Mathematics Teaching and Academic Assessment: Issue 2

Author: Wang Linquan, Wu Youchang
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: To meet the needs of high school teachers, curriculum developers at various levels, and other education workers for the implementation and promotion of the new curriculum, this issue focuses on a series of problems that arise during the implementation of the new curriculum, with particular emphasis on addressing teaching and evaluation issues based on modules. It analyzes the teaching objectives, content, and various textbooks that have already been published for each subject. Using practical lesson examples and approaches, it provides a specific and in-depth interpretation of the curriculum standards for each subject. It also explores how to evaluate students' module academic performance through diverse methods, offering typical evaluation plans and tools. The content of this issue reflects both some new research findings from professional researchers and the practical experiences of frontline teachers in curriculum implementation. By providing successful case studies, it offers concrete references and guidance for high school teachers and grassroots education workers. This issue is compiled in subject-specific volumes, including nine subjects such as Ideological and Political Education, Chinese, Mathematics, English, Physics, Chemistry, History, Geography, and Biology. Each volume mainly consists of two parts: Part one discusses teaching issues, and the second part focuses on academic performance evaluation. The teaching section emphasizes a strong grasp of the subject's teaching, including the following key content: understanding the curriculum standards of the subject, analyzing the teaching content of the subject, the impact of module-based course structures on teaching, teaching and learning strategies based on modules, including specific implementation and case studies. The evaluation section delves into the understanding of evaluation concepts in the new curriculum, specifically proposing process-based and summative evaluation methods, approaches, and tools for the learning content of each subject. This includes test papers and forms that have been tried and tested in some experimental schools, as well as the methods experimental schools use to recognize module academic performance.
1. Practicality. Directly addresses classroom teaching and evaluation, providing real teaching and evaluation cases from frontline teachers, making it highly operational and easy for teachers to adopt.
2. Targeted Approach. Focuses on solving practical problems in classroom teaching and evaluation, directly serving high school education and teaching, with strong relevance.
3. Scientific Rigor. The lead editors of each subject are university teachers who directly participated in the research projects "Research on High School Student Academic Performance Evaluation under the New Curriculum" and "Guangdong Province Basic Education Curriculum Reform Research" funded by the Ministry of Education. The teaching and evaluation cases provided have been tried and tested and are proven to be successful.
4. Systematic Coverage. The content covers major high school subjects, with authors sharing a consistent teaching guidance philosophy and evaluation concepts, ensuring coordination and mutual reinforcement. This not only provides reference value for teaching and evaluation activities in each subject but also offers a great platform for organizing cross-disciplinary teaching and evaluation research involving teachers from different subjects at the school level.
This series is a research outcome of the Ministry of Education's "Research on High School Student Academic Performance Evaluation under the New Curriculum" and the Guangdong Provincial Education Science "15th Five-Year Plan" key project "Guangdong Province Basic Education Curriculum Reform Research."