Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Academic Evaluation for New Course Students

Author: Wu Weining
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This series is a course guidance book that combines theory with practice. It is written to address a series of issues encountered or to be encountered in curriculum reform. It introduces international cutting-edge research on curriculum and teaching while analyzing the progress of new curriculum research and implementation in China, presenting new achievements in curriculum and teaching research. The series aims to provide readers at different levels with the knowledge and valuable insights they need, offering constructive guidance for the advancement of schools, the development of teachers, and the growth of students. We hope this series can attract the attention of faculty and students in teacher training institutions and encourage their active participation in driving this reform.
This book addresses the hot and challenging issues in new curriculum reform—the evaluation of students' academic performance. In an era of rampant utilitarianism and a lack of integrity systems, closed-book written exams have almost become the only trusted evaluation method, leading to a misalignment in school education, especially in teaching, trapping many teachers and students in a narrow focus on exams. The new curriculum proposes the task of establishing a developmental evaluation system. What exactly is developmental evaluation? How did it come about? How can it be implemented in practice? This book explores both theory and practice, introducing theoretical perspectives and evaluation methods that support developmental evaluation, as well as successful evaluation cases and methods obtained from practical experience. Some of these are the result of the author's personal research and practice, making them highly practical and actionable.