Research on Supporting Educational Policies for Inclusive Assessment System Balancing Educational Equity

Abstract

The "Overall Plan for Deepening the Reform of Education Evaluation in the New Era" has put forward the direction of reform to strengthen the improvement of outcome evaluation, reinforce process evaluation, explore value-added evaluation, and construct an all-encompassing evaluation system. Supportive policies that ensure fairness in assessment cover resource allocation, support and incentives for teachers, compensation for disadvantaged groups, etc. At present, there are still educational disparities in urban and rural areas, between schools, and among different groups. Modifying the evaluation indicators will not address the problem of unfairness at its source. The framework of inclusive evaluation will be used in this paper to study the actual problems of the current evaluation system in terms of fairness, and cooperation among supporting policies and evaluation reform will also be examined. The five parts of the all-encompassing evaluation system are: the direction of evaluation, allocation of resources, teacher placement, compensation mechanism and quality supervision. Through evaluation reform, resources should be allocated to weak links, resources need to be balanced for the fairness of evaluation, compensation policies should address the problem of different starting points, and a governance model that promotes the synergy of evaluation and policies should be established. Based on the above, it is proposed that supervision and assessment of high-quality and balanced education be strengthened; financial support be optimised; teacher rotation and exchange be increased; guarantees for the enrollment of special groups be enhanced; and the application of value-added evaluation in quality monitoring be explored.