基础教育质量监测的国际比较

An International Comparison of Elementary Education Quality Assessment

科技革命推动的信息经济使基础教育及其质量的重要性日益突出,为了提高教育质量,各国纷纷开展大规模教育评价,进行基础教育质量监测。目前,各国进行教育质量监测的组织模式主要有三种:一是组建独立于教育行政部门的专职机构;二是由政府机构以项目的形式委托大学或研究机构来进行;三是由教育部的相关职能部门直接负责。各国多以处于能力发展关键阶段(如小学四年级和初中二年级)的学生为监测对象,以核心学科(阅读和数学)为重点监测内容。我国应建立高效的教育评价机构,进行大规模教育评价,实施体现素质教育的监测,以此来提高我国的基础教育质量。

Human resources now play an increasingly important role in social economy development and international competition, so the quality of the elementary education has more and more come to people＇s attention all over the world. To understand the current situation and improve the education quality, many countries,districts, and international organizations have developed large-scale educational assessments. According to their political tradition, strength, and the developmental level of assessment profession, they have adopted tailored organization pattern to monitor the quality of the core disciplines or multi-disciplines during the critical period of students＇ development, which has an essential role in improving the elementary education. And some international assessments, like PISA and TIMSS, provide a scale with which each participant country can find its own position.