Nation Of Junior Secondary Students' Academic Evaluation System

Academic evaluation refers to the process of value-judgment on students'development and changes, based on their all aspects of performances in learning activities. Since the1960s, academic evaluation has become one of the most controversial issues on basic education reform in the world. The evaluation is seen as a more feasible way to ensure and improve the quality of education. School education in ethnic areas charged with the dual mandate, improving the quality and the function of National Education are two major problems to be solved. The special status of the academic evaluation make it be the key to solve the above problems, therefore a researcher on which has very important significance.The contents of this study consist of three parts:Part I:Summary of the existing literature to answer questions as Why to study, how to conduct research, and questions about the theoretical foundation or conclusion of current researches.Part II: Two junior high schools in X xian, Yunnan Province of China were selected for case study. Interviews and questionnaire were conducted. It naturally come into two studies as follows:(I), It investigated issues related to academic evaluation of students and teachers in the minority areas. On the basis of in-depth interviews with teachers and students, the questionnaires on academic evaluation were drawn up into Teacher's Edition and Student Edition with three dimensions:awareness of the academic evaluation system, the ideal evaluation constructs awareness of national education". Awareness of the academic evaluation system includes concepts, content, and methods of evaluation. The ideal evaluation constructs contain the evaluation of the current evaluation system and elements of rational constructs. Awareness of national education consists of the perception of differences between ethnic students, understanding of the dual purpose of national education.(II), As ethnic students'learning in the school is also the process of their cultural adaptation, the thesis studied the psychological status of students'adaption to the culture and explored its relationship with students' academic achievement. Which was executed by a questionnaire containing language skills, ethnic identity, strategies taken for adaption and attitude to multi-cultural? Here the academic achievement was represented by students'score in examinations of last semester.In general, the first investigated the academic evaluation in enthic areas on perspectives related to national education and academic assessment, followed by the demonstration in study2with the survey of students' psychological development in minority areas.Part III:based on empirical research and theoretical analysis, the study pointed out the idea about an integrated evaluation system for the comprehensive development, its guiding ideology and inside concepts, as well as specific principles for its implement. The results show that:(1), based on domestic and international academic evaluation literature, the concept of evaluation, its content, evaluation methods, evaluation subject was considered as the four main elements that constitute the academic evaluation system. The concept of evaluation is the overall view of academic evaluation. Content of evaluation direct the implementation of the entire education. Evaluation methods are the specific operation of evaluation. The subjects refer to people and groups leading evaluation activities, the perpetrators of the evaluation activities.(2), the results of questionnaire and interviews with teachers showed that the existing evaluation system in minority areas not only has problem about being consistent with the general education, but also have their own unique problem. Specifically, teachers and students have clear awareness of the differences between students in the area;, though they have strong interest toward ethnic culture but less consciousness of national education. As the concept of evaluation, teachers'understanding of evaluation function is not complete, students instead can effectively use the feedback and development functions; Contents of the existing evaluation fail to access the process and methods of learning, students' emotions, attitudes, values and ethnic culture; using only a single written test, with quality evaluation neglected; teachers are the only subject of evaluation, who think a single written test is inadequate in the evaluation of ideal constructs, stressing much on the evaluation of the students' feelings, attitudes and values. Statistical analysis of cultural adaptation and academic achievements In study2showed that:the familiarity of the students' native language to a certain extent restricted their learning in school, the level of Chinese is positively correlated to students' academic achievement; There is also a positive correlation among students' national identity, cultural attitudes and academic achievement; the choice of acculturation strategies is a very important factor to affect academic achievement.(3) based on empirical investigation and theoretical analysis of multi-cultural integration of education, constructivism evaluation, acculturation and Inheritance of ethnic cultures, the conclusion is that academic evaluation on ethnic students should have concepts reflecting the awareness of the dual purpose of national education, content representing connotation of national cultural education, methods compatible with the students' psychological development evaluation and the subject with a multi-cultural awareness.Based on the above points of view, this study further constructed integrated evaluation system for the comprehensive development. That is, in the process of learning mainstream culture and ethnic culture multiple aspects of performance of students in junior middle school of minority areas should be considered for the assessment and evaluation on students' development and changes. As of the implementation, the government, schools, teachers and parents should bear the responsibility for this system, and some relationship should be properly dealt with.