The Geography Of. High School Students To Create The Ability To Evaluate Research

It is an acknowledge and economic times which needs high quality creativepeople cultivated mainly through education,as a result ,the developped countriespay much attention to the reseach on the cultivation of creative people ,so doesChina.However,no matter how advanced the course theories and teaching methordsare,all depend on the teachers and students to realize it.In China,the middle schooleducation is just meeting the examination,which leads to single and rigid evaluatingmethods.All the teachers and students have been working for the examinations andthe percentage of entering a higher school has become the only target.so itnecessary to develop a process evaluation principle and lay emphysis on thecreative ability cultivation.The research on creativity evaluation started early in developed countries hasbeen developed quickly in China recently,however, it is maily on the syntheticaspect , scarcely on the subject one, the former is not suitble for wide use under thepresent chinese branch teaching mode.The writer tries searching for a method toevaluate the geograph creativity using the process of thinking ,which is expected todiversify the evaluation theory as well as accumulate something for the subjectevalutation.The reasearch is based on the creativity theory of Guilford,J.P.who belives that"creative ability appears in the form of divergent thinking",the evaluation of divergentthinking is one from the process thinking and is a simple and valid method.Inrecently years ,psychology regards divergent thinking and convergent thinking asthe basic components of creativity as well as critical thinking the important way tocultivate creativity and the basic condition of scientific development.so theconvergent thinking and critical thinking are the main index of geograpy creativity .The text utilize practical teaching cases to elaborate the steps and principles ofgeography creativity evaluation.based on the student's present knowledge and theteaching outline and schedule, aiming to stimulating the student's creativepassion.The principle is based on the geography characteristic and the fitting ofevaluation and the steps are based on the common testing procedures,using caseelaborations to make testing enumeration methods.The peocess is similar to common test, the text merely lines out the differences,and also it makes detailed grading method according to geography characteristicsand the standards of synthetic creativity, supplementing by cases.The evaluation reliability and validity decides the success and failure of theevaluation, the text elaborates the evaluation relibility and validity by analyzing ageography creativity testing results of grade one.At last ,the writer get a conclusion:the research on geography creativity evaluationshould lay emphysis on the daily teaching process,besides,many problems needs settingfor the theory research deficiency and the writer's theory standard limitation .