Efforts to break the ‘score determinism’ and transfer college enrolment from recruiting ‘scores’ to ‘people’: The exploration and practice of comprehensive quality evaluation of general high school students in Shanghai

Abstract

Shanghai has always led college entrance examination reform in China, and has piloted the new round of college entrance examination reform for 5 years. At present, the comprehensive quality evaluation of general high school students has been carried out on a regular basis, and the comprehensive quality evaluation information of graduates of the latest three years has been initially used in college enrollment. The comprehensive quality evaluation adheres to the ‘Education in Five Aspects’, reflecting students’ comprehensive and personalized development. Students actively participate in social practice activities and research-based learning, and use what they have learned to solve real problems in real life. People from all walks of life in Shanghai generally agree with the achievements and experience it has achieved in this reform. The united education system inside and outside the school has been initially established, students’ creative spirits and practical abilities have been strengthened, college and university enrollment has begun to change from recruiting ‘scores’ to ‘people’, etc. On the basis of summarizing the problems existing in the comprehensive quality evaluation raised by some scholars, this paper proposes four action directions such as strengthening the feedback of comprehensive quality evaluation information, enhancing its normalized evaluation, paying more attention to students’ learning process, realizing the better combination of students’ social practice activities and research-based learning, and improving the ability of college enrollment selection.