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发帖数: 3978 | 1 Emma Vanbergen的BE Education公司在上海，专门安排中国小孩到英美流学。这里撰文
传授上海学生水平世界第一的秘诀，对上海的教学水平赞不绝口。
OECD education report: case study China
It comes as little surprise to me that Shanghai students rate amongst the
world’s best in PISA scores
By Emma Vanbergen
10:30AM GMT 03 Dec 2013
The city’s schools are the most competitive in a country where attaining
top exam results is the sole purpose and aim of education. The reason for
this is quite simple; to gain entry to the next level of the school system
from primary school onwards, schools rely only on testing. The higher ranked
the middle school, high school or university, the higher the requirements
for entry. Thus, from a young age, students get thrown into an endless cycle
of learning, preparing for, and taking exams.
The best students are not in fact, super clever, great thinkers or the world
’s future academics, they are simply extremely hard working, study machines
who memorise and churn out answers for tests in mere minutes. They spend
all their time on nothing but study, revision, homework, 'pre-study’ (a
term I’d never encountered until arriving in China), learning test
techniques, and taking practice papers. Evenings, weekends, and even
holidays are jam-packed with one activity after another with this sole aim
in mind.
In Shanghai this 'cramming’ and out of class study is perhaps taken to
greater extremes due to the considerable financial power of the parents
involved. No expense is spared to insure children get top marks as parents
are desperate to give their child whatever advantage possible at school.
Even teachers play into the exam cycle as they are incentivized with bonuses
and promotions for strong performances by the classes they teach.
Indeed, certain subjects are considered far more important than others. For
example Maths, Science, Chinese and English are the 'core’ subjects of
focus in school.
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