Abstract:

To understand the quality of basic education, people should develop its descriptive definition instead of a prescriptive or programmatic definition. First, the connotation of educational quality is multi-element, multi-faceted, and it is necessary to establish a systematic view about the quality of education. Second, the core of education quality is the quality of students' development. Third, students’ development should be all-round. Finally, the quality of student development is the result of multiple factors. The theoretical model of basic education quality monitoring and evaluation is a structured presentation of the connotation. It employs CIPO (Context-Input-Process-Output) as the framework, defines educational output from the perspective of students’ development, selects key influencing factors to investigate the various aspects of the quality of education and their relationship, and finally presents the effectiveness of educational factors as the quality of education. China needs to define the quality of basic education by standards, improve the monitoring of key influencing factors, strengthen the follow-up investigation and experimental research on the quality of basic education and construct indexes for the quality of basic education.

Key words: quality of basic education, connotation, monitoring and evaluation, theoretical model