College Entrance Examination Reform Research Articles

How to Enhance Functional Adequacy in Senior High School Students’ Writing

With the reform of the new college entrance examination, senior high school English writing has received great attention. The English Curriculum Standards for Senior High Schools (2017 Edition Revised in 2020) proposes that English teaching in senior high schools should focus on cultivating students’ core competence in the English discipline. In particular, English writing, which can fully reflect students’ comprehensive English application skills, plays a significant role in English learning. However, according to current learning situation, the writing performance among senior high school students is not satisfactory. In the recent years, the importance of functional adequacy as an essential component of L2 proficiency has been observed by some scholars. Based on this, this study highlights the effectiveness of functional adequacy in facilitating students’ writing performance and emphasizes the importance of developing students’ pragmatic writing ability. Also, this study explores how to develop functional adequacy in senior high school students’ writing and puts forward some pedagogical implications of improving pragmatic performance in writing for English teachers.

The new college entrance examination reform investigation and research on comprehensive quality evaluation

The comprehensive quality evaluation is an evaluation system that identifies and explores students’ strengths. By examining the developmental progress of pilot provinces that have implemented comprehensive quality evaluation, valuable insights and guidance can be derived for other provinces preparing to adopt this evaluation approach. This study conducts an investigation and research on students, teachers, and middle managers from 12 high schools in two pilot areas, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces. Using a combination of empirical and qualitative research methods, it aims to explore the levels of satisfaction and recognition among different research subjects regarding the current implementation situation and analyze the existing issues in the current implementation process. According to the corresponding theory, an in-depth analysis is conducted from four dimensions to uncover the underlying causes of the problem, while proposing recommendations to enhance and advance comprehensive quality evaluation. These recommendations are first to enhance further the standard level of matching and integration in comprehensive quality evaluation; second to augment the utilization level of comprehensive quality evaluation; third to elevate the significance of comprehensive quality evaluation results; and fourth to improve the credit rating system associated with comprehensive quality evaluation.

Research on the Application of 5E Teaching Model in Senior English Writing Teaching

Writing, as a pivotal part of English language teaching, provides an important platform for cultivating students’ core competencies and reflects students’ comprehensive language application ability and language expression ability as well. With the reform of the new college entrance examination, the difficulty of the writing section has increased. Thus, how to adapt to the reform of the college entrance examination and explore new writing teaching methods has become a widely concerned issue among front-line high school teachers. Based on the analysis of the connotation and elements of the 5E teaching model, as well as the current situation of writing teaching, this study combines the 5E teaching model with writing teaching, aiming to explore new effective teaching models, promote reform of writing teaching, and improve the quality of writing teaching.

Application of Schema Theory in English Reading Comprehension Teaching in Senior High School

English reading is a basic language skill, and the level of English reading comprehension is directly related to the level of learners’ language ability. In recent years, the new curriculum standards and the new college entrance examination reform have put forward higher requirements for high school students’ English reading comprehension ability. However, English teachers pay much more attention to vocabulary, sentence patterns and grammar knowledge, and to some extent neglect the cultivation of the cultural knowledge, genre structure and reading strategies at present. English reading teaching based on schema theory emphasizes linguistic knowledge as the basis, activating the existing schema, enriching the background knowledge and grasping the discourse structure, so as to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the text. Therefore, this paper combines schema theory with English reading teaching, and analyzes how to effectively use schema theory to help students effectively read and improve their reading ability from three stages: before reading, while reading and after reading.

Application of 7E Teaching Methods in Classroom Teaching under the Background of the New College Entrance Examination Reform—Taking High School Biology "Active transportation" Teaching as an Example

The reform of the new college entrance examination has put forward brand-new requirements for the teaching of current disciplines. The new college entrance examination not only requires students to be able to master knowledge,but also requires students to learn to learn in the process of learning, to master the method of learning, and to improve the core qualities of disciplines. This paper explores the 7E teaching model, taking the teaching of "active transport" in high school biology as an example, and practices teaching based on the 7E teaching model, through stimulation (creating a situation to stimulate students' desire for knowledge), participation (guiding students to participate in the learning of new knowledge), exploration (carrying out exploration activities to create new models), explanation (summarizing knowledge to deepen the concept), refinement (understanding examples, agreeing with the meaning), evaluation (sorting out and summarizing the return to the core concepts), and extension (connecting the theory with the reality to promote the extension of the concept), to help students stimulate the learning process. Concept extension, to help students stimulate the desire to learn, actively participate in the new knowledge, explore new activities, explain new concepts, speech simple hack, clear organization, learning, thinking and using coherent, knowledge, action, and belief in unity. This deepens students' understanding of knowledge and concepts, guides students to discover, explore, and solve problems in real situations, and students pay more attention to the process of knowledge formation, the knowledge structure of the series, and the generalization of the knowledge system. It fully improves the classroom effect and learning efficiency, promotes the overall development of students as a whole, and enhances the core literacy of students in the discipline of biology, to realize the purpose of the new college entrance examination reform.

