Building Public Trust in National Assessment: The Example of China's NAEQ

Autor/inn/en	Smith, William; Xu, Xiao
Titel	Building Public Trust in National Assessment: The Example of China's NAEQ
Quelle	In: European Journal of Education, 58 (2023) 1, S.23-35 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0141-8211
DOI	10.1111/ejed.12539
Schlagwörter	Trust (Psychology); Pilot Projects; Educational Quality; National Competency Tests; Educational Change; Policy Analysis; Educational Policy; Foreign Countries; International Assessment; Achievement Tests; Secondary School Students; China; Program for International Student Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Bildungsreform; Politikfeldanalyse; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Ausland; Achievement test; Achievement; Testing; Test; Tests; Leistungsbeurteilung; Leistungsüberprüfung; Leistung; Testdurchführung; Testen; Sekundarschüler
Abstract	After eight years of piloting, China's National Assessment of Education Quality (NAEQ) was administered for the first time in 2015. The NAEQ was introduced during the country's transition from exam-oriented to quality-oriented education. The public, in particular parents and students, were required to subscribe to this reorientation. To ensure public support, the government introduced a range of strategies to communicate the objective of the NAEQ and how the public was expected to engage with it and trust the assessment. This study reviewed policy documents, press releases, government administrative documents, and media coverage from the Chinese Ministry of Education to explore strategies used by the government to raise the public's trust in the NAEQ. A total of 169 documents, spanning from the assessment's initial development in 2007 to 2020, were included. Findings identify three main areas of effort to increase public trust in the national assessment: (1) highlighting similarities between the NAEQ and PISA--an assessment that holds high public trust, (2) demonstrating that the NAEQ is an internationally respected assessment, and (3) specifying how the NAEQ aligns with broader aims of quality-oriented education in China. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01