On the Current Teacher Evaluation System in China Analysis Based on Compulsory Education Stage

Abstract

As a kind of value judgment activity, teacher evaluation provides development impetus for teachers’ professional development, guides teachers’ development direction and expands teachers’ professional development path through the functions of encouragement, diagnosis and guidance of evaluation. At this stage, the teacher evaluation system in China’s compulsory education stage has evolved into a multifaceted, multi-angled and developmental evaluation system compared with the previous single, performance-oriented, award-and-punishment evaluation method. But at the same time, there are some defects, such as neglecting the stage of teacher development, valuing the quantity and quality, neglecting the delay of education effect, and valuing the form of evaluation and neglecting the feedback of evaluation. This paper analyses the advantages and disadvantages of the teacher evaluation system in the current stage of compulsory education in China, and the corresponding solutions are proposed. The teacher evaluation system in the compulsory education stage has reference value for teachers’ self-reflection and development to a certain extent. However, the evaluation system also has the disadvantages of neglecting teachers’ self-evaluation, imprecise and unscientific evaluation and inaccurate purpose and positioning, which hinder teachers’ ability and development. In order to bring the role of teacher evaluation in promoting teacher development into full play, people should respect the laws of teacher development stages, combine formative evaluation and summative evaluation, evaluate teachers from multiple dimensions, and the government will provide more financial assistance to improve the teacher development environment. Schools should attach importance to the role of teacher evaluation and feedback.