考试政策新尝试：美国新罕布什尔州
出国留学网讯，目前美国传统的标准化测试正受到各种争议，一些学校试着改变考试政策，新罕布什尔州的学校推行当地自主设计的考试政策的方案也得到了联邦政府的允许，日趋人性化的考试形式将逐渐在全国范围内推行。
NASHUA, N.H. — A cluster of public school districts in New Hampshire is radically redefining testing and accountability in a first-of-its-kind pilot project approved Thursday by the US Department of Education.
新罕布什尔州的公立学校聚集区NASHUA周四在美国教育部的批准下首次彻底重新定义了测试体制。
At a time when cries of “overtesting” from parents and teachers are growing louder across the nation, and when Congress is working to rewrite the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, the experiment will be watched closely.
在全国教师和家长对过度测评的抗议声越来越大的时候，国会正致力于重新颁布一个名为“No Child Left Behind"的联邦教育法规，此法规在新罕布什尔州的试行将会受到密切关注。
“It fits into a much bigger conversation about ... how we can create a humane assessment system that’s useful to teachers but also useful to states and the federal government for holding schools accountable,” says Julia Freeland, a research fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, based in San Mateo, Calif.
克莱顿克里斯坦森研究所的工作人员Julia Freeland说：“这个试验将引起更多思考和讨论..比如我们怎样才能创造一个既对教师有益又能保持学校责任感的比较人性化的评估系统?”
One of the most promising aspects of the pilot is how it has paid attention to research on developing “intrinsic motivation in learners,” says Kim Carter, executive director of the Q.E.D. Foundation, a nonprofit in Amherst, N.H., that supports competency-based education. “That’s an outcome we have to have.”
Kim Carter说道：“新体制的其中一个优势是它注重对开发学生内在创造力的研究，这也是我们需要的结果”，他主张以能力为基础的教育，是新罕布什尔州一个非营利组织的执行总裁。
Not only does the PACE pilot “reduce the level of testing, which has reached a level of insanity,” says Mr. Schaeffer, but it shifts toward “better measures of what students know and can do.” It “is a potentially significant crack in the wall of government-mandated standardized testing, not just for New Hampshire, but nationally,” he says.
新测试体制不仅能改善已经疯狂化的传统考试，而且可以更好地评估学生的水平。它不仅是新罕布什尔州对政府规定的标准化测试的挑战，也是全国范围内对考试制度的改革和创新。
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