Journal of East China Normal University(Educationa ›› 2011, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (2): 11-18.

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The Pluralism of Educational Value and Educational Evaluation Paradigm Shift

QI Ye-Guo, DU Ying   

  1. East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062
  • Online:2011-06-20 Published:2011-07-27
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Abstract: Educational evaluation has more and more bigger impact on the educational activities, however, the dispute and contradiction in educational evaluation are more and more prominent too, the reason is due to the value basis of educational evaluation, the evaluation based on the powerful subject can’t adapted to the value-pluralism in the educational reality. Educational evaluation paradigm in the past is based on the single value or definite value, modern educational value tend to be pluralism, education evaluation paradigm faces the realistic need of shift completely. This paper analyzes the roots that cause the conflicts of education evaluation, sums up the existing educational evaluation paradigm, puts forward the main ideas for shifting Chinese educational evaluation paradigm.

Key words: educational evaluation, contradiction and conflict, paradigm shift