Is the present school system of knowledge assessment correspondent to modern education ?

1. Is the present school system of knowledge assessment correspondent to modern education? performed Shvaleva Maria group -1-080114

3. Good- afternoon, dear teachers and students. I am glad to see you. Let me introduce myself. My name is Maria Shvaleva. I came from Kazakhstan. I have always dreamt of studying in Moscow and at last I am here. I am a first year student of Moscow Shoes Modeling and Marketing college. One of my favourite subjects is English. I am fond of learning foreign languages. It` s not only a hobby. My future profession of an accountant will be connected with English as well.

5. As I am a teenager I read a lot about the rights of teenagers. While studying teenagers` rights on education I got interested in the system of schoolchildren knowledge assessment. Do pupils have rights to have their knowledge proper measured and assessed? So, my theme sounds like this: Is the present school system of knowledge assessment correspondent to modern education?

8. It was Germany which was the first to start assessing pupils` knowledge. In Russia it happened in 1737, during the reign of Anna Ioanovna. It`s interesting to note there were different scales of knowledge assessment in Russia 3-, 5- and 8-, 10-,12-point ones. And only 5-point system was officially adopted in 1837 by the Ministry of Еducation. «1» — poor knowledge; «2» — satisfactory; «З» — enough; «4» — good; «5» — excellent. And it is still being used in the majority of Russian schools and colleges.

9. Teachers and psychologists are sure that a school mark must: • correspondent to teaching programs, t.i. be valid; • provide feedback: give a pupil information of his success and failure in studying; give a teacher information of the achieved purposes; • be a form of pupil encouraging but not a form of punishment; • promoteformationanddevelopmentofstudents`self-esteem.

10. In 1990- es, teachers started realizing shortcomings of the existed knoledge evaluation system and in different educational institutions of Russia new approaches to evaluation of students cognitive activity were tested. • The main idea was in the transmission from 5-point to many point system as in other foreign countries.

11. Modern world evaluation system • In the majority of world countries there is a • wider mark scale from 6 in Poland to 100 point in Japan. Lithuania, Moldavia, Byelorussiausea 10 pointevaluationsystem. • InGreatBritaintheyhaveaverbalevaluationofpupil`sactivity. Itgivesanopportunitytopresentadetailedcharacteristicofapupil. • The majority of colleges and secondary schools in the USA use a literal system to assess pupil`s progress in study. In the system A means “excellent”, B- “good”, C – “satisfactory”, D – “poor”, F – “failure”.

13. As far as I could understand, the relevance of the problem of learning results evaluation is associated in recent years with the introduction of the Federal State Educational Standard at primary and secondary school. • Psychologists, teachers and, of course, we, students, consider that in new conditions the outdated evaluation system should be reformed because it has drawbacks:

14. Drawbacks of 5-point system Frommypointofview, themaindrawbackofthecurrent5-pointsystemisthatthemarkbecomespupil`saim,t.i. “five” doesn`t always represent excellent knowledge. When our teacher gives us “4+”we ask “5 -“ , realizing that in this case the teacher will put only 5 in the register. Besides, the price of “five” is different at different teachers.

15. There were different ideas of how to reform the system. But from psychologists and teachers` point of view 10 point system is the most proper one because it will allow teachers to evaluate the virtual knowledge level of pupils.

16. Thecorrelationof 10-point scaleandthetraditionalscaleofmarks 10-point system Traditional • 10 • 9 • 8 • 7 • 6 • 5 • 4 • 3 • 2 • 1 • 5 • 5 • 4 • 4 • 4 • 3 • 3 • 3 • poor • poor

17. Conclusion I think modern education, teachers` tries to start a new system of knowledge evaluation will encourage scientists to develop new criteria for evaluation of students `s knowledge.

18. Thank you for your attention