Educational statistics, for the vast majority of non-professional people, is a relatively unfamiliar field, but in fact it is closely related to each of us. Educational statistics provide a scientific method for exploring educational laws, formulating policies and testing efficiency.
"In the previous historical period, the main task of our education work was popularization. In this process, the extent to which education is popularized, which areas and people are covered, what kind of investment is needed in places that are not popularized, and what kind of difficulties to be solved are all related to statistics. Nowadays, the development of education has entered a new stage of improving quality, optimizing structure and promoting fairness. This stage of development is more closely related to statistics, because judging the quality of education needs to be based on numbers, judging whether the talent training structure matches the needs of economic and social development, and judging what problems education has in promoting social equity depends on data. " Chen Feng, director of the School Planning, Construction and Development Center of the Ministry of Education, said, "When education enters the stage of improving quality, adjusting structure and promoting fairness, it will have many close relations with the development of science and technology, economic and social development, people's feelings and the needs of industrial enterprises. It is even more necessary to establish a set of index system to scientifically analyze and judge the quality and structure of our education development."
Truth is the life of statistics. In view of this, once the statistical data is distorted and the resources are improperly allocated, it will eventually affect the national education development level and the vital interests of the people.
At present, strengthening the attention of educational administrative departments at all levels and schools at all levels, and strengthening the management of statistical data authenticity are the top priorities of educational statistics, and the focus of these two things is the team building of educational statisticians.
The reporter learned that at present, the education statistics work covers more than 500,000 schools and 260 million students nationwide, and there are nearly one million full-time and part-time personnel at all levels of schools, counties, cities, provinces and countries. However, at present, there are some problems in the educational statistics team, such as less full-time staff, great mobility and uneven quality, and the professional quality of the staff has not reached the prescribed standards in many aspects. Chen Feng said: "Education statistics is a highly professional job. If the statistician's ability is not up to standard, it is difficult to ensure that the data source is true. "
In order to solve the problems of low professional quality and insufficient basic guidance of full-time and part-time personnel in educational statistics, in 20 12, the Ministry of Education established five national-level educational statistics training bases in Fudan University, Xiamen University, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Xi University of Finance and Economics and Dali University, and held the 120 issue during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan period, training 20,000 statistical backbone personnel and hundreds of county-level supervisors in educational statistics. Candy, a statistical expert at the School Planning, Construction and Development Center of the Ministry of Education, said: "However, due to the high travel expenses and limited number of trainees, it is difficult to improve the professional quality of educational statisticians on the whole by relying on five training bases." "We have to rely on some traditional centralized training methods and try new training models. Online education came into being at this stage."
Since 20 15, the School Planning and Construction Development Center of the Ministry of Education and Fudan University have jointly organized educational statistics experts to jointly build a curriculum system of "National Online Training of Educational Statistics" to provide a convenient and professional online training platform for grassroots statisticians and educational administrators. Students can complete their own business promotion without being limited by time, place and learning terminal. "The establishment of online training platform can greatly make up for the lack of base training, and the' internet plus' model will become the basic project for the construction of educational statistics team under the background of educational modernization." Chen Feng introduced.
If the country wants to basically realize the modernization of education and realize the goal of "improving the quality of education and optimizing the educational structure" in 2020, it must be guided by the scientific decision of decision makers. Chen Feng believes: "The most important task at present is to raise the awareness of education departments and schools at all levels on the importance of statistical work, put an end to decision-making in education management and minimize the risks in education reform."