| Since the late1980s,"Standard-based Curriculum Reform" has been implemented widely in many countries and curriculum standard has been put in a prominently important position in the basic education reform. Under this background, the issue of the alignment between curriculum standard and achievement assessment has caused wide attention throughout the world. China's regular senior high school academic achievement test is a comprehensive examination system established along with the new curriculum reform in senior high school. In theory, there should be a statistically significant alignment between all subject senior high school academic achievement tests and corresponding subject curriculum standards. Thus researching the issue of alignment between senior high school academic achievement test and curriculum standard has important theoretical and practical value.Senior high school physics academic achievement test is a criterion--referenced test with regular senior high school physics curriculum standard as criterion, and it is implemented by each province (city) under the guidance of the ministry of education. The test's aim is to check the levels of senior high school students'physics academic achievement in the round, and it has great significance for smooth progress and further development of senior high school physics curriculum reform. To adapt with the foundation and selectivity characteristics of senior high school physics curriculum structure, different provinces'(cities') senior high school physics academic achie-vement tests present a diversified characteristic in the aspect of choosing modules. According to the questions that each type students need to choose to accomplish and get eligible mark in order to finish senior high school physics course study tasks, all provinces'(cities') senior high school physics academic achievement test papers are divided into four categories, including test papers combined with common compulsory modules, test papers combined with common compulsory modules and elective1-1module, test papers combined with common compulsory modules and elective2-1module, test papers combined with common compulsory modules and elective3-1module. As we know, the exam content is the key elements of the exam, meanwhile, the alignment between exam and conten standard is the key factors for the success of "Standard-based Curriculum Reform". Are there a significant alignment between senior high school physics academic achievement test papers and physics content standard? This is the key problem of this study.Concretely, the study constitutes of3parts:(1) How to construct a localization analysis framework to check the alignment between senior high school physics academic achievement test papers and senior high school physics content standard based on existed theory fruits?(2) How to analyse senior high school physics content standard and senior high school physics academic achievement test papers according to the alignment analysis framework?(3) What are the specific characteristics of the alignment between each type of senior high school physics academic achievement test papers and senior high school physics content standard?The study has adopted the technical route which is a quantitative research primarily and is supplemented by a qualitative research. In addition, the major research methods include literature method, content analysis method, investigation method, case method. And this thesis is mainly divided inio five parts.The first part of the study has constructed the alignment analysis frameworks to analyse the alignment between senior high school physics content standard and each type of academic achievement test papers, has introduced the method and step of applying the alignment analysis framework to analyse senior high school physics content standard and senior high school physics academic achievement test papers, has introduced the methods and processes of analysing the alignment between test papers and physics content standard taking a test paper as an example.The second part of the study is the alignment analysis between physics content standard and test papers combined with common compulsory modules. The data analysis indicates that there is not a significant alignment between this kind of test papers and physics content standard.(1)the general comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them. The alignment indices between this kind of test papers and physics content standard are significantly lower than the corresponding critical values.(2) the content topics' distribution' comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them. In general, compared with content standard, this kind of test papers have increased the examinational degree of "the description of motion" and "the interactions and motion laws", have reduced the examinational degree of "the achievements and limitations of classical mechanics", and the examinational degree of "the projectile motion and circular motion" and "the mechanical energy and energy" are appropriate.(3)The cognitive levels'distribution' comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them.In general, compared with content standard, this kind of test papers have more emphasized "realize","understand" and "apply", but have de-emphasized "know"The third part of the study is the alignment analysis between physics content standard and test papers combined with common compulsory modules and elective1-1module. The data analysis indicates that there is not a significant alignment between this kind of test papers and physics content standard.(1)the general comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them. The alignment indices between this kind of test papers and physics content standard are significantly lower than the corresponding critical values.(2) the content topics'distribution' comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them. In general, compared with content standard, this kind of test papers have increased the examinational degree of "the description of motion","the interactions and motion laws" and "the projectile motion and circular motion", have reduced the examinational degree of "the achievements and limitations of classical mechanics","the electromagnetic phenomenons and laws","the electromagnetic technologies and social development" and "the household appliances and daily life", and the examinational degree of "the mechanical energy and energy" is appropriate.