Study On Using The Experience Of PISA For Reference To Optimize The Test Items Of Ordinary High School Geography Academic Achievement Test

Under the improvement of China’s and international education evaluation reform,the ordinary high school geography academic achievement test is also reforming activelyin Anhui. It is advancing with the times and developing with innovation. But comparingwith the same category tests, it really started late and its development time is too short.There is a lot to be further optimized, for example, the development of test items. PISA isplanned and carried out by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development(OECD). It is an international comparison program of global students’ learning quality.Because PISA can represent the international advanced level on academic achievementtest, it is recognized as “World Cup” in the area of education. As the saying goes,“stonesfrom other hills we can learn”. From the angle of item development, this paper studies onhow to use the experience of PISA for reference to optimize the test items of ordinaryhigh school geography academic achievement test, which can promote the continuousdevelopment and improvement of ordinary high school geography academic achievementtest of our province.First, this paper fully discussed the problems existing in the ordinary high schoolgeography academic achievement test items of Anhui in order to learn from PISAaccurately. Through researching in the Ordinary high school geography academicachievement evaluation report of Anhui province of nearly two years, the questionnaireof high school geography teachers and the admitted students of both arts and sciences ofsenior two, the author obtained the specific problems of ordinary high school geographyacademic achievement test in our province. In order to solve these problems effectively,studies of the third chapter was from the angle of comparison and analysis of test items.It tried to draw lessons from PISA to find the way to solve the problems. The fourthchapter was based on the third. First, proposed the feasible test items’ directions ofoptimization that was suited the situation of our province and designed a test framework(prototype) for the test items’ development of ordinary high school geography academicachievement test in our province. Secondly, based on the test framework and the goal ofoptimized directions, the research developed the geography questions. Third, mixed the geographic optimization test questions with ordinary high school geography academicachievement test items of our province in2013. Fourth, both arts and science studentshad a test by using the mixed questions in our province. After then the author carried outquestionnaires for these students and some high school geography teachers. Finally,through the data analysis, the article proved the feasibility of these geographicoptimization questions in our province; and the optimization directions of the test itemswere performable.Through the study of literature, the author found that Chinese scholars had verylittle study on the ordinary high school geography achievement test of Anhui Province.Studies on the test items were much less. There was almost no research on using PISA tooptimize the test items of ordinary high school geography academic achievement test ofAnhui Province. Therefore, from the related situation to view, this research was verydifficult. The literature can be used for reference was rare. But, opportunity and challengewere coexisting. The author believed that the expected goal would be able to reach byunremitting efforts.Depending on all above study, it shows that the suggested optimized directions forsolving the problems of the ordinary high school geography test items in our province arebasically feasible.