Is it Possible to Incorporate Comprehensive Evaluation into College Admissions System in China? An Analysis with a Historical Perspective

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10.2991/ermm-15.2015.5How to use a DOI?

Keywords

National College Entrance Exam (Gaokao), examination, comprehensive evaluation, rule of law

Abstract

This paper focused on the history of Chinese College Entrance Examination. We found that the college enrollment system in China relies heavily on standardized assessment as a single admission criteria, which has resulted in many unintended educational and social consequences. Over the past 30 years since Gaokao was reinstituted, China has been trying to incorporate comprehensive evaluation into college admissions system. However, the new enrollment practices, such as unripe system, independent-enrollment system, and comprehensive evaluation, have been questioned for educational equality and fairness. From a historical and comparative perspective, whether comprehensive evaluation is able to play an important role in college admissions depends on that the right to education and equality of education are guaranteed and that the rule of law is well established and implemented.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Weifeng Chen
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TI  - Is it Possible to Incorporate Comprehensive Evaluation into College Admissions System in China? An Analysis with a Historical Perspective
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