The Significance of Developing Third Party Education Evaluation and Monitoring
Actively promoting the evaluation and monitoring of third-party education is a breakthrough to establish and improve the educational evaluation system involving schools, majors and social organizations. It is also an important measure to deepen the comprehensive reform in the field of education, promote the separation of management and evaluation, and change functions.
Carrying out third-party education evaluation and monitoring is a powerful starting point for deepening comprehensive reform in the field of education. Effectively implementing the third-party education evaluation and monitoring, introducing social specialties to evaluate the quality of education, testing the quality effect of running a school and supervising the policy implementation process are conducive to reconstructing the relationship between schools and society, reshaping the roles of schools and society in ensuring the quality of education, gradually establishing a modern education governance system with relatively separate decision-making, implementation and supervision, and constantly improving the ability and level of education governance.
Carrying out third-party education evaluation and monitoring is the need to deepen the reform of education supervision and build a modern education supervision system. Establishing and perfecting the third-party education evaluation and monitoring mechanism is not only conducive to enhancing the credibility of education supervision departments and even the public, but also an important measure to promote the legalization, specialization and modernization of supervision.
Carrying out third-party education evaluation and monitoring is in line with the common practice and main trend of international education evaluation. At present, the main developed countries in the world are emphasizing the role of social participation in educational evaluation, legally ensuring social forces to participate in evaluation as an independent third party, forming a basic operation mode of leading supervision and professional (social third party) design and implementation. In recent years, the international large-scale education assessment organized by the third party, such as PISA (Program for International Student Assessment), has been paid more and more attention by countries, and PISA testing has been introduced and participated in Shanghai, Beijing and other places.
Practical Exploration of Developing Third-party Education Evaluation and Monitoring
In recent years, all parts of the country have attached great importance to and actively promoted the evaluation and monitoring of third-party education, entrusted the third party to carry out a series of important education evaluation and monitoring projects, and made some practical explorations in building the policy system and institutional mechanism of third-party education evaluation and monitoring, and achieved positive progress and results.
First, the third-party education evaluation and monitoring policy system has been gradually improved. Some local studies put forward reform opinions and improved the policy system. For example, on 20 16, the General Office of Beijing issued and implemented the "Implementation Opinions on Deepening the Reform of Education Supervision in Beijing" to build a trinity modern education supervision system of supervision, supervision, evaluation and monitoring. Through task decomposition and division of responsibilities, Beijing Education Supervision Office has effectively promoted and implemented all the work of education supervision reform, and studied and formulated the policy standard system of education supervision evaluation and quality monitoring in detail. Shanghai, Chongqing and other provinces and cities have also studied and introduced relevant policies and supporting measures to actively promote related work.
At the same time, the mechanism of strengthening the construction of educational supervision function and centralized management of educational evaluation and monitoring has been gradually explored and established. For example, the main responsibilities, internal structure and staffing of the Beijing Education Supervision Office have been recently adjusted, and all the supervision, evaluation and quality monitoring responsibilities undertaken by the Municipal Education Commission have been placed under the centralized management of the Municipal Education Supervision Office. The number of educational supervision rooms in the city has been adjusted from 3 to 6, and the evaluation and monitoring rooms have been added, and the administrative establishment has been increased accordingly. Under the guidance and promotion of municipal departments, the construction of educational supervision functions in various districts of Beijing has made positive progress, and most of them have explored the model of "three subjects and one center" or "two subjects and one center". Beijing also coordinated the evaluation and monitoring work carried out by the education supervision departments at the two levels in the urban area, and made clear their respective responsibilities. Other provinces and cities have also strengthened the functional construction of evaluation and monitoring in different forms, and made solid progress in the reform of the education system with separate management and administration and graded responsibility.
Second, the third-party education evaluation and monitoring mechanism has been gradually established. The educational administrative departments of all provinces, prefectures and cities in China actively explore the establishment of educational evaluation institutes and evaluation and monitoring centers, and entrust educational evaluation and monitoring projects. Some provinces and cities have also stepped up efforts to cultivate third parties, directly entrusting qualified third parties to carry out evaluation and monitoring, and achieved good results. Beijing has formulated and implemented the Interim Measures for Entrusting a Third Party to Carry out Educational Evaluation and Monitoring, which clearly defines the main items, working procedures and rights and obligations of all parties entrusted to carry out educational evaluation and monitoring from five aspects: basic principles, assessment qualification determination, entrusted management, working procedures and supervision and evaluation, so as to ensure the implementation of third-party educational evaluation and monitoring norms and ensure the quality of purchased services.
What problems need to be solved?
Although the implementation of education evaluation and monitoring has institutional basis and practical exploration experience, the implementation time of third-party education evaluation and monitoring in China is still short, and various conditions and environments are insufficient, and the understanding is not deep enough. Some key nodes have not yet made fundamental breakthroughs. To promote the implementation of third-party education evaluation and monitoring, we must solve the following outstanding problems:
First, strengthen the cultivation of professional third-party education evaluation and monitoring. It is necessary to effectively change the management function, change the one-way imperative management mode of third-party evaluation, and respect and guarantee the independence and professionalism of third-party evaluation; It is necessary to create a fair and just competition mechanism environment, establish corresponding system norms, and carry out entrusted third-party evaluation and monitoring in an orderly manner; It is necessary to formulate and implement corresponding support policies, take funds and projects as the guidance, and encourage financial funds or private capital to enter the field of third-party evaluation and monitoring; It is necessary to strengthen the construction of social expert organizations and expert databases, organize relevant professional research and training and the identification of third-party qualification grades, encourage professional vertical and horizontal multi-directional alliances, and gradually form more high-level third-party professional groups.
The second is to solve the institutional mechanism of effective implementation of third-party education evaluation and monitoring. It is necessary to strengthen the function of education supervision, rationally divide the responsibilities of education administration and education supervision, strengthen education supervision and supervision, and further enhance the professional level of education evaluation and monitoring. It is necessary to effectively simplify administration and decentralize power, expand the autonomy of running schools, return their due rights, strive to achieve greater independent development, independent innovation and independent management of schools, and strive to improve the ability of schools to open schools, make overall use of social resources, and promote school reform and development. By solving the problems of system and mechanism, we will promote the implementation of third-party education evaluation and monitoring, and release the attraction of the system, the vitality of the mechanism and the motivation of domestic demand.
The third is to speed up the establishment and improvement of policies and standards for the effective implementation of third-party education evaluation and monitoring. We should make great efforts to speed up the establishment and improvement of education evaluation and monitoring system, formulate a list of third-party education evaluation and monitoring projects in light of the actual situation, develop evaluation and monitoring standards, tools and procedures covering all levels and types of education through various channels such as independence, entrustment and cooperation, and form a series of education evaluation and monitoring implementation plans to provide basic follow-up for the effective implementation of third-party education evaluation and monitoring.
The fourth is to speed up the creation of perfect basic data information for educational evaluation and monitoring. Based on the integration and sharing of data resources, the system and working mechanism of data filling, collection, access, generation and compatibility are established, big data information including basic data, condition data, process data, result data and related information is formed, basic evaluation, data mining, system analysis and comprehensive evaluation are implemented, a high-level education supervision and evaluation information management application system is constructed, and the data support, information support, management guarantee and service decision-making ability of education supervision and evaluation are enhanced.