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China college entrance exam, introduced by the host as the center of teaching-to-the-test criticism.
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Gaokao
China college entrance exam, introduced by the host as the center of teaching-to-the-test criticism.
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The hosts frame Chinese education as a tension between high test performance and criticism of rote pedagogy, Gaokao teaching, rigidity, hierarchy, and cheating.
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Every test, including IQ, SAT, Gaokao, and PISA, fundamentally tests the ability to do well on that test.
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China education has three major goals: mass literacy/numeracy, nationwide political orthodoxy, and merit-oriented distribution of scarce education resources.
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Parents resist reform because they read elite reforms as an attempt to remove the only fair ladder their children have.
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Chinese society trusts test scores over teacher recommendations, qualitative measures, and institutions because Gaokao bypasses low institutional trust.
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Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen is presented as a hopeful experiment because it bypasses Gaokao and uses more holistic admissions.
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"...ubiquitous practice of teaching to the test, teaching specifically to the Gaokao, to the college entrance exam. You have a great deal of criticism..."
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"in the pedagogical system in China, and about the rampant cheating that may result from some of the above. So today we're delighted to..."
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"...the test, including the IQ test, including the SAT, including the Gaokao, which is the National College Interest Examination in China, including the PISA...."
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"So what we have in China is basically a blended model of a confusion system with a Stalinist system. The system has three major..."
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"...-oriented way possible. And that's why we created something called the Gaokao, the National College of Interest Examination. So every child, the moment he..."
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"...this problem with, as soon as you try to reform the gaokao or if you suggest, for example, lowering the percentage of English or..."
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"And during the May 4th era. That's right. And the communist elite, people who run the economy, are concerned that the education system is..."
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"...There's a lack of institutional trust. So the idea of the Gaokao is that it bypasses institutions. It's a test score, right? So the..."
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"...trying to test into these, these universities. So we have the Gaokao and it's very hard to change because parents think that, listen, if..."
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"...university. And what makes the school special is that it bypasses Gaokao. Yeah. It, it emits students based on other criteria, more holistic criteria,..."
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"...and Tsinghua Universities, which have been advocating for reform in the Gaokao missions for the longest time. You know, the 100 other professors wrote..."
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"...So in China, when you apply to university, you take the gaokao, you take an examination, and then based on your test score, you..."
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Shanghai can win PISA and still not prove that its schools are forming whole people.
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