Behind the scenes of Zhejiang college entrance examination pilot program: revised more than 30 times in 2 years.

Behind the scenes of Zhejiang college entrance examination pilot program: revised more than 30 times in 2 years.

What's the story behind the curtain of college entrance examination reform? Qian Bao reporter interviewed the director of the Provincial Department of Education.

Liu Xiping reveals the secret: Why is the pilot in Zhejiang?

Our reporter Wang

The reform of the new college entrance examination is under the responsibility of the Ministry of Education, and the top-level design is carried out through "selecting qualified provinces and cities". Earlier, news of the pilot project came from relevant provinces, and Zhejiang and Shanghai were finally finalized, becoming the two pilot areas in China.

As early as the end of last year, Zhejiang has drawn up a reform plan for college entrance examination enrollment. After the national plan of the Ministry of Education is promulgated, it will be adjusted according to the national plan and then announced to the public. At that time, Liu Xiping, director of Zhejiang Education Department, said that Zhejiang was striving to become a pilot province, but it had not yet been determined.

The Ministry of Education finally chose Zhejiang. Yesterday, Liu Xiping attributed the reason to the fact that Zhejiang has a good foundation for comprehensive high school new curriculum reform and college entrance examination enrollment reform. As the saying goes, "the wind rises at the end of qingping, and gradually deepens."

Why is the pilot in Zhejiang?

Because there is a good foundation for educational reform.

This is an era that is surprisingly fast.

Two years ago, in September, Zhejiang began to fully implement the "deepening curriculum reform in senior high schools", reducing compulsory courses and increasing elective courses, giving students more choices and giving full play to their specialties and advantages.

At that time, the reporter of qianjiang evening news predicted that 10 years later, the college entrance examination reform would be matched with the new curriculum reform in senior high schools, giving students more autonomy. At that time, Liu Xiping still had some helplessness. The college entrance examination system linked with the curriculum reform in senior high schools is designed at the national level, and Zhejiang hopes to carry out the college entrance examination reform earlier at the national level.

If the college entrance examination reform is in the foreseeable future, it means that the new curriculum reform in senior high school will go a little unsteady, with one foot moving forward and one foot still in place. This situation will make parents and high school teachers worry and feel tired.

Only two years later, the national college entrance examination reform plan was released, and Zhejiang and Shanghai became the two pilot areas in the country.

Liu Xiping has arranged a timetable for Zhejiang's "gradual deepening" reform in recent years:

In 2008, Zhejiang carried out a small-scale examination subject reform for the college entrance examination. Usually test English listening, general technology and information technology. Candidates can take two exams in each subject and choose their own test scores.

In 2009, Zhejiang college entrance examination subjects were classified, and candidates could choose from three batches. The first batch of subjects, on the basis of maintaining the original "3+X" combination, add self-selected module assessment; The second batch of subjects, maintaining the original "3+X" subject combination; In the third batch of subjects, on the basis of maintaining the "extra language" of the same subject, the technical subject examination is added. Candidates can choose independently and take the exam according to their own abilities.

After the implementation of this plan, Wang Jianguo, director of the Student Affairs Office of the Ministry of Education, said in a survey that "I saw hope in Zhejiang and strengthened my confidence in promoting the reform of college entrance examination".

20 1 1 Zhejiang college entrance examination enrollment took the lead in trying the "trinity" and implementing comprehensive evaluation and merit-based admission.

20 12 Zhejiang began to comprehensively deepen the new curriculum reform in senior high schools, offering elective courses and shift teaching to ordinary senior high school students, reducing compulsory courses and increasing elective courses. Compulsory courses also began to be taught in different levels, and flexible time was implemented to give students more choices.

Liu Xiping explained that the purpose of deepening the curriculum reform in senior high school at that time was to find a variety for students.

The road to development. Before, in ordinary high schools, it seemed that there was only one way for a long time: further education. Education is more of a standardized training, so that everyone grows up in the same mold. But some people are naturally interested in doing it; Some people are naturally interested in art; Some people are naturally interested in mathematics ... if they study in a unified way, they will learn very painfully. Deepening the curriculum reform is to let children learn happily and learn something beneficial and suitable for him in the future.

20 13 Zhejiang province will raise the level of ordinary high school academic level examination to the national examination requirements. The examination is arranged in standardized test sites and examination rooms; Implement unified proposition, unified examination, unified marking and unified evaluation results in the whole province; The general examination is held twice a year, and students can choose to take the examination twice in each subject and choose one of the results; The report is graded.

This provides institutional support for the inclusion of high school academic level test scores in college entrance examination scores.

In addition, reforms such as parallel volunteer in Zhejiang College Entrance Examination, early enrollment in higher vocational colleges, and single examination and single recruitment have been implemented for many years.

"The classification of Zhejiang college entrance examination subjects in 2009 is logically consistent with the classification examination of the current college entrance examination reform plan; 20 1 1 The combination of comprehensive evaluation, academic level examination and unified college entrance examination proposed by Zhejiang Trinity Enrollment is also consistent with the reform plan of the new college entrance examination this year. 20 12 deepen the new curriculum reform in senior high school, implement the credit system, shift system and flexible class hours, which is completely consistent with the idea of promoting students and colleges to choose examination subjects independently in the college entrance examination enrollment reform, and implement the combination of compulsory subjects and selected subjects in the college entrance examination. " Liu Xiping said.

Great influence and great ideological trend originated from the subtle place, and Zhejiang obtained the qualification of "pilot" step by step.

Why are so many subjects designed?

Because I want students to have personalized choices.

The reform plan of college entrance examination is complex and full of details, but the core of the reform is very clear: to solve the disadvantages of "one exam for life" and give students and schools more choices to conform to the law of talent cultivation and growth.

The right to choose, or the idea of selective education, was expounded by Liu Xiping on numerous occasions or conferences during his tenure as director of Zhejiang Education Department.

When deepening the curriculum reform in senior high school, he said, "I imagine that after years of efforts, this reform with' choice' as the main theme will bear fruit and the unified scale of educating people will be completely changed. To measure learning, one more ruler will increase the success of a group of children. "

Liu Xiping made an estimate at that time: 10 years.

The introduction of the new college entrance examination reform plan will greatly shorten the forecast of 10.

"The college entrance examination is really a baton. It has a great influence on real education. It will force the new curriculum reform in high school, give students what to learn and what to test, and give them more choices. " Liu Xiping compared "the right to choose" to the key to understand the reform plan of the new college entrance examination. When he understood the right to choose, he understood the new college entrance examination.

"To understand our college entrance examination reform, why are so many subjects designed for children to choose, so many exam opportunities for children to choose, just to promote the individualized development of students, so that students can freely combine and mix arts and sciences.

If you can cross the border, the child will not have to entangle his own shortcomings, so that he can better taste his own success. "

"We all agree now that education suitable for children is the best education. But what kind of education is suitable for children is difficult for us to set in advance. Selective education is to find out what is suitable for children in the process of learning and teaching. It is not a child's first choice, it must be his interest and ability. He also relies on selection, trial and adjustment. "

"What I am most worried about now is that parents interfere too much with their children's choices. Lao Zhang's children have enrolled their own students, and my children have also gone to learn the Olympic Mathematics. The children of the Lao family have recruited special students, and my children have to learn ... What parents have to do is not to follow the trend, but to discover the uniqueness of their children and discover their specialties, rather than setting them in advance according to other people's experience. " The reform of the new college entrance examination in Zhejiang only kicked off yesterday, and there are still many difficulties in implementation. Liu Xiping's biggest concern at present is the conflict of many expectations. "I understand that all sectors of society have high expectations for the college entrance examination reform plan, but at present many expectations cannot be realized, and even many expectations are contradictory. For example, experts hope to give colleges and universities more independent enrollment rights, but parents may want more rigid requirements to ensure fairness and justice in enrollment. We can only continue to explore and make the system more reasonable and fair. I think the future will always get better and better. "

The experimental plan announced yesterday.

It has been revised more than 30 times.

"From the first draft to the announcement of the plan yesterday, according to my estimation, it has been revised more than 30 times from top to bottom." A middle school principal who participated in the research on the pilot scheme of Zhejiang college entrance examination reform revealed yesterday.

A staff member of the education administrative department who participated in the drafting and revision of the plan told Qianbao reporter that the basic pattern of the plan at the end of 20 13 was consistent with the current plan, such as no distinction between arts and sciences, multiple examinations for selected subjects, etc. And every modification and adjustment is some details. For example, in the early scheme, academic examinations were graded. When the grading system was changed, the original idea was 5 points for each grade. Later, the high school principal suggested that the difference in grades was too great, and later it was changed to 3 points per grade.

The staff member revealed that the proposal solicited opinions, and the most invited were high school principals, including principals' representatives from key middle schools, rural middle schools and ordinary middle schools, followed by opinions from provinces, universities, experts, NPC deputies and CPPCC members within a certain range.

As a reform at the national level, the college entrance examination reform program requires high confidentiality. A middle school principal said: "We all have confidentiality requirements when attending meetings. We can't take notes, record or take photos on the spot. The plan is ok, but it can't be taken out and can't be interpreted individually. "

"The new college entrance examination reform is a systematic project. The change of college entrance examination mode has led to the change of school management. Traditional classes, traditional teaching processes and curriculums must be redesigned, students should get career guidance ... The most important thing is that students must learn to choose independently. " A headmaster said that there was a lot of pressure in the middle, which especially tested the wisdom and art in execution.

Zhejiang Province

The college entrance examination pilot program requires that colleges and universities should announce the scope of major (class) elective subjects and other elective conditions in advance. 20 16 10, Zhejiang will implement the multiple examination for the first time. Can colleges and universities outside the province announce the scope of examination in advance for the Zhejiang pilot?

The staff of the Provincial Department of Education said yesterday that the Ministry of Education has put forward requirements for universities outside the province, and Zhejiang candidates and parents need not worry.

A high school principal revealed a more detailed timetable. It is said that before May next year, colleges and universities will put forward requirements for students' compulsory subjects according to professional requirements.

Chinese, mathematics and foreign languages are unified national examinations. Can Zhejiang still make its own proposition?

The staff of Zhejiang Education Department said that so far, the Ministry of Education has not made a clear statement. However, it is mentioned in the national college entrance examination reform plan that the national unified proposition will be gradually increased, so Zhejiang is still waiting for the unified arrangement of the country. In the college entrance examinations of 20 16 and 20 16, Chinese and mathematics are independent propositions in Zhejiang, and the written foreign language test is also an independent proposition in Zhejiang. Listening is entrusted to the National Examination Center.