Evaluation reform is the biggest difficulty in the curriculum reform of basic education, so it is bound to become the key link for the further development of new curriculum experiments. It is one of the important tasks of the new curriculum experiment to construct an educational evaluation system that promotes the growth of students, the development of teachers and the continuous improvement of school education quality. In the past two years, the national curriculum reform experimental area has faced difficulties. With the deepening of the new curriculum experiment, the reform of evaluation and examination in primary and secondary schools has made a breakthrough, and the contents, methods and means of evaluation have undergone profound changes. There are superficial, visible and empathetic changes here, but deeper and less obvious changes affect future changes. Teachers are creating new evaluation methods and interpreting the true meaning of evaluation with wisdom. In this seemingly ordinary evaluation, it sublimates the realm of education, transcends the traditional concept and embodies the essential significance of education.
1 Evaluation is a "water pump" to stimulate students' development.
"For the development of every student" is the core idea of this curriculum reform. The establishment of this concept is a major breakthrough in evaluation reform. What this concept pursues is not to give students an accurate conclusion, let alone compare their own grades or scores with others, but to understand the needs of students' development, pay attention to the differences of the evaluated, pay attention to the progress and changes of students in the learning process, give timely evaluation and feedback, help students understand themselves, and emphasize the promotion of students through feedback, and promote their improvement on the original basis. Use an image metaphor: evaluation is no longer a sieve for grading, but a pump to encourage students to develop.
Developmental evaluation is not only an educational idea, but also an educational method, which is integrated into every class and every educational link, making it a subtle educational tool.
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As an effective way of communication between teachers and students, evaluation runs through classroom teaching. These seemingly ordinary and unusual words of teachers are the sunshine of children and the life of the classroom, which greatly stimulates the interest and initiative of children's participation and provides students with room for development to the maximum extent. This evaluation method of low starting point, small goal, diligent evaluation and quick feedback is the most interesting, acceptable and resonated with children.
Modern psychology shows that when a good behavior of students appears, if it can be recognized in time, it will produce some psychological satisfaction, form a happy psychological state, and make similar behaviors continue to work hard to a higher level. Nowadays, oral evaluation has become a reflection of teachers' educational wisdom and ability. The methods and techniques of evaluation have also changed. A girl failed to repeat the grade in teacher Yin Yulan's class of experimental primary school in Ning 'an City, Heilongjiang Province. She is often criticized and pressured. She always looks at the teacher with timid eyes every day. One day, her handwriting was particularly serious. Teacher Yin smiled and said, "Come on, shake hands and congratulate you on your progress." After school, she ran home and told her mother excitedly, "Today, the teacher shook hands with me. I dare to talk to the teacher. " From then on, children's eyes no longer avoid the teacher, talking and laughing every day, and learning has become subjective.
Teachers give students a smile, a look, a thumbs-up approval, a pat on the shoulder and a handshake thanks with full enthusiasm, full spirit and rich emotions, all of which are evaluations. Like a faint fragrance of flowers, and like a clear spring. This evaluation is simple, direct and effective. Although there is no scale and can't be recorded, it plays an important role in the growth of students. Who can say it's not an evaluation?
3 growth records record growth
While reforming the traditional evaluation method, the experimental school also adopted a new scientific, effective and simple method. As a new evaluation method, growth record bag (or portfolio) has been widely used in Chinese, mathematics, foreign languages, science, art and other disciplines. Reflect students' efforts and progress in the process of achieving their goals, and encourage students to achieve higher achievements through their own reflection and improvement. 4. Let students become the main body of evaluation
Who is the subject of evaluation? This is an unavoidable problem in evaluating reform. Teachers used to be evaluators.
It is absolute authority, and students only passively accept evaluation. Now the subject of evaluation is changing. Experimental schools encourage students themselves, classmates and parents to participate in evaluation, so that students can learn to evaluate themselves.
Some people may ask, "Do students have the ability of self-evaluation? How do middle school students make an objective and correct evaluation of their behavior? " Please look at a middle school student's self-evaluation process: once, he handed in a writing assignment and gave himself an A+. After reading it, the teacher gave an A and wrote a comment: "The handwriting should be neat." After the students got the exercise book, they wrote a sentence to remind themselves: "The handwriting should be neat."
The second time he finished his homework, he gave himself an A++. When the teacher judged the homework, he removed a+ and wrote another sentence: "The word is too big." When the students finished their homework for the third time, they wrote another sentence in their notebooks:
"Write in small print." After finishing his homework, he gave himself an A++. The teacher got a satisfactory A++ in this assignment.
In order to cultivate students' self-evaluation ability, a small booth is set up on the wall of each classroom. Students can post their best homework, creative works and math diary at any time. They can make their own choices, think independently, learn to compare, reflect and adjust their learning behavior in this space. The teacher also designed a notebook for students, which set up some small columns "I went to school today, I can record it." "I spoke in class today. I gave myself a star. " Students evaluate themselves by drawing and pasting according to their own performance. For example, in the column "I am confident that I can do it", students think they have done it, so they color the corresponding column and say "I have made progress"
In the column, students stick red flowers and peaches according to their own progress. Students like this evaluation method very much, and fill in their experiences and feelings every time to encourage them to learn to reflect. A classmate commented on himself: "I learned a lot of words in this unit, and I am very satisfied with myself." It can be seen that he has established self-confidence and his subsequent learning attitude must be positive.
Psychology tells us that when individuals know the qualities of others, they begin to form their own evaluation ability. Only in the evaluation of others can we constantly adjust our self-evaluation. In experimental schools, teachers not only let students evaluate themselves, but also let students evaluate each other.
Teachers said: "Everything we do is to inspire students' positive spirit. "
These are the teachers in the experimental area. They have created a brand-new educational evaluation and a bright future for their children in the new curriculum experiment with hard work and wisdom.
5. Create a brand-new learning evaluation
The experimental results of more than one year show that the new evaluation concept has been widely recognized and accepted, and it has been embodied in education and teaching practice to some extent. However, due to the mutual influence and restriction between evaluation and examination reform, partial and single reform is often difficult to achieve results, so we must pay attention to several links and the whole process of evaluation at the same time. How to evaluate the teaching quality of the school? How to evaluate students' learning situation? It is still the biggest problem facing the curriculum reform.
Learning evaluation is the most important evaluation in students' life and the core content of evaluation reform. Therefore, the experimental area focuses on academic performance evaluation and examination reform.