Who Are Good Students

The practice and reform of education are challenging the system of the existentcultivation and evaluation towards students, which urges us to think about theevaluation of excellent students in our education. The article condenses this probleminto the research about the selection standard toward excellent students in school. Thisstandard is the norm that the school evaluates excellent students, by which the countryand society control the students. The series of activities, based on the standard, is oneof the measures by which the country and society singling out the talents. Byresearching the standard how to be established and how to be practiced, we couldhave some insight into the active system of choosing the talents, and the existentproblem in our choice.On the method of research, the article mainly uses the method of qualitativeresearch, getting data by “half-structure interview”. On the other hand, it also adoptsthe historical documents to make a collection and arrangement of the data concerningthe evaluation of the students in certain schools.The article has five chapters. The first chapter aims to find questions, define keywords and offer my mind line. The second chapter is about the historical changes ofthe selection standard toward excellent students in certain schools. In this chapter, thearticle focuses on the development of the selection standard, and find that theselection standard has two characters: continuous but not isolated; slowly “reform”rather than fast “revolution”. The selection standard also present in three orientations:first, from placing the importance on the factor of sponsored to the factor of contested;second, from distinct to indistinct; third, from the abstract general evaluation to theconcrete technical one.The third chapter is about the establishment of the selection standard. The articledescribes the process of the establishment of the standard, and then finds that theselection standard of country always influences that of school strongly, we call it the “strong-controlling” influence. Comparative, the inner factor of school is only the“weak-controlling” influence. This situation makes the establishment of the standardin school as a top-down process that seems executive and directive, which leads to thestandard conservative. The school is discovered to establish the standard in a ratherpassive way, confined by the systematic environment. The article explains thisphenomenon with the institutionalism theory. Confronted with such a powerfulenvironment, the school as an institutional organization, pursues its legality instead ofthe maxim efficiency.The fourth chapter is about the practice of the selection standard. By researchingthe practice of the selection standard in stationary school, we find that the goodstudents have four markings, their score is high, the moral qualities is good, thenatural endowments is precocious and they come from the famous school. Morehe(she) owns these markings, more he(she) is a good student. The good student also isused as a kind of marking showing lots of phenomena, such as the country’s attentiondistributing at particular period, school’s benefits and honor and student’s personalability and hard work. By researching we also find that the practice of the selectionstandard of school do not carry out according to the text of the selection standard.Actually the process is afresh the standard, and sometimes evenly complete" reversal" the text of standard. The thesis used the theory of social network theory to explainthe series of phenomenon.Based on the last conclusion, the article reviews the selection standard in the fifthchapter. Our research finds that the practice of the selection standard alienated fromthe text standard and tried to analyze the alienation. Because the selection standard isone of the measures by which the country and society singling out the talents, wethink that our country’s ideology about selection from students is meritocracy. At last,we suggest that the market and social strength should take part in the establishment ofthe standard. The situation should be formed that country, market and social strengthestablish the standard together in order to construct the multi-standard to supply manykind of talents.