A Developing Competency of High-School Physical Education Teacher Model in Eastern Guangdong Province

Background and Aim: With the development of the comprehensive reform of China's new college entrance examination, Guangdong province has proposed higher requirements for high school physical education teachers. The objectives of this research were: (1) To explore the components of competence of high school physical education teachers. (2) To construct the competency model of high school physical education teachers in eastern Guangdong. and (3) To propose the guidelines for developing competency of high school physical education teachers in eastern Guangdong. Materials and Methods: This research was divided into three Phases: (1) Exploring the components of high school physical education teachers' competence. In this Phase, the literature, the in-depth interview of 15 experts, and the Delphi method of two rounds of consultation with 17 experts were adopted. (2) Questionnaire distribution and collection. The questionnaire was adopted. There were 1526 high school physical education teachers in Eastern Guangdong, and the sample size for this research was 308 according to Krejcie and Morgan's (1970) sampling table. (3) Data analysis: Descriptive Statistical Analysis, Exploratory Factor Analysis, and Confirmatory Analysis in mathematical statistics were used to analyze the collected data. Data analysis includes mean value, standard deviation analysis, and content analysis. Result: (1) The competency model of high school physical education teachers in eastern Guangdong consisted of 9 dimensions and 38 variables. Namely, The RIC had six variables, IGC had four variables, TOS had five variables, SK had six variables, PC had five variables, IR had three variables, PQ had three variables, TSR had three variables, and PD had three variables. (2) 38 guidelines for developing competency of high school physical education teachers in eastern Guangdong were proposed from 9 dimensions. Conclusion: (1) The competency model of high school physical education teachers in eastern Guangdong was composed of 9 dimensions and 38 variables. (2) There were 38 guidelines for developing competency of high school physical education teachers in eastern Guangdong.

Study on the Problems and Countermeasures of High School Students' Subject Selection under the New College Entrance Examination Reform in Hubei Province

In 2014, China implemented a comprehensive reform of the college entrance examination. Since then, Hubei Province has implemented the "New College Entrance Examination", which adopts the "3+1+2" subject selection program, students independently choose subjects on the basis of language, mathematics and foreign languages. Students are required to choose one subject from History and Physics, and then two subjects from Ideology and Politics, Geography, Chemistry and Biology to form their own examination subjects. This new teaching mode breaks through the shortcomings of the traditional division of arts and sciences, which cannot fully respect students' individual differences and independent choices, and allows students to choose suitable subjects according to their own interests and needs, so as to achieve the goal of comprehensive and individual development. Since the implementation of the new college entrance examination reform program, the new round of college entrance examination reform has attracted extensive attention from experts and scholars about the new college entrance examination reform. These researches are mainly concentrated in Zhejiang and Shanghai, and most of them are researches on students' curriculum and curriculum reform. By combing the relevant literature, this paper finds that the current situation of curriculum selection in China's general high schools is not optimistic, and there are many problems that need to be discovered and solved by us. In addition, there are fewer studies on the "3+1+2" college entrance examination reform program in Hubei Province. In view of the different curricula in different provinces, we must study the curriculum of general high schools in Hubei Province in depth and analyze the problems, so as to put forward corresponding countermeasures for the curriculum of general high schools in Hubei Province.

The Impact of Family Background on Subject Selection in Senior Secondary School Students in the Context of the Reform of College Entrance Examination: An Empirical Study Based on Survey Data from Zhejiang Province

Subject selection is one of the key components in the new college entrance examination system. This study analyzed the data from a sample survey of college entrance examination participants in Zhejiang Province between 2017 and 2020 using descriptive statistics, factor analysis, cross analysis, and binary logistic regression in an effort to research into the impact of family background on subject selection and academic achievements in senior secondary school students. Research findings showed that: (i) Students from families of higher social and economic status were more likely to be academically high-achieving; (ii) Student family background had a significant impact on their subject selection, specifically represented by a positive effect of home economic capital on student choice of subjects requiring higher learning costs, a positive effect of family perception of the importance of mathematics, physics, and chemistry on student choice of science subjects, and a positive effect of family cultural environment on student choice of liberal arts subjects; (iii) Personal factors such as gender and academic results are crucial for students’ decisions on subject selection, with male and high-performing students showing preferences for science subjects.

