On the Evaluation Method of Autonomous Learning Ability of the Chinese and Foreign Students

Abstract

Chinese and foreign scholars have done a lot of research on the evaluation method of students' autonomous learning ability. When the autonomous learning is taken as an ability to evaluate, there are mainly three kinds of evaluation methods: questionnaires, interviews and teacher assessment. When the autonomous learning is taken as a process of learning to study, there are mainly four kinds of evaluation methods: thinking aloud evaluation method, error detection method, trace analysis method and the method of behavior observation. Analyzing the evaluation method of the Chinese and foreign students' autonomous learning ability has important significance both for theoretical and applied research, and for evaluating the students' autonomous learning ability scientifically and reasonably. Chinese and foreign scholars have done a lot of research on the evaluation of students' autonomous learning ability. There is a problem that evaluating students' autonomous learning ability whether engage in the theory or in the application of students' autonomous learning ability. The theory researchers need measurement results of the autonomous learning ability to verify their theoretical analysis, especially the analysis of the composition of the autonomous learning ability. The application research illustrates the effects of educational interventions through the measurement of autonomous learning ability. It can also identify the individual differences of students' autonomous learning ability so that teachers can teach students in accordance with their aptitude. This paper analyzes the evaluation method of the Chinese and foreign students' autonomous learning ability, which has important significance both for theoretical and applied research, and for evaluating the students' autonomous learning ability scientifically and reasonably. At present, Chinese and foreign researchers mainly adopts two kinds methods to evaluate the ability of autonomous learning. One regards it as a kind of ability and the other regard it as an event or activity or a learning process. The researchers adopt different evaluation methods according to their different aspects.