Study On The Problems Of Teacher Performance Assessment Of Senior High School

As an important part for a school to effectively manage teachers, teacherperformance assessment exerts a significant influence on the improvement of school’seducation quality as well as the promotion of teacher’s professional development. SinceChina employed merit pay system in compulsory education school in January2009,they system has been applied in all schools now. The particularity and complexity ofeducation and teaching, however, result in many problems in the process ofimplementation: in respect of assessment objective, school management, instead ofteacher’s development, is valued; in regard to assessment contents, student’s examresults are mainly used for teacher’s performance assessment; in terms of assessmentmethods, attention is paid to quantitative assessment methods rather than qualitativeones.Starting with the status of teacher performance assessment, this paper points outthat as a result of tendency to managerialism and teacher’s loss of subject consciousness,many problems occur in the process of performance assessment, concerning the aspectsof assessment objectives, methods, contents, results, etc.On the basis of the reflection on the status of teacher performance assessment,this paper summarizes the relevant theories of performance assessment, as well asdescribes related domestic and overseas theories of performance assessment, educationevaluation, and so on. Besides, it clearly defines the relevant concepts aboutperformance assessment, such as, performance, performance assessment, andassessment method. Taking DS high school of Qujing, Yunnan, for example, this paperevaluates the status of its performance assessment and points out the problems.Furthermore, through analyzing the construction principle of assessment system,assessment process and methods, this paper further improves the teacher performanceassessment system of DS High School.