The Design, Evaluation And Implications Of Australian Inquiry History Assignments

Since the new curriculum reform,in the face of the sound of quality education and core quality,the original concept of homework in China has been unable to meet the needs of the new situation.As an important part of high school teaching,history homework is a necessary means to achieve the curriculum objectives.With the introduction of new curriculum standards and new textbooks,it is urgent to follow the reform trend,update the concept of homework,and innovate the way of homework.As the saying goes: a stone from another mountain can attack a jade.Under the background of globalization,it is feasible to draw on the excellent experience of other countries and learn from them.This paper tries to provide reference and help for our country’s homework reform from the perspective of Australian high school history homework.The article consists of three parts.The first chapter analyzes the status and function of historical work in Australian curriculum structure,teaching and evaluation system through literature research.The second chapter,based on the firsthand operation data of Queensland state,carries out theoretical analysis and case study.This paper introduces the specific characteristics of the exploratory historical work from the aspects of design,evaluation and field trip,and extracts the implementation experience.The last chapter discusses the problems of history homework in high schools in China,and provides effective Suggestions for promoting the reform of history homework and the transformation of unit teaching under the new curriculum reform.The two main lessons of the Australian history assignment are the "inquiry function" and the "feedback function".The former experience comes from the perspective of design,which suggests that the design of historical homework in China should pay full attention to the exploration function.The aim of the assignment should be the students’ lifelong development.The content of the assignment should cultivate the problem consciousness and stimulate the enthusiasm of inquiry.Homework forms and resources should be diversified and open.In addition,also need to pay attention to the work method and format of the normative,scientific.The latter experience belongs to the evaluation category,which suggests that our country must pay attention to the feedback and promotion function of the operation evaluation,and reflect the reliability and validity of the evaluation.The core guarantee of evaluation validity is to make evaluation gauge,divide evaluation dimension and define evaluation criterion.The key means of evaluating reliability is to attach importance to the process evaluation,construct the multi-evaluation subject,and establish the scientific and fair evaluation supervision and guarantee mechanism.Under the influence of the concept of developmental evaluation,Chinese teachers should also change the way of traditional homework correction and make use of the advantages of comments,reviews,secondary or multiple evaluations to achieve the development goals of "promoting teaching by evaluation" and "promoting learning by evaluation".In addition,this paper also briefly discusses the significance of the "teaching evaluation integration" model in Australia to the unit teaching in China.I hope the author’s shallow discussion can provide some ideas and help for the update of homework design and the change of evaluation method under the new curriculum reform concept.