History Academic Examination For The New Curriculum In High School

As the common method to estimate learning result, the history academic examination works well both in encouraging student to study history and in improving lesson instruction. The academic examination reform under the new curriculum background takes our focus. We should analyze history academic examination papers since the new curriculum is carried out, which are being used in individual high schools, obtain an overview of current practice details in those schools, thus be able to master experience and lesson during development process of their examination papers. It is really meaningful and really worthy for us to do so, not only to improve current academic examination, but also to carry forward the examination evaluation reform so as to ensure the new curriculum reform proceed smoothly.This paper takes academic examination papers from Shanghai high school as research target. We collected papers on city level, on area level, and on school level, to gather various indicators and data that can reflect examination quality, then perform analysis on them. The purpose is, by revealing issues found in the history academic examination, to present valuable suggestion for the improvement of the history academic examination's quality.We launch the research from the following three aspects:(1) Through an analysis of contents, the number and the form of the questions, and also by of the examination papers, then by analyzing the examination paper standard, we found the coverage is good, the direction is correct and it reflects the education reform, but there are issues in some aspects, such as the key content, topic diversification, standardization, and so on.(2) By analyzing proposition quality according to 3-dimension goal and learning capability, we found that current examination papers work hard to reflect the 3-dimension goal but issues exist in proposition technology. It's obvious that further research and development is still needed to make the examination topics conformed to the curriculum requirement. (3) By computing difficulty and discrimination of examination papers, we could reorganize and analyze their quality, and also by comparing with typical proposition technology, the probable root cause which brings about the issues is concluded, thus provides experience and lessons for establishment of scientific and reasonable examination paper.