(3)The cognitive levels'distribution' comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them.In general, compared with content standard, this kind of test papers have more emphasized "realize" and "understand", but have de-emphasized "know"and "apply".The fourth part of the study is the alignment analysis between physics content standard and test papers combined with common compulsory modules and elective2-1module. The data analysis indicates that there is not a significant alignment between this kind of test papers and physics content standard.(1)the general comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them. The alignment indices between this kind of test papers and physics content standard are significantly lower than the corresponding critical values.(2) the content topics'distribution' comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them. In general, compared with content standard, this kind of test papers have increased the examinational degree of "the description of motion" and "the interactions and motion laws", have reduced the examinational degree of "the achievements and limitations of classical mechanics","the circuit and working principle" and "the electromagnetic waves and information technology ", and the examinational degree of "the mechanical energy and energy" and "the projectile motion and circular motion" are appropriate.(3)The cognitive levels' distribution' comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them.In general, compared with content standard, this kind of test papers have more emphasized "realize" and "understand", but have de-emphasized "know", and the examinational degree of "apply" is more appropriate respectively speaking.The fiveth part of the study is the alignment analysis between physics content standard and test papers combined with common compulsory modules and elective3-1module. The data analysis indicates that there is not a significant alignment between this kind of test papers and physics content standard.(1)the general comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them. The alignment indices between this kind of test papers and physics content standard are significantly lower than the corresponding critical values.(2) the content topics'distribution' comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them. In general, compared with content standard, this kind of test papers have increased the examinational degree of "the description of motion" and "the interactions and motion laws" and "the projectile motion and circular motion", have reduced the examinational degree of "the achievements and limitations of classical mechanics","the electric field","the circuit" and "the magnetic field", and the examinational degree of "the mechanical energy and energy" is appropriate.(3)The cognitive levels'distribution' comparisons indicate that there is not a significant alignment between them.In general, compared with content standard, this kind of test papers have more emphasized "realize" and "understand", but have de-emphasized "know", and the examinational degree of "apply" is more appropriate respectively speaking.Research conclusions are drawed according to the above five parts:There is not a statistically significant alignment between senior high school physics academic achievement test and senior high school physics content standard,(1)the general comparisons of the alignment between the test papers and physics content standard indicate that there is not a statistically significant alignment between them.All alignment indices between the test papers and physics content standard are significantly lower than the corresponding critical values, and the alignment indices between the average of each type test papers and physics content standard are also significantly lower than the corresponding critical values.(2) the content topics' distribution' comparisons of the alignment between the test papers and physics content standard indicate that there is not a statistically significant alignment between them.4types of test papers have different features on the content topics' emphasis, but all of them are biased compared with physics content standard. In general, compared with content standard, the test papers have increased the examinational degree of common compulsory modules' content topics(except for "the achievements and limitations of classical mechanics"), and have reduced the examinational degree of elective modules' content topics.(3)The cognitive levels' distribution'comparisons of the alignment between the test papers and physics content standard indicate that there is not a statistically significant alignment between them.4types of test papers have different features on the cognitive levels' emphasis, but all of them are biased compared with physics content standard. In general, compared with content standard, the test papers have more emphasized "realize" and "understand", have de-emphasized "know", and the examinational degree of "apply" is more appropriate respectively speaking.Finally, senior high school physics academic achievement test has been reflected from such aspects as follows:the inconsistence of test with physics content standard will influence the teaching aims of curriculum standard to carry out fully, the absence of evaluation criterion results in the lack of standardization of exam content, and so on. Moreover, some suggestions are served:perfecting legislation for national curriculum examinations, founding perfect senior high school physics education quality monitoring system, constructing scientific senior high school physics academic achievement test evaluation system, and so on.This research is of great significance for riching the research theory of the alignment between academic assessment papers and curriculum standard, building the alignment analysis patterns suited for the chinese situation, promoting the domestic alignment research, promoting the in-depth development of the curriculum reform. And the research results can provide a reference for the improvement of senior high school physics academic achievement test-making. At the same time, the research echoes with the implementation of the national basic education quality monitoring system, so that it can provide a reference for our country to promote the curriculum evaluation reform deeply.
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