Make good use of compulsory education to evaluate ＂baton＂ (commentator’s observation)
The Guide to Quality Evaluation of Compulsory Education not only provides a powerful starting point for improving the quality of compulsory education, but also restricts the irregular teaching behavior, which is of great significance for promoting the all-round and healthy growth of students.
Focusing on the construction of a high-quality education system, with the reform of educational evaluation as the traction, we will promote the reform of educational methods, school-running models, management systems and security mechanisms as a whole, and promote the formation of a healthy educational ecology.
Don’t give the school entrance examination indicators, don’t simply evaluate the school, principals and teachers by the enrollment rate, and don’t publish the examination results and rankings … … Not long ago, six departments, including the Ministry of Education, issued the Guidelines for the Quality Evaluation of Compulsory Education, which systematically stipulated the quality evaluation of compulsory education, providing a strong support for promoting a good and balanced education.
Educational evaluation is related to the development direction of education, and it is related to the fundamental problem of who to train, how to train people and for whom. To promote the modernization of educational governance system and governance capacity, we must hold the "bull nose" of educational evaluation. The "Overall Plan for Deepening the Reform of Education Evaluation in the New Era" issued last year clearly regards the effectiveness of Lide Shuren as the fundamental standard of education evaluation. In the same vein, the Guide to Quality Evaluation of Compulsory Education is based on the growth and educational laws of children and aims at promoting the all-round development of students’ morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor, and makes comprehensive and specific provisions on what, how and who to evaluate from the aspects of evaluation content, evaluation method, evaluation implementation, evaluation result application and organizational guarantee. This guide sets rigid rules for the evaluation of compulsory education in various places, which not only provides a powerful starting point for improving the quality of compulsory education, but also restricts the irregular teaching behavior, which is of great significance for fundamentally reversing the unscientific and unreasonable orientation of educational evaluation and promoting the all-round and healthy growth of students.
How to improve the quality of compulsory education is related to the healthy growth of hundreds of millions of children. When General Secretary of the Supreme Leader visited the members of the medical and health education sector attending the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference meeting this year, he stressed: "Education, whether school education or family education, should not pay too much attention to scores." Over the years, from formulating measures to reduce the burden on primary and secondary school students to standardizing the development of off-campus training institutions and holding competitions; From deepening the integration of physical education and education, promoting schools to strengthen aesthetic education and labor education, to strengthening the construction of teachers’ morality and style, China has made great efforts to reduce students’ burden and promote the transformation from exam-oriented education to quality education. In the new era, China’s compulsory education has entered a new stage of improving the quality in an all-round way, and it is urgent to improve the evaluation system of the quality of compulsory education. The introduction of "Guide to Quality Evaluation of Compulsory Education" is helpful to guide the formation of a scientific concept of educational development and talent training, promote the comprehensive implementation of the Party’s educational policy and the fundamental task of cultivating people by virtue, and point out the direction for the development of compulsory education in the new era.
What kind of evaluation baton there is, what kind of school-running orientation and educational ecology there is. For a long time, the phenomenon of "only scores" and "only enrollment rate" has been more prominent in society. Schools have the impulse to recruit students and pursue the enrollment rate, parents are anxious for fear that their children will lose at the starting line of score competition, and there are many phenomena in society, such as "reducing the burden on campus, increasing the burden off campus" and "not transferring offline to online". Behind these problems, we can see the importance of educational evaluation baton. In this regard, the Guide to Quality Evaluation of Compulsory Education adheres to the problem orientation, and integrates the educational goal of cultivating people and promoting people’s all-round development into the assessment and evaluation of counties, schools and students. For example, in view of students’ heavy academic burden, the guide includes "the feeling of academic burden inside and outside the school" into the assessment, and stipulates that teachers "do not publish test scores and rankings"; In view of the heavy burden on schools and teachers, it is required to "strictly control all kinds of activities such as examination and approval, inspection and acceptance, and establishment of appraisal for schools". These targeted measures provide a good way to eradicate stubborn diseases such as attaching importance to intellectual education over moral education and attaching importance to scores over quality.
During the two sessions of the National People’s Congress this year, how to promote the transformation from exam-oriented education to quality education has become a topic of heated discussion among deputies. All localities need to do a good job in the implementation of the "Guidelines for the Evaluation of Compulsory Education Quality" to ensure that the policy requirements and direction guidelines of the party and the state for running compulsory education are effective in education and teaching. Focusing on the construction of a high-quality education system, guided by the reform of education evaluation, promoting the reform of educational methods, school-running models, management systems and security mechanisms as a whole, and promoting the formation of a healthy educational ecology, we will certainly be able to run a satisfactory education for the people and cultivate talents needed by the country.
