Standard final exams will replace the entrance exam – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news
Jalal Mousavi, Director General of the Office of Compilation and Management of Educational and Research Documents and Policies of the Science and Technology Headquarters of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, in an interview with Mehr, said about the entrance exam changes since 1402: The Assessment Organization, the Parliamentary Research Center, the Assessment Organization Research Center, and the Ministry of Education had numerous correspondences and conducted comparative studies. We have examined many successful educational systems in the world, for example, Finland does not have a test-based test at all and they make decisions based on their educational background.
Mousavi said that in addition to experts in educational sciences and researchers, we talked to stakeholders in education, university presidents and even entrance exam candidates, adding: “The result of all these conversations was that the test-based test can not be a measure of student ability.” If we look at the successful educational systems in the world, educational education and assessment exams are based on the same school exam, and based on the same results of school exams, universities attract students.
Regarding the suspicions raised about the non-observance of educational justice during the impact of the records and the final exams, he said: “Different cases should be investigated.” One is the issue of fraud, which has been more prevalent in the final exams. We also checked the entrance exam, there were some frauds in the entrance exam, there were cases of fraud that even security agencies entered, there were sales of entrance exam questions, or the candidate used tools such as a camera pen to cheat.
Test-driven test can not be a measure of student competence The Director General of the Office for Compiling and Managing Educational and Research Documents and Policies of the Science and Technology Headquarters of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution added: “We accept that there is fraud in the final exams; But the possibility of cheating in test tests is easier than descriptive tests.
He added: “However, we are obliged to hold the final exams in such a way that the possibility of cheating in them is much less.” The security of the final exam sessions is supposed to be the same as this year, like the security of the 1401 entrance exams and beyond, so that the possibility of fraud is reduced to zero, and this is not very complicated and unattainable.
By academic years we mean only the standardized final exams
Mousavi emphasizes that by academic years we mean only the final final exams; He said: holding this exam will be with the same conditions as holding the entrance exam; If we can provide the necessary standards by 1401; We can assure families that we are holding final exams better than current entrance exams.
“Our education system is descriptive and not test-driven,” he said. Stated: The teacher who teaches teaches descriptive; The tests are descriptive; That is, the student studies for 12 years in a descriptive manner, but we ask him to take a test in which the testing skills are very important.
“Many entrance exam questions require ten to fifteen minutes and can only be solved by knowing the test point,” said the education expert. This means that the student must know the test points to succeed in the entrance exam. In the educational system, we teach the lessons to the student in a descriptive way, but we ask him to answer the test.
We can assure families that we are holding final exams better than current entrance exams Director General of the Office of Compilation and Management of Educational and Research Documents and Policies of the Science and Technology Headquarters of the Secretariat of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution, stating that according to professors and academic deputies, the scientific quality of students entering universities has decreased; He said: “This was because the students were only looking for test-taking skills for the entrance exam; While these testing skills do not benefit our education system; It does not benefit the academic community, nor does it help the volunteer’s personal employment.
Referring to the importance of textbooks, Mousavi said: “In the final exams, more attention is paid to textbooks than the entrance exam;” Therefore, due to the access of all students in the country to textbooks, the final exams are closer to educational justice than the entrance exam.