The function of educational evaluation is the potential and ideal function and ability of educational evaluation system. To play a role in education, we must also have certain external educational environment and conditions, which are reflected by the role of educational evaluation activities and results on the evaluation objects. The structure of education evaluation system determines the function of education evaluation, and the function of education evaluation also restricts and changes the structure of education evaluation system.

In order to give full play to the intrinsic incentive function of educational evaluation and stimulate the emotion of the evaluation object, it is necessary to have certain external environmental conditions. Generally speaking, when participants in education, teaching or learning activities need to make subjective value judgments under the influence of social needs, they may show the intrinsic incentive function of educational evaluation. At the same time, whether the connotation value orientation of evaluation elements conforms to the educational law, the scientific nature of evaluation process operation procedure technology, and the psychology, morality and quality of evaluators will directly or indirectly affect the exertion of incentive function.

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The function of educational evaluation develops with the development of educational evaluation itself and changes constantly with history. Educational evaluation is for identification, examination, promotion and improvement, selection and elimination, education and development, which are two different views of educational evaluation. The purpose of early education evaluation is to "choose children who are suitable for education", so education evaluation focuses on identification and selection functions. It can be said that the purpose of evaluation is to screen children suitable for higher education and eliminate some or most children, so the evaluation method focuses on relative evaluation and summative evaluation.

The purpose of modern education evaluation is to "create an education suitable for children", so education evaluation emphasizes the functions of improvement, encouragement and guidance. Evaluation is to diagnose the needs of the evaluation object, stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the evaluation object, and promote the harmonious development of children's personality, so the evaluation method emphasizes the implementation of absolute evaluation and formative evaluation. With the continuous development of educational evaluation thought, the purpose of educational evaluation is determined by a single educational goal, developed to collect educational information, serve educational decision-making, and then developed to judge educational value, and its function is constantly expanded.

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