
The junior high school level examination is still implemented in accordance with the relevant regulations of the national and provincial education departments. Except for the junior high school level test, no selection examinations linked to advancement shall be organized.
Standardize exam proposition management
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School final exam propositions should strictly regulate the content of the exam, reasonably control the difficulty of the exam, and must not exceed the national curriculum standards and school teaching progress.
It is necessary to effectively improve the quality of the propositions, pay attention to the examination of basic knowledge, basic skills and the achievement of teaching goals, pay attention to increasing the proportion of comprehensive, open, application-oriented, and exploratory test questions, reflect the orientation of quality education, avoid partial and strange questions, and reduce mechanical memory Exam questions to prevent excessive difficulty.
All localities and schools should strengthen the research and evaluation of propositions and the training of teachers' proposition ability, and continuously improve the proposition level of teachers.
For schools with insufficient proposition ability at present, the higher education department can entrust teaching and research institutions to organize propositions for the schools to choose and use, and the respective schools will review the papers separately.
Use test results wisely
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The school mid-term final exam implements grade evaluation, generally divided into 4 to 5 grades.
The test results are not ranked or announced. Students and parents shall be informed in an appropriate manner, and the test results shall not be disseminated among various parent groups.
Students are not allowed to adjust their classes, arrange seats, or "label" according to the test results; the results of the mid-term final exams in each semester of junior high school and the mock test results of the next semester of junior high school shall not be linked to the advancement of higher education.
Teachers should use test results to accurately analyze their academic conditions, provide targeted assistance and guidance to students, scientifically judge the key and difficult points of teaching work, effectively improve classroom teaching, and continuously improve classroom teaching effects.
Schools should strengthen the overall analysis of test results, make scientific judgments on teaching quality, and strengthen teachers' teaching guidance and training in a targeted manner.
Improve the evaluation of the learning process
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All localities and schools should establish a quality outlook for all-round development and a scientific education evaluation outlook, comprehensively consider students' academic test scores and other performances, and evaluate students in a scientific and comprehensive manner.
It is necessary to improve the academic evaluation system that integrates the evaluation of the learning process and the evaluation of the test results, strengthen the evaluation of the students’ learning process, and encourage practical evaluation. It is possible to use classroom observations, in-class exercises, experimental operations, after-school homework, etc. to carry out the immediate learning of students Periodic evaluation, through periodic communication, keynote speeches, achievement presentations, student reviews, etc. to carry out periodic evaluations.
It is necessary to pay attention to the evaluation of students' comprehensive quality, study habits and performance, learning ability and innovative spirit.
It is necessary to innovate evaluation tools and actively use modern information technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data to explore and carry out the evaluation of the whole process of students' learning in all grades, and the evaluation of all elements of moral, intellectual, physical, artistic and labor.
Strengthen the monitoring of academic quality
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In accordance with the overall deployment of education evaluation reform in the new era and the relevant requirements of the "Guidelines for Compulsory Education Quality Evaluation", all localities should improve local compulsory education quality monitoring on the basis of national compulsory education quality monitoring, and refer to national monitoring methods and adopt a sampling method by disciplines. To prevent the use of unified test papers for unified testing and to avoid excessive pressure and burden on students; local academic quality monitoring should be strengthened to prevent repetition. It can be organized once in the upper grades of elementary school or the beginning of junior high school as an evaluation elementary school stage. An important basis for the quality of education, and at the same time as an important basis for the value-added and developmental evaluation of education quality at the junior high school stage.
Improve the management and supervision mechanism
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Provincial education administrative departments must strengthen overall planning, formulate implementation measures for compulsory education examination management based on actual conditions, and further improve the management system for junior and secondary school level examinations.
The administrative departments of education at the city and county levels must strictly enforce examination work discipline, establish a daily supervision system for compulsory education school examinations, and must not give schools admission indicators, and must not simply use examination results as the basis for evaluating schools.
Educational supervision departments at all levels shall incorporate the management of compulsory education school examinations into the important content of education supervision, and shall investigate and account for any violations of examinations discovered.
It is strictly forbidden for off-campus training institutions to conduct examinations for students in compulsory education or jointly conduct examinations with schools.
Schools in all regions should strengthen positive publicity, guide parents and students to correctly view the test results, and create a good environment for promoting students' all-round development and healthy growth.
The requirement to drastically reduce the number of examinations will first be carried out in the "double reduction" pilot areas determined by the central government and various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), actively carry out exploratory experiments, sum up experience in a timely manner, and continuously improve relevant measures.