Problems and countermeasures of comprehensive quality evaluation of middle school students

With the deepening of the new college entrance examination reform, the comprehensive quality evaluation has attracted more and more attention, and has become the focus in the eyes of students, parents, educators and related scholars. Making full use of the promotion function of comprehensive quality evaluation can promote the promotion of middle school students' ability and quality development. However, there are also some problems in the comprehensive quality evaluation of middle school students, which need to be solved. Therefore, in this paper, through the literature, the comprehensive quality evaluation, the study found that the comprehensive quality evaluation has certain problems, such as the understanding of comprehensive quality evaluation function orientation, part of the comprehensive quality evaluation index operability is not strong, the comprehensive quality evaluation play inadequate, this paper puts forward the countermeasures of comprehensive quality evaluation.

Design and Development of High School English Elective Courses based on the Reform of New College Entrance Examination

Design and Development of High School English Elective Courses based on the Reform of New College Entrance Examination

The History of the National College Entrance Examination Reform and its Impact on Social Mobility

The National College Entrance Examination is an indispensable part of Chinas education system. There is also a lot of discussion about the college entrance examination. However, the summary of the reform process of the college entrance examination and the analysis of the impact of policies on social mobility in different periods often ignore the first 17 years and the stage of the Cultural Revolution. Therefore, this paper makes a complete policy summary of the college entrance examination, and analyzes the different attributes of social mobility under different policies. These analyses are based on a detailed dissection of the policy and relevant data as supporting material. Finally, the following conclusions are drawn. The dual-track system of education and district-based college entrance examinations from 1949 to 1967 contributed to low social mobility during this time period. During the Cultural Revolution, more rural students went to the cities. However, they often return to their hometowns after finishing their university studies, forming a special phenomenon of mobility. The subsequent single-track system, university enrollment expansion, and the new college entrance examination reform all took equity as the reform goal. However, these reforms often have the opposite effect due to the huge disparity between urban and rural areas. It is worth noting that these deficiencies have been noticed and relevant measures have been implemented.

A Review of the Research of Summary Writing under the Background of New College Entrance Examination in China

After the new college entrance examination reform, summary writing has been formally used in college entrance examination writing in China. This new question type has triggered many scholars and front-line teachers' research and discussion. In order to further understand the current research status of summary writing in China, this paper collates and analyzes the literature related to summary writing in Foreign Language Teaching in Primary and secondary Schools (middle school papers), English Teaching and Research in Primary and Secondary Schools and the core journals of CNKI from 2015 to 2022.The findings are as follows: (1) The publication of literature related to summary writing increased explosively after 2016, but fell back in the last two years;(2) Most of the research methods are non-material research;(3) The research content is mainly teaching practice inquiry. Based on the analysis results, this paper summarizes and discusses the existing problems in the research of summary writing.

Two-phase tabu search algorithm for solving Chinese high school timetabling problems under the new college entrance examination reform

Upon the latest reform to the college entrance examination in China (i.e., Gaokao), high schools began implementing an optional class system. Under this scheme, students’ time slots become complex, thereby increasing the difficulty in formulating a suitable timetable from the available ones. To address this problem, the course-scheduling model was improved. On the basis of the original hard constraints, the “concurrent group” was considered, and the softer constraints were regarded as optimization goals, such as “teaching plans synchronously”, “no idle periods in the timetables of teachers”, and “evenly distributed lessons”. Given these soft constraints, the model becomes more practical. In this study, a two-phase tabu search algorithm was proposed to solve the problem. The proposed algorithm uses the characteristics of the graph coloring model to eliminate redundant calculations in the neighborhood search process, thereby effectively improving computational efficiency. Fifteen practical instances of different scales were selected for testing to verify the effectiveness of the algorithm. The proposed algorithm can formulate high-quality available timetables (The average satisfaction rate of soft constraints is more than 71%) in a short period.

A Comparative Study of College Entrance Examination between China and the UK

The reform of China's new college entrance examination (CEE) is one of the key topics of current research. Some researchers found that there is still a gap between the ideal and the reality of the current CEE reform, but there is still a lack of unified explanation for the details. Therefore, this paper elaborates on the mode of CEE in China and the UK, advantages and disadvantages of CEE reform between China and the UK, and the orientation of China’s CEE reform and the UK’s CEE reform. By comparing the CEE in China and the UK, this study finds that there are still many deficiencies in the implementation of the reform of the national CEE in China. For instance, the problem of inadequate instructional resources in the shift system, students do not have absolute autonomy in choosing subjects and so on. The CEE in China can take lessons from the UK’s CEE in terms of the selection of examination subjects, composition of the CEE, and the implementation of “shift system” on the premise of meeting China's actual conditions, and constantly improve the reform of the national CEE in China.

Impact of the New College Entrance Examination Policy on Students' Access to Higher Education in Shanghai

Since the most recent round of college entrance examination reform was introduced in China, some researchers have discovered that the implementation of the new college entrance examination (NCEE) policy has brought about several impacts and challenges for teachers and students. However, as the reform is still being implemented, there is a lack of further explanation and knowledge of the underlying mechanisms and scope of impact. Because of this, this article investigates how Shanghai's NCEE policy has affected students' access to higher education by gathering data through semi-structured interviews and analyzing it qualitatively and inductively. The NCEE policy has increased students' autonomy in the subject selection, decreased academic pressure, and contributed to their overall and individualized development, according to interviews with three students and in-service high school teachers who took the exam. Teachers' teaching and class management patterns have also become more flexible and varied under the new class allocation system. This highlights the need for early career planning for students to lessen their concern about subject selection as well as the pressing need for adequate career development assistance and information for personal development decisions. There is still more research to be done on specific strategies that high school teachers might take to improve their administration and instruction under the new class placement paradigm.

New College Entrance Examination Reform in the Zhejiang Province of China

New College Entrance Examination Reform in the Zhejiang Province of China

Research on the Consistency between English Curriculum Standards and Reading Questions under the Background of the New College Entrance Examination

Under the background of the new curriculum standard and the new college entrance examination reform, the consistency between the two has become one of the core issues of English educators. “SEC” consistency analysis mode is used to construct a consistency analysis framework. The consistency of the new curriculum standard and the new college entrance examination paper I from 2020 to 2022 is analyzed from the dimensions of overall consistency, cognitive level and content theme. The results show that, the consistency between the two is high on the whole; The three sets of test papers have the same focus on the cognitive level, but the scope is not comprehensive and the proportion is unbalanced; The focus of the three sets of test papers in the content theme is the same, but the proportion is unbalanced. Therefore, it is suggested that the English reading proposition of the college entrance examination should be based on the curriculum standard and balance the proportions of both cognitive level and content theme; English teachers in senior high school should study the curriculum standard, and the reading questions of the college entrance examination, to clarify the cognitive level and content theme requirements, then adjust the direction of reading teaching.

Research on the Problems and Countermeasures of Ordinary Senior High School Career Planning Education under the Background of the New College Entrance Examination

Under the background of China's college entrance examination reform, high school career planning education is very important. Career planning education in high school is crucial to the development of students' life. Educators guide students to make effective plans and stimulate students' internal drive to make progress. It is an education that is related to the development direction and life-long happiness of students. Its core goal is to guide students to become adults and make contributions to society while realizing self-development. In this context, schools must do a good job in career planning education, so that students can make reasonable choices based on their own actual conditions, based on a full understanding of abilities and specialties, determine the majors they will apply for in the future, clarify their goals, and avoid selective errors. Students can develop better and meet the requirements of scientific talent selection.

Exploration on the Cultivation of Senior High School Japanese Teachers in Colleges and Universities

With the deepening of foreign language curriculum reform in primary and secondary schools and the reform of multilingual foreign language college entrance examination, there has been a "Japanese craze for national college entrance examination". However, compared with the rapid growth of the number of candidates for the college entrance Japanese examination, the number of Japanese teachers in senior high schools is still significantly insufficient, and the cultivation of Japanese teachers in colleges and universities is still in its infancy. Based on "the knowledge requirements of Interpretation of Japanese Curriculum Standards", "the experience of front-line teachers" and "the expectation of Japanese candidates for the college entrance examination", this study believes that colleges and universities should cultivate senior high school Japanese teachers from the following aspects: (1) the curriculum should pay attention to interdisciplinary; (2) cultivate Japanese teaching ability in practice; (3) pay attention to Japanese education in senior high schools and the college entrance Japanese examination; (4) cultivate positive psychological quality.

Analysis of English teaching in Jinzhou City-take Yixian High School as an example

Under the background of the new curriculum reform, the importance of English Teaching is becoming more and more prominent, and the teachers are always exploring the efficient English teaching mode. However, with the introduction of the new college entrance examination English reform and the double reduction policy, the disadvantages of the traditional high school English teaching mode of middle and high school English connection fault and other disadvantages have also emerged. Starting with the new college entrance examination reform background, this paper discusses the new scheme of English teaching in Liaoning Province.