First, the target of education. Examination-oriented education is mainly aimed at a few students, ignoring most students, and is aimed at the education of "excellent students" in the eyes of some teachers; Quality education is aimed at all students, and all students are not ignored by other teachers.
Second, educational goals. Exam-oriented education, as its name implies, is for exams, so the educational goal focuses on imparting knowledge, ignoring moral education, physical education, aesthetic education, psychological education and productive labor education; Quality education is intellectual education, moral education, physical education, psychological education and productive labor education.
Third, ability training. Examination-oriented education only pays attention to skill training and ignores ability training; Quality education attaches importance to the cultivation of various abilities.
Fourth, teaching methods. Exam-oriented education only requires students to take exams, so the teaching method of rote memorization and mechanical repetitive training is adopted, which makes students' academic burden too heavy; Quality education adopts heuristic and inquiry teaching, which makes students learn vividly and actively and reduces their academic burden.
Fifth, student evaluation. Examination-oriented education is mainly screening and evaluation, with test scores as the main or even the only criterion for evaluating students; Quality education requires developmental evaluation, diversified evaluation methods and subjects.
Sixth, the teaching content. The teaching content of exam-oriented education is difficult, which pays too much attention to the subject system and ignores the comprehensive and applied content, and there are some problems in varying degrees, such as being divorced from the reality of students' life and ignoring practice. Quality education reduces the depth and difficulty of teaching content, weakens the subject system, attaches importance to comprehensiveness, and combines teaching content with students' experience and practice.
Seven, the focus of education. Examination-oriented education is limited to schools, and quality education attaches importance to development, lifelong education and lifelong learning.