Beyond Book Learning
The author is director of the Shenzhen-based 21st Century Education Research Institute
To establish an up-to-date and world-class evaluation system by 2035, an overall plan on educational evaluation reform was issued on October 13, which proposes a four-pronged evaluation approach to be followed in a coordinated manner. In addition, the plan calls for making good use of information technology to make evaluation more effective and objective.
The four-pronged approach refers to improving outcome evaluation, strengthening process evaluation, exploring value-added evaluation and enhancing comprehensive evaluation.
This approach addresses a longstanding problem plaguing the evaluation system, colloquially referred to as the “five-only” malady.
The malady is an overemphasis
