Educational evaluation reflects a country's educational values in a period. Educational values directly affect the evaluation standards, methods and abilities of education. Humanism advocates the cultivation of harmonious people, militarism requires the cultivation of brave and firm people, religious supremacy requires the cultivation of tame and devout people, political supremacy requires the cultivation of loyal and identified people, and social values determine educational values, as well as educational training objectives, ways and means.
However, the educational values of a society are not single, and the macro educational values are relatively clear, but the educational concepts of different regions, different classes and different groups are different. These educational ideas are consistent in some aspects, but there are serious differences in some aspects.
The state requires education to improve the quality of the people and cultivate all-round citizens who meet the requirements of national construction, while families and individuals only hope to improve their situation and seek better social status through education.
The central government requires education to meet the country's demand for national quality and talent quality, local governments pay attention to showing their achievements and striving for social resources through education, and schools pay attention to the distribution of educational resources and the quality of students.
The essence of education
Education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings. Education is a purposeful, conscious and conscious activity to train the educated. In educational activities, there is interaction among educators, educatees and educational influences.
Education is a purposeful social activity to cultivate people, which is the essential attribute of education and the fundamental feature that distinguishes education from other things. In other words, educational activities have a purpose, so it shows one of its characteristics: consciousness. We can understand this sentence from three aspects. First, education is to cultivate people, that is to say, education is a unique social phenomenon of human beings, and there is no education phenomenon in the animal kingdom.