Value Orientation Of The Reform Of Entrance Examination System

The system of college entrance examination is regarded as a very importantnational education system in China, which has played great and irreplaceable role inselecting qualified talents for higher education institutions, guiding the teaching andcurriculum reform of schools, working as a platform of promoting the social stratumto flow to realize societys fair environment rationally, promoting school students tostudy hard etc."No reform means No development" has already become a commonunderstanding worldwide nowadays. The system of college entrance examination hasgone through dozens of reforms since the establishment of People’s Republic of China,and especially in recent ten years, has entered the active period of reform again.With the development of pluralism of peoples values day by day, various kinds ofvalues cross, collide here, which make it become focus that all circles pay closeattention to. As an important national education system, what kind of valueorientation the reformers hold has directly restricted the future developing trend ofthe system of college entrance examination. Research documents studied mostlyconcentrate such respects as the fairness, content, method, way of enrollment andadmission of the system of college entrance examination and it is less likely to payclose attention to the essence of the system itself and such profound questions asthe value orientation that the system is made and reformed, etc. which is the mostcrucial, central question of restraining the system of college entrance examinationfrom reforming exactly. On the basis of this, I decided to make the Study on ValueOrientation to the System Reform of College Entrance Examination as the title of mydoctors dissertation finally.This research tries to analyze the system of college entrance examination fromthe view of value philosophy, which hopes to analyze more systematically theessence of the system of college entrance examination as well as its reform, and onthis basis, different value orientations, methodologies of reform of college entranceexamination etc. is further analyzed. The study aims at widening the research field of the system of college entrance examination and making the research results of thesystem reform abundant theoretically. Meanwhile, it also breaks through thebottleneck problems of the college entrance examination reform in practice and putsforward some suggestions for educational policymakers, school administrators andteachers, etc.This dissertation is divided into six parts:Part One is the introduction, which puts forward the question through thedocument survey, mainly building the logic starting point of research, giving conceptsexplanation, considering contents and methods of research, etc.Part Two mainly analyzed the development process and backgrounds as well asreasons of college entrance examination system on the basis of studying historicaldocuments. The history of the college entrance examination system reform is dividedinto5periods by the author, which are named: the period of establishment, periodof Culture Revolution, period of rebuilding, period of initial reform, period ofdeepening reform.Part Three discussed the value orientations of college entrance examinationsystem reform in different periods multi-dimensionally, in which the Stateinterest-based Orientation is turned to Social interest-based one in the system ofenrollment plan, Knowledge-based Orientation is turned to Ability-based one in theadmission system, Efficiency-based Orientation is turned to Fairness-based one in theexamination system, and Tool-based Orientation is turned to People-based one in themanagement system.Part Four analyzed the problems and contradictions of the present systemreform of college entrance examination, and argued that the system of Nationwideunified enrollment plan and individual province admission of college entranceexamination is the key problem in the course of the reform.Part Five theoretically discussed the future value orientation of the systemreform of college entrance examination, which is Selecting Right Candidate for RightCollege or University, from the perspective of existence theory of value by analyzingthe concept of system and the relationship between people and the system of college entrance examination.Part Six puts forward some suggestions for the current system reform of collegeentrance examination on the basis of the value orientation of Selecting RightCandidate for Right College or University, which consists of aspects of inner structureof the system, enrollment plan, admission, way of examination, management, etc.