Research On The Contents And Forms Of IT's Summative Evaluation In Junior Middle School

The quality of information technology (IT) curriculum is the hot question that society and schools generally pay close attention to at present. The Ministry of Education issued"Guidance on Speeding up Elementary and Middle schools Information technology Curriculum Construction (Draft)"indicating the development trend for elementary and middle schools information technology curriculum construction in our country. This document has indicated the task of the elementary and middle schools'IT curriculum. It has also given some guidance notes on the content and the appraisal method of the IT curriculum. However, as IT education started late in our country, and the new high school IT curriculum standard has just been published, there is a lack of study on the particularity of IT teaching evaluation in elementary and middle schools, as well as evaluation practice under the new curriculum standard.Based on the analysis of questionnaire, we come to the conclusion that in Shandong Province, the summative evaluation of IT curriculum in elementary and middle schools is not ideal at present. Many schools do not have summative evaluation in any form at all, not to mention the scientific nature of it. Though the summative evaluation is carried out in some areas or schools, it is too unitary and untypical to be widely used. In contrast, in developed countries in IT education, such as England, the USA, India and so on, the summative evaluation has more superiority in the content, form and result processing. Lessons can be drawn from their success to apply to our practice.The author selected the content and form of IT curriculum summative evaluation in junior middle school as research object, and then carried on a case study. I hoped that the research could provide some reference for the teaching staff. The paper only slightly pondered theory and practice of IT curriculum summative evaluation in elementary and middle schools on behalf of the author. Taking this paper as the beginning, I hoped I could carry out the rigorous practical research together with the front line teaching staff and IT education researchers, and explore the evaluation method that can enhance the students'study and the teachers'teaching.The thesis is divided into six chapters, including theory and practice.In the first chapter the author mainly introduced the present research background, the research goal, the research significance. Then defined some basic concepts involved in this paper, like appraisal, summative evaluation, summative evaluation in information technology and so on.In Chapter 2, the author introduced the successful experience of IT education evaluation in England and the USA, pointed out the inspiration that both countries gave us in the deivelopment of IT education evaluation.In the third chapter, the author intended to use the content—goal bidirectional detailed table to withdraw the content spot in IT books of the junior middle school to make the evaluation content concrete and finally construct the content system of IT summative evaluation.The author elaborated the form and result processing of IT curriculum summative evaluation in the fourth chapter. In evaluation form, the author profitted from the research of Professor Li Yi, the title of which is"A Research on Information technology New Curriculum Summative Evaluation in High school". Based on the analysis in Chapter 3, the author gave out the corresponding relations between topics in test and the minute value.In Chapter 5, the author designed a test paper used for summative evaluation in Yanzhou No. 20 Middle School and also implemented it in this school on Dec. 27, 2007.After analyzing the test results, the author picked out the topics which were not satisfying and did some revision. Then, the test was put into practice for the second time. Finally, a relative science test paper for summative evaluation was obtained.At the end of the thesis, a summary concerning theory and practice, as well as deficiency existing in the process of research were displayed. Besides, the author summarized the future research direction.