Study On Educational Assessment System Of Primary And Secondary Schools In New Zealand

Developing effective educational assessment systems that can contribute to improve Education quality is a priority for any country’s economy and society development in the world. Strengthening the educational assessment to provide education information for every social department to judge, understand and improve the quality of education has become an urgent need for the development of modern education. In order to adapting to the new situation and the new requirements of economic society and the development of education, China’s Ministry of education proposed to vigorously promote the comprehensive education assessment reform of the quality of education in primary and middle schools in china.Now more and more governments are interested in learning from the experience of other countries that have already made the journey (or are in the way) to develop the irassessment system. Compared with other countries, our education assessment started late and our basic education assessment system has not been established. In order to promote China’s primary and secondary education assessment reform and perfecteducation assessment system as soon as possible, we must make good use of the good condition of the education internationalization and learn from the outstanding experience of other countries basing on our national practice.New Zealand not only has one of the most devolved school systems in the world, but also their educational assessment system has been recognized the most efficient in the world by international education society.New Zealand has created a set of effective educational assessment system and their successful experience worthy of our reference.Their subject is extensive heuristic framework; NCEA is considered to be a very flexible assessment system and admit students’ achievementdiversity bya broader perspective and purpose; Their high quality professionalization has been widely recognized by the International Education and this high quality specialization is strengthen by the perfect teacher appraisal system;Their school review has perfect evaluation procedure and comprehensive evaluation index. The thesis is mainly on the comprehensive, systematic study and analysis of New Zealand educational assessment system(including "student assessment",’teacher appraisal","school review"). This thesis summarizes the characteristics and advantages and their problems through analyzing the assessment procedures, standards, indicators of New Zealand education assessment practice in detail, thenon this basis, put forward practical suggestions for China’s primary and secondary educational assessment reform.