Comparison of Assessment Systems and Its Implications

Abstract

Academic achievement assessment in many countries has gradually developed into a mature and complete system. Generally speaking, an assessment system comprises several subsystems including policy support and implementation system, assessment framework and instrument development system, and result analyzing and reporting system. And a scientific, smooth, and highly efficient system guarantees the success of academic achievement assessment, thus constantly raising education quality. Since assessment systems of different international organizations and foreign countries have their own features, comparing and analyzing these features and grasping the overall trend of their development could have profound implications for the building of academic achievement assessment and education quality monitoring system in China.