Reflection And Transcendence On Moral Quantitation Evaluation

Mainly influenced by the scientism and the thought of "back to life", moral quantitation evaluation (MQE) is applied in primary and secondary school's moral education widely in China. MQE would turn the "soft task" to the "objective index" which reflects students'moral condition and the achievement of moral education, and so it is positive to the school's discipline and classroom management. But MQE does nothing good to the moral development of students; to the contrary, it may lead some bad results. For example, because of the misunderstanding the nature of morality, students may take moral scores as the goal of moral development, and take moral as the tool to achieve high marks. As a result, students become hypocritical and it's difficult to develop their independent personality. Meanwhile, the educators may pursue some short-term educational goals, and it makes the moral education becomes simplified and superficial. All of that do no good for the moral education.MQE depends on the theory of behavioral psychology. The teachers would control the students'anticipated actions by using MQE. The reason is that students cannot get positive evaluation which is presented as moral scores, unless their behaviors are exactly anticipated by the teacher. The control itself may be positive to the students'everyday behavior and regulation, especially in correcting the wrong deeds of pupils, but it is not helpful to their moral development in any sense. It is proposed in this thesis that MQE is misunderstood and misused in moral education, though it is widely applied and thought to be effective.As one of moral education methods, MQE is not in accordance with the basic characteristics of moral. Moral has at least two meanings. The first, the behaviors are commanded by the moral needs of doer. The second, the behavior is in accordance with the moral standards. Other words, when we judge the behavior is moral or not, we should not only judge it by the moral standards, but also judge it by the moral motivation. MQE takes the behavior in accordance with moral standards as moral behaviors absolutely neglecting the moral motivation. It is proposed in this paper that of standards is over-valued, considering that the goal of education is to bring students a better life. Moral education should put more importance in leading students to aspire to and construct their moral life, developing their healthy independent personality and helping them to learn how to live together; rather than pay more and more attention to moral marks.As a means by the external control, MQE is not an effective tool for students' moral development, or an effective way to the goal of moral education. The more importance it kept in moral education, the further moral education deviates from the goal. MQE should be abandoned and exceeded as a way of outer-control in school moral education. Hence educators should adopt qualification assessment, clarify the boundary of moral, and pay more attention to the teacher evaluation, rather than on the student evaluation.