考試政策新嘗試：美國(guó)新罕布什爾州
出國(guó)留學(xué)網(wǎng)訊，目前美國(guó)傳統(tǒng)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化測(cè)試正受到各種爭(zhēng)議，一些學(xué)校試著改變考試政策，新罕布什爾州的學(xué)校推行當(dāng)?shù)刈灾髟O(shè)計(jì)的考試政策的方案也得到了聯(lián)邦政府的允許，日趨人性化的考試形式將逐漸在全國(guó)范圍內(nèi)推行。
NASHUA, N.H. — A cluster of public school districts in New Hampshire is radically redefining testing and accountability in a first-of-its-kind pilot project approved Thursday by the US Department of Education.
新罕布什爾州的公立學(xué)校聚集區(qū)NASHUA周四在美國(guó)教育部的批準(zhǔn)下首次徹底重新定義了測(cè)試體制。
At a time when cries of “overtesting” from parents and teachers are growing louder across the nation, and when Congress is working to rewrite the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, the experiment will be watched closely.
在全國(guó)教師和家長(zhǎng)對(duì)過(guò)度測(cè)評(píng)的抗議聲越來(lái)越大的時(shí)候，國(guó)會(huì)正致力于重新頒布一個(gè)名為“No Child Left Behind"的聯(lián)邦教育法規(guī)，此法規(guī)在新罕布什爾州的試行將會(huì)受到密切關(guān)注。
“It fits into a much bigger conversation about ... how we can create a humane assessment system that’s useful to teachers but also useful to states and the federal government for holding schools accountable,” says Julia Freeland, a research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, based in San Mateo, Calif.
克萊頓克里斯坦森研究所的工作人員Julia Freeland說(shuō)：“這個(gè)試驗(yàn)將引起更多思考和討論..比如我們?cè)鯓硬拍軇?chuàng)造一個(gè)既對(duì)教師有益又能保持學(xué)校責(zé)任感的比較人性化的評(píng)估系統(tǒng)?”
One of the most promising aspects of the pilot is how it has paid attention to research on developing “intrinsic motivation in learners,” says Kim Carter, executive director of the Q.E.D. Foundation, a nonprofit in Amherst, N.H., that supports competency-based education. “That’s an outcome we have to have.”
Kim Carter說(shuō)道：“新體制的其中一個(gè)優(yōu)勢(shì)是它注重對(duì)開(kāi)發(fā)學(xué)生內(nèi)在創(chuàng)造力的研究，這也是我們需要的結(jié)果”，他主張以能力為基礎(chǔ)的教育，是新罕布什爾州一個(gè)非營(yíng)利組織的執(zhí)行總裁。
Not only does the PACE pilot “reduce the level of testing, which has reached a level of insanity,” says Mr. Schaeffer, but it shifts toward “better measures of what students know and can do.” It “is a potentially significant crack in the wall of government-mandated standardized testing, not just for New Hampshire, but nationally,” he says.
新測(cè)試體制不僅能改善已經(jīng)瘋狂化的傳統(tǒng)考試，而且可以更好地評(píng)估學(xué)生的水平。它不僅是新罕布什爾州對(duì)政府規(guī)定的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)化測(cè)試的挑戰(zhàn)，也是全國(guó)范圍內(nèi)對(duì)考試制度的改革和創(chuàng)新。
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