Moving Towards Diversified Evaluation: The Concepts, Methods, and Practices of Evaluating Primary School Students' Learning Abilities

Author: Zhang Chunli
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book is the outcome of the key project "Research on the Evaluation of Competencies in Primary School Mathematics and Chinese under the New Curriculum" under the National Education Science "Fifteenth Five-Year" Plan. The author combines the reform experiments of primary school mathematics and Chinese curricula, employing vivid subject evaluation cases and comments, as well as teachers' personal experiences and parents' simple dialogues, to explore, analyze, and introduce diverse evaluation methods and approaches. For example, how to implement and record daily observations, how to design effective paper-and-pencil test questions, how to establish and improve comment systems, how to develop and evaluate performance-based tasks in mathematics and Chinese, how to establish and analyze students' portfolio records, how to conduct "secondary evaluations" for students, as well as school-home collaboration, teacher-student joint participation in evaluation, and the diversification of themes, etc. Each chapter is elaborated and analyzed in terms of "problem, solution, case study, and reflection," systematically summarizing the teaching experiments of the project team and the rich experience accumulated in practice. Moreover, they integrate theory with practice, accumulating a large number of evaluation case studies. This book is highly practical and offers significant reference value for primary school teachers and other practitioners, as well as relevant researchers.