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Towards the end notes, medium and controls “cleaver”? After the time comes that the recommendations of the decisions. On the highly sensitive issue of student assessment, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem has now all the cards: Minister of Education has, since November 2014, the proposals of the High Council of the programs (CSP). Friday, February 13, she was to receive those of the jury of the national conference on student assessment
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Which of the two will have his ear? The CSP advocates a revolution. By comparison, the tracks of the jury of the national conference on student assessment, arising from two days of discussions organized in December 2014, appear less bold. But the subject divides parents, teachers angry and is politically risky.
The Higher Council of the programs is even advocating the end of the means and coefficients, the replacement notes in a scale of 4-6 levels, a brevet reduced to one final test, removing the personal booklet skills …
The thirty members of the jury of the national conference on the evaluation of students, for their part , reached seven recommendations, including the highest, which is to give the notes to the 6 th included, did not unanimous jury (4 votes against). From the 5 th , the notes would be used to validate a level, to “waypoints” of the course; another form of assessment, unrated, aim to identify student difficulties and fix it. In 1 st and end, traditional notation would be maintained.
Avoid trial laxity
To decide, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem will take its time. His ads are not expected until the spring. The minister warned that the site assessment of students had not “vocation to delete notes, but to make them more precise, exciting and challenging.” His entourage took care to specify, on Friday morning, the minister does not follow the recommendation to delete the notes encrypted until 6 th . All indications are that, on this slippery slope, it will move cautiously.
In his defense, it is not she who has chosen to focus the spotlight on this, but his short-lived predecessor, Benedict Hamon, Minister of Education from April to August 2014. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem inherits this issue in the second part of the mandate, while the popularity of François Hollande has decreased and that disappointment is palpable teachers on several aspects of the political left: school time, priority education, working conditions …
Most importantly, the reform comes at the wrong time. It is time for firmness. In his greetings to the educational world, January 21, the head of state defended the strengthening of “authority” of the master. On the evaluation of students, he felt that “school [was] keep note” . “If the president says, it will be hard to shake practices,” was then noted Christian Chevalier, the union UNSA teachers deemed progressive. In turn, the Minister of Education has muted the word evaluation “benevolent” of students qu’utilisaient its predecessors. As if it was absolutely necessary to avoid trial in laxity.
It must be said that the project on the evaluation of the CSP was immediately raised the challenge to the conservative right and the extreme right. Each accusing the left of breaking the “republican meritocracy” , to undertake a “race to maneuver the bottom” the level of the students. Other reproaching his “post-sixty-huitarde ideology” and its “demagoguery.”
In addition to these policies bursts, the French society is divided. Many of the families still attached to the traditional evaluation system, with its rating of 20. She sees a good barometer to measure the level of students, a vector of information for parents, a tool to motivate students. As a way to confront the competition and select the best.
A system in midstream
In the opposing camp, is accused in Traditional evaluation to be biased, stressful, daunting for fragile students. He is accused, as the sociologist Pierre Merle, “pervert the central missions of School – Education and Training – to the benefit of one of its functions, selection “.
Side teachers, the word ” benevolent “ has annoyed many. “As if the teachers were malicious and were only sack! “ is annoyed François Portzer, the National Union of secondary schools (SNALC), which has already warned that the removal of the notes was a ” casus belli “ and put much teachers in the street. Anyway, changing practice is never easy in a profession that remains strongly committed to its educational freedom.
In reality, however, things are constantly changing. In elementary school, there is little that 20% to 30% of schools that use the encrypted notation, as shown by a report general inspections in 2013. In college, where the culture of the note is anchored other methods are being developed: evaluation skills classes without notes, student self-assessment … In the end, the French system is in midstream. As underlined by the sociologist Nathalie Mons, President of the National Assessment Council of the school system, it “torn between two models and overlays. It is this blend, this motley day of old and new need to ensure consistency in the future “
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