Reverse the "fraction-only" orientation, how to do the second half of the article
On January 10, the Ministry of Education issued the "Guidelines for the Quality Evaluation of Ordinary High Schools" (referred to as the "Guidelines"), requiring efforts to overcome the tendency of "only grades and further education" in the running of ordinary high schools, effectively reverse the unscientific education evaluation orientation, and speed up Establish a quality evaluation system for general high schools oriented to the development of quality education.
"Test, test, test, the teacher's magic weapon; points, points, points, the lifeblood of students", due to the combined effect of many reasons, for a long period of time, the score determines the fate of the students, and over time leads to only the score The emergence of the theory.
In order to improve the admission rate, schools and teachers have to put all their efforts on improving their grades, ignoring the individual growth and all-round development of students.
To some extent, grades have kidnapped the current basic education, making everyone feel miserable, but unable to get rid of it.
Educational evaluation is related to the direction of education development. What kind of evaluation baton is there, what kind of school-running direction is there.
Based on such a profound understanding, many people of insight have issued calls to change the "score-only" evaluation mechanism, and relevant parties have also made active exploration attempts: in September 2020, eight departments including the Ministry of Education jointly issued the "On Further Stimulation" "Several Opinions on the Vitality of Running Schools in Primary and Secondary Schools", which proposes to strengthen the evaluation-oriented role, and not to one-sidedly evaluate schools, principals and teachers based on the results of the high school entrance examination or the admission rate.
In October 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "Overall Plan for Deepening Education Evaluation Reform in the New Era", which clarified the task book and roadmap for my country's educational evaluation reform in the new era.
On this basis, the Ministry of Education actively promotes the implementation of the reform of primary and secondary education evaluation.
In March last year, the Ministry of Education and other six departments issued the "Guidelines for the Quality Evaluation of Compulsory Education", and now the "Guidelines" for high schools have been issued. The two "Guidelines" clarify the path of education evaluation reform in primary and secondary schools.
Frozen three feet, not a day's cold, the reform of the evaluation mechanism affects the whole body, and it is not an overnight achievement.
How to reverse the "score-only" educational evaluation orientation is difficult.
The standard of grades and admission rate is indeed rigid and one-sided, but it is relatively fair and comparable, and in the current social environment, it also has considerable rationality.
Talking about heroes based on their achievements is simple and easy to do, with immediate results.
In order to overcome "admission only, only grades", other standards must be introduced, but when it comes to specific operations, it is not an easy task.
Of course, under the current circumstances, overcoming "admission only and grades only" does not mean not going to school and grades. The key is whether deepening the reform of the education system can explore other relatively important values that are recognized by the whole society in addition to further education and grades. and standard.
To this end, the relevant departments have been making unremitting efforts.
The "Opinions" of the above-mentioned eight departments proposed to establish and improve a school-running quality evaluation system oriented to the development of quality education, and to strengthen procedural and developmental evaluations.
On this basis, the "Guide" further proposes to take ideological and moral character, academic level, physical and mental health, artistic quality, labor and social practice as the main content of the evaluation, pay attention to the comprehensive development of students' moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor development, interests and specialties, and establish and improve students Comprehensive quality evaluation system, normalized implementation of comprehensive quality evaluation.
Students and teachers are two melons on the same vine. Unless the assessment requirements for teachers are completely changed, it is impossible to overcome the tendency of "only grades and only further education".
For this reason, the "Guide" particularly emphasizes the need to adhere to the correct view of political achievements and the scientific view of education quality. Ordinary high schools should correctly handle the relationship between entrance examination and the development of quality education, and regard the entrance rate of college entrance examination as one of the objective results of comprehensive implementation of quality education. Grades, classes, and teachers have issued indicators for further education, and do not link the enrollment rate with teacher evaluation and professional title promotion, effectively reverse the unscientific education evaluation orientation, and lead the whole society to establish a scientific education concept.
One point of deployment, nine points of implementation, the Ministry of Education issued the "Guide", which is equivalent to completing the first half of the article, how to effectively do the second half of the article, and effectively overcome the tendency of "only score, only further education", and promote the formation of a good education ecology , there is still a long way to go.
Hu Xinhong