为“什么”而考:高考考查批判性思维的问题反思

What to Test for:The Reflections on Critical Thinking in National College Entrance Examination

新高考各科目考查批判性思维,在引领基础教育改革的同时,也面临观念和技术等方面的困难。高考考查批判性思维,应在学界对批判性思维的共识基础上寻求突破,围绕问题探究、论证、辩证等批判性思维最核心、最可考的关键能力组织命题,为大学和社会选拔急需的创新人才提供支持。这样的测试,蕴含了批判性思维在求真、笃实、明辨等方面的精神品质,跟高考的立德树人宗旨高度一致,并且可以测试为手段作出真实有效的评价。

While leading the reform of basic education,the new college entrance examination,which tests critical thinking in all subjects,faces difficulties in conceptual and technical aspects.Clarifying the misconceptions among them and effectively promoting the examination and research on critical thinking in the college entrance examination is an important part of leading teaching and learning,serving selection and promoting social progress.To this end,the college entrance examination on critical thinking should seek a breakthrough based on the consensus of the academic community on critical thinking,and organize the questions around the core and testable key abilities of critical thinking such as problem inquiry,argumentation and dialectic,so as to provide support for universities and society to select the much-needed innovative talents.Such a test contains the spiritual qualities of critical thinking in seeking truth,sincerity and discernment,which is highly consistent with the purpose of fostering virtue through education in college entrance examinations and can be applied as a means to take the real and effective evaluation.