Author(s)

Miaoli Lai ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Wuzhou University, Wuzhou, China

Corresponding Author

Miaoli Lai

ABSTRACT

The "Five Onlys" chronic problems have long constrained educational development, with their derivative utilitarian orientation causing an imbalance in basic education ecology. Issues such as excessive emphasis on exam preparation squeezing out quality education, worship of quantitative indicators damaging the essence of education, and short-term utilitarian pursuits undermining sustainable educational development have made breaking the "Five Onlys" a strategic breakthrough point for deepening fundamental education evaluation reform in the new era. This research systematically constructs a transformation framework for basic education evaluation under the context of breaking the "Five Onlys." At the value level, it achieves a paradigm shift from instrumental rationality to value rationality; methodologically, it promotes reconstruction from a singular quantitative model to a diverse qualitative evaluation system; and at the practical level, it completes a functional transformation from result-oriented diagnosis to development-oriented promotion. These three aspects collectively constitute the transformation framework for basic education evaluation reform. This research establishes a five-dimensional collaborative mechanism for reform implementation and proposes a comprehensive literacy evaluation standard encompassing moral development, academic achievement, and physical and mental health. By leveraging technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence to create intelligent evaluation platforms, it constructs a collaborative advancement mechanism involving government, schools, families, and society, providing crucial support for building a high-quality basic education system.

KEYWORDS

Five Onlys, Basic Education Evaluation, Value Reorientation, Path Reconstruction

CITE THIS PAPER

Miaoli Lai, Value Reorientation and Path Reconstruction of Basic Education Evaluation Reform in the Context of Breaking the "Five Onlys". Transactions on Comparative Education (2025) Vol. 7: 61-67. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2025.070209.

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