Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 25. Question: Art exams are not "easy exams". What changes will the new rules for art exams bring?
Xinhua News Agency reporters Hu Hao, Zheng Tianhong, and Wang Ying
Strictly control the scope and scale of school examinations, improve the performance requirements of cultural courses, and promote classified admissions for classified examinations... The Ministry of Education recently issued guidance on further strengthening and improving the enrollment of art professional examinations in ordinary colleges and universities, which has attracted widespread attention from the society.
What changes will the series of new regulations bring to the art test?
How does it affect parents and candidates?
The reporter conducted an investigation and interview.
Optimize the professional layout: some majors will stop enrolling students
In recent years, in pursuit of multidisciplinary development, some colleges and universities have competed to open art majors with relatively higher tuition standards and lower thresholds for running schools, and blindly expand the enrollment scale of art majors. Although objectively they have increased the choices for students to apply for the exam, they are due to the orientation of the school. Inaccurate, the scale of enrollment and professional settings are out of touch with social needs.
It is understood that some schools follow the trend to set up art majors, but the teachers are relatively weak, professional and academic are not up to the standard and high, and it is more difficult for students to find employment.
The survey shows that in 2020, the proportion of art undergraduate enrollment in the total undergraduate enrollment in the country is second only to engineering and management, ranking third.
But judging from the initial employment situation, there is a clear gap between its overall employment situation and other majors.
"The popular art test and the unpopular employment. To a certain extent, this sentence reflects that the art admissions setting must be scientifically adjusted from the perspective of sustainable development of talent training." said Wang Hailing, director of the professional department of Northeast Yucai Beihong Art School, art The training of talents needs macro-control in the discipline setting from entrance to exit.
In this regard, the opinions put forward the promotion of the characteristic development of art majors in colleges and universities, clarify the positioning of talent selection and training, optimize the layout of art disciplines, and reduce or stop enrollment of majors with insufficient social demand and low-quality training.
According to the person in charge of the relevant department of the Ministry of Education, this requires universities to highlight their school-running characteristics, build an artistic talent selection and training system commensurate with the school's positioning and characteristics, and focus on selecting and cultivating artistic talents with both virtue and art.
On the other hand, it is necessary to closely integrate social needs, comprehensively consider school-running conditions, faculty, and employment status of graduates, optimize the setting of art majors, and rationally arrange enrollment plans.
Classified examination: provincial examinations are fully covered by school examinations, "slimming"
For a long time, art test corruption cases have occurred from time to time. Among them, the school test is not open and transparent, teaching and test are not separated, and the power of recruitment and examination is too concentrated.
Opinions put forward, vigorously promote the classification examination of the arts.
Actively expand the scope of the provincial-level unified examination, basically achieve full coverage of the provincial-level unified examination for arts majors by 2024, and continuously improve the level and quality of the provincial-level unified examination.
Strictly control the scope and scale of school examinations, establish and improve the admission and exit mechanism for colleges and universities, scientifically and rationally determine the form of school examinations, and strictly control the scale of on-site examinations.
Starting from 2024, there will be no more inter-provincial school test sites.
Improve the selection mechanism of assessors and optimize the composition of assessors.
Strengthen the standardized management of examination organization and strictly prevent examination fraud.
Many art educators believe that expanding the coverage of provincial examinations and narrowing the scope of school examinations is a powerful measure to standardize art examinations and promote their fairness and scientificity.
Lu Xiaobo, Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, said that since the large-scale implementation of the provincial unified examination in 2010, the unified examination has played a very important role in regulating art examinations, forming judgments, and saving costs.
Yu He, a parent of a freshman in the first year of Northeast Yucai Beihong Art School, believes that improved examination methods can reduce the number of times students go to other places for examinations, and reduce a lot of burden for candidates and parents.
For some high-level professional art colleges, school exams are still indispensable.
Lu Xiaobo said that the provincial exam and the school exam are by no means antagonistic, but complement each other and each have their own strengths.
The former to a large extent ensures the national standardization of art exams, and balances regional development from the perspective of education.
The latter guarantees the diversity of talent admissions.
Improving the performance of cultural courses: reversing the tendency of "emphasizing professionalism and neglecting culture"
"If you don’t study well, you can go to the art test" "You can get one book with three or four hundred points"... For a long time, because colleges and universities have relatively low requirements for cultural performance of art candidates, at the same time, many art candidates put a lot of energy into professional courses and ignore culture. The study of the class has caused some people to equate art candidates with "easy candidates", and even some parents and candidates use this as a "shortcut for further studies", feeling that their academic performance is not enough before they rush to study and apply for related majors.
The opinions clearly put forward the requirements for improving cultural performance.
All provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) are required to adjust measures to local conditions, categorize and gradually improve the minimum control scores for admission to cultural courses in the college entrance examination for art majors on the basis of the existing cultural course performance requirements.
In the classified admission of classified examinations, the requirements for cultural class scores are also particularly emphasized.
For example, for art majors in art history, drama, film and literature, etc., the candidates are directly selected based on the candidates' college entrance examination scores and the comprehensive quality evaluation of the candidates. On the basis of the minimum control scores for the admission of art majors in the province (region, city) and the provincial unified examination scores, the candidates will be admitted in parallel based on the comprehensive scores of the candidates’ college entrance examination and the provincial unified examination scores. In principle, the proportion of cultural subjects in the college entrance examination shall not be less than 50%.
"This is a reminder to the candidates and parents. It is because the cultural class is not good to choose, or if you really love this major, students and parents need to make a more careful choice." Wang Hailing said, "Art and culture complement each other, and in the long run It can be seen that those who can continue to develop better must be students who are good in both cultural and professional courses. In the next step of training, the school will pay more attention to both cultural and professional courses, systematically categorize and promote, and set up a scientific preparation plan based on the actual situation of students. Improve students with different needs."
Lu Xiaobo believes that “art is a discipline that goes hand in hand with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Any aspect that is weak will cause the'barrel effect